Memory Lane: Ronda Rousey Voted Best Female Athlete Ever

[58miles]

The Good Old Days:

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Ronda Rousey Tops Serena Williams, Voted Best Female Athlete Ever

By Susie Arth | Sep 9, 2015
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Ronda Rousey remains undefeated. And we're talking beyond the Octagon here.

The UFC bantamweight champion received 52 percent of the vote to beat Serena Williams in the final of the Best Female Athlete Bracket. More than 13,000 votes were cast in the final matchup.

Williams, the No. 1 seed, beat Cheryl Miller, the team of Kerri Walsh Jennings and Misty May-Treanor, Babe Didrikson Zaharias and Steffi Graf to reach the final.

Rousey, unseeded, took down Missy Franklin, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Diana Taurasi and Florence Griffith Joyner before topping Williams.


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Finals

One works her magic on the tennis court, the other in the Octagon. Both fill their opponents with dread and their fans with wonder.

It's top-seeded Serena Williams vs. unseeded Ronda Rousey in the finals of the Best Female Athlete Bracket.

Both women have sailed through the competition so far. Williams has dispatched the likes of Steffi Graf, Cheryl Miller and Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Rousey has cruised past champions such as Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Diana Taurasi and Florence Griffith Joyner.

Now only one can win, and you get to decide.

Ronda Rousey remains undefeated. And we're talking beyond the Octagon here.

The UFC bantamweight champion received 52 percent of the vote to beat Serena Williams in the final of the Best Female Athlete Bracket. More than 13,000 votes were cast in the final matchup.

Williams, the No. 1 seed, beat Cheryl Miller, the team of Kerri Walsh Jennings and Misty May-Treanor, Babe Didrikson Zaharias and Steffi Graf to reach the final.

Rousey, unseeded, took down Missy Franklin, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Diana Taurasi and Florence Griffith Joyner before topping Williams.

 

[Son Peyote]

 

[KoreanZawmbie]

SMH...Very disrespectful to a true A-level athlete in S.Williams

 

[ALAN PARTRIDGE]

I think right now even Serena would beat Ronda in a fight.

 

[Co-Co Zola]

No one cares about Female athletes.

People don't overly like Serena because she's a muscular Black Woman who destroys slim White Women. So no surprise she got beat out by Rowdy in a poll.

Hindsight is 20-20, their is nothing worse than knob jockeys who crawl out after all is said and done and act like they're some superior intellect who had it all figured out all along. Losers.

Back when this poll happened Ronda was at the height of her fame, she was unbeaten and seemed unstoppable. Of course people voted for her, no one could for tell what would happen in her next 2 fights.

 

[tdko]

Memory*
Your spelling is worse than ronda's fighting ability.

 

[gmr7494]

Biggest smoke and mirrors job in the history of sports

 

[KingBeef]

Member???

 

[KeepItRealist]

Serena Williams isn't the best female athlete ever either, not even in tennis.

Women's tennis had depth on par with WMMA when she dominated. Same with the other dominant mannish female tennis players too, but still.

 

[Jim Cozad Jr.]

I think right now even Serena would beat Ronda in a fight.

There's no way Ronda could handle that explosiveness...

 

[CrimsonFan]

Member???

Ooo member Ronda Rousey?

 

[The Moloko man]

No one cares about Female athletes.

People don't overly like Serena because she's a muscular Black Woman who destroys slim White Women.

anyone heard that rumor that Serena is for real a dude(srs)

 

[ALAN PARTRIDGE]

There's no way Ronda could handle that explosiveness...

 

[No Mas McGee]

ronda vs serena...rumble in the jungle

 

[58miles]

No one cares about Female athletes.

People don't overly like Serena because she's a muscular Black Woman who destroys slim White Women. So no surprise she got beat out by Rowdy in a poll.

Hindsight is 20-20, their is nothing worse than knob jockeys who crawl out after all is said and done and act like they're some superior intellect who had it all figured out all along. Losers.

Back when this poll happened Ronda was at the height of her fame, she was unbeaten and seemed unstoppable. Of course people voted for her, no one could for tell what would happen in her next 2 fights.

Wrong there were plenty of people at the time not caught up in the Ronda hype who realized just how silly it was for Ronda to even be in the conversation for female GOAT. What's happened since proved how right people like myself were.

 

[Liquid Smoke]

So Serena is in the poll but Venus isn't? I guess they thought people couldn't handle 2 Williams at one time.

 

[Teppodama]

anyone heard that rumor that Serena is for real a dude(srs)

Non-binary

 

[Corleone187]

lol such a sham

honestly the UFC should face a class action for grossly misrepresenting a product to swindle little girls!

 

[ClosetVitorFan]

Remember when she said she could beat Mayweather and Cain?? Lmao.

 

[58miles]

lol such a sham

honestly the UFC should face a class action for grossly misrepresenting a product to swindle little girls!

The Ronda Rousey sham would never have been possible if it was just the UFC. What really made it work was the mainstream media and feminists helping promote the Ronda sham.