Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Uncover the biggest secret behind Ronda Rousey's rise as a champion and pioneer of the fight game. Ronda Rousey was the first American woman to win an Olympic medal in judo, and UFC women's bantamweight champion from 2012 to 2015, she was also a professional wrestler in the WWE from 2017 to 2019, returning in 2022 before leaving in 2023. In this conversation Ronda and Steven discuss topics such as, her father’s death by suicide, her eating disorder, abusive relationships with coaches, and the truth about the WWE. 00:00 Intro 02:10 Being Born With A Rare Disease 03:46 Ronda's Struggles as a Child 05:27 Her Father’s Death When She Was A Child 07:35 Finding Out About Her Dad's Suicide 10:38 Ronda's Mother 11:46 What's Been Ingrained in Her as a Kid 13:34 Becoming a Prodigy of Judo 15:59 Her Competitive Nature for Fighting 20:30 Movin in With His Coach At 16 21:55 Her Struggles With Bulimia 24:33 Getting Bullied for Her Physique 25:49 Ronda Competing in the Beijing Olympics 26:30 Lack of Pay 27:01 Our Dark Side Becomes The Driver Of Our Success 29:32 How Her Concussions Affected Her Career 36:15 Defeating People in 60 Seconds 37:43 Having Very Strict/Abusive Coaches 39:56 How Did It Impact You? 42:53 Coaches Crossing the Line... 47:34 What Dana White Said About Ronda 48:55 Why Were You Fighting So Frequently? 50:15 Being The First Woman to Appear on the UFC 50:33 The New Jackie Chang 51:14 UFC 193 Ronda Vs Holly Holm 54:40 How Did You Feel After Losing? 58:14 Suicidal Thoughts 01:00:15 Ronda's Last Fight in the UFC 01:03:13 Her Husband Support During Tough Times 01:06:57 When Did WWE Come In? 01:10:44 Social Media Pressure 01:13:09 Did She Feel Expendable to the WWE? 01:13:30 Vince McMahon and Sexual Allegations 01:16:05 Ronda Suffering Two Miscarriages? 01:20:03 Where Does Her Happiness Come From? 01:27:32 Did Her Traumas Make Her Who She Is Today? 01:31:11 What She Learned From Her Dad? 01:33:04 Last Guest Question You can purchase Ronda’s memoir, ‘Our Fight’, here: https://amzn.to/43OM0P1 Follow Ronda: Twitter - https://bit.ly/4cI3SPP Instagram - https://bit.ly/3J4Tjc3 YouTube - https://bit.ly/3J2Qrwl Watch the episodes on Youtube - https://g2ul0.app.link/3kxINCANKsb My new book! 'The 33 Laws Of Business & Life' is out now - https://smarturl.it/DOACbook Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Sponsors: Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/ Uber: https://p.uber.com/creditsterms Vodafone V-Hub: https://www.vodafone.co.uk/business/sme-business/Steven-Bartlett-Digital-SOS?cid=psoc-ent_li_ebu_/brnd/Stevenbartlett01/aws/11.23/SB Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	People don't know about this.
0:02.0	I had to keep it to see here.
0:04.0	It's really, really difficult. Rhonda you have voted the best female athlete of all time. What was it that made you
0:28.0	the person that sits in front of me today? So when I was a kid it was tough my My dad ended up taking his life when I was eight and in school I got picked on a lot. I actually dropped out when I was 16 and moved away from home to train full time. But a lot of the coaches thought
0:45.5	that being abusive to the athletes is what gave them the best results. My first coach
0:50.2	dislocated my job. People don't know about this, but I'll get concussions all the time.
0:54.6	And every time you get a concussion, it's easier to get another one. So by the time I got into
1:00.1	MMA, I had to be able to finish the person off immediately. It was those experiences
1:05.0	that made me the world champion. And you stacked up a bunch of records including
1:09.1	the fastest ever win, fastest submission, fastest title defense, but then that loss to Holy Home.
1:17.0	Yeah, my whole world turned upside down.
1:22.0	I had to disappear for a while.
1:24.0	And then you decide to move on to the WWE.
1:28.0	You don't have nice things to say about it.
1:30.0	Vince McMahon just created a fundamentally sick environment and I think he still is running the
1:34.0	companies to this day.
1:35.6	Why?
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