Ronda Rousey's My Fight/Your Fight
Ronda Rousey There may be no character more polarizing for mixed martial arts fans than Ronda Rousey. The undefeated Ultimate Fighting Championship women’s bantamweight titleholder embodies a love-me-or-hate-me shoulder shrug, her overwhelming sense of purpose, reactions she readily expects, embraces and dismisses.
This contrast is on full display in “My Fight/Your Fight,” a personal look at the professional highs and lows of the MMA star. With co-writer Burns Ortiz, who also happens to be the champion’s sister, Rousey details the good, the bad and the ugly. The ability to cut through the noise that allows Rousey to open the old closet and dust off whatever she finds , including stories of failed relationships, the hollow sense of happiness after medaling at the Olympics and …show more content…
If you are familiar with her public persona, you will no doubt find written slights to the usual suspects. There is an entire chapter titled, “You Will Never Win a Fight by Running Away,” in which she likens point fighting to “fighting a lawyer.” In another section, she describes the first time she watched a women’s MMA fight with a group of men, relishing the fact that “they were beautiful, yes, but the guys didn’t talk about them like they did the ring girls … who they talked about as if they were strippers.” (Rousey 107)
Overall, “My Fight/Your Fight” is a compelling glimpse into the mind and the mirror of MMA’s most feared woman. It makes you feel empowered by the accomplishments and overcomings that one person has gone through. She puts challenges and hardships into perspective and finds the good in the bad. This book is a must
This contrast is on full display in “My Fight/Your Fight,” a personal look at the professional highs and lows of the MMA star. With co-writer Burns Ortiz, who also happens to be the champion’s sister, Rousey details the good, the bad and the ugly. The ability to cut through the noise that allows Rousey to open the old closet and dust off whatever she finds , including stories of failed relationships, the hollow sense of happiness after medaling at the Olympics and …show more content…
If you are familiar with her public persona, you will no doubt find written slights to the usual suspects. There is an entire chapter titled, “You Will Never Win a Fight by Running Away,” in which she likens point fighting to “fighting a lawyer.” In another section, she describes the first time she watched a women’s MMA fight with a group of men, relishing the fact that “they were beautiful, yes, but the guys didn’t talk about them like they did the ring girls … who they talked about as if they were strippers.” (Rousey 107)
Overall, “My Fight/Your Fight” is a compelling glimpse into the mind and the mirror of MMA’s most feared woman. It makes you feel empowered by the accomplishments and overcomings that one person has gone through. She puts challenges and hardships into perspective and finds the good in the bad. This book is a must