5 things you didn't know about Ronda Rousey 

Ronda Rousey's life in the spotlight has been well-documented, the former UFC Champion was chosen for the Olympics team when she was just 17 years old before she then moved on to Strikeforce and then UFC, before she made her way over to WWE earlier this year.

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Rousey has achieved the reputation for being the "Baddest Woman on the Planet" over the past few years but as she fights Nia Jax for the Raw Women's Championship this weekend, it's the perfect time to look back at some of the bigger obstacles that Rousey has overcome over the course of the past three decades.

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#5 Ronda's mother used to wake her up to practice Judo techniques

Ronda Rousey's mother passed on all of her knowledge of the Judo business

Ronda Rousey was part of the Olympic Judo team when she was just 17 years old, and even though she lost the match at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Rousey still became the youngest judoka in the entire Games.

Rousey followed in her mother's footsteps since AnnMaria De Mars was the first American to win a World Judo Championship back in 1984 and she then started to train her daughter.

Rousey started training when she was just 11 years old and it was reported that her mother would wake her up at night to practice techniques and only allow her to return to sleep once she had locked in a submission or managed to escape one of her mothers.

This could be why Rousey looks like such a natural when she's grappling because her mother has been able to pass on all of her knowledge of the business to help her push forward and pursue her Olympic dreams.

#4 Ronda's first visit to A&E wasn't because of an injury

Ronda Rousey has taken many trips to the ER over the years

Ronda Rousey has obviously had a number of injuries throughout the course of her career which have involved her taking a few trips to A&E but Rousey's first visit to the hospital was for a very different reason.

It's reported that Rousey visited the ER when she was much younger because she was playing with Raisinette candies by putting them up her nose and they got stuck.

It would be considered to be quite an embarrassing story now for one of the best female athletes in the world, but it proves that Ronda was a normal child just like everyone else.

#3 Rousey was once suicidal

Ronda Rousey struggled following her loss to Holly Holm

Rousey was once the biggest star in UFC and was the reason that the UFC Women's Division was created, but after years of dominance inside the Octagon, her life came tumbling down in the fall of 2015 when she lost to Holly Holm at UFC 193.

Rousey told ESPN following her loss that she felt suicidal and had no idea how she could come back.

"Honestly, my thought in the medical room, I was sitting in the corner and was like, 'What am I anymore if I'm not this?' Literally sitting there thinking about killing myself. In that exact second, I'm like, 'I'm nothing. What do I do anymore? No one gives a s--- about me anymore without this.'"

Rousey returned to UFC the following year and lost to Amanda Nunes in just 48 seconds at UFC 207, which signaled the end of her UFC career.

#2 She was once living in her car

Ronda Rousey once lived in her car for a few days

Many fans think that Ronda has had an easy life because she was trained by her own mother and entered the Judo world when she was just 11 years old, but she has also struggled herself at numerous times in her life.

When Rousey returned from the Olympic games back in 2008 she revealed that she was forced to live in her 2005 Honda in order to maintain waitress jobs and working the front desk at 24-Hour Fitness.

Rousey said that there was nothing that motivated her more than being homeless and having to work her way out of the position that she found herself in.

Luckily, the situation wasn't as bad as many fans are led to believe since it was an argument that she had with her mother that forced her to live in her car for a few days.

#1 She was born with her umbilical cord around her neck

Ronda Rousey's mic work has been heavily criticised

Ever since Ronda Rousey first picked up a mic in WWE, she has received a lot of negative feedback for her promo work, but there is a reason why Rousey talks too slow on the mic and it's because she was born with her umbilical cord around her neck which affected her speech in the early years of her life.

Rousey had to go through speech therapy and couldn't actually talk in full sentences until she was six years old and has had to work on this over the past few decades. The former UFC Champion wasn't forced to cut many promos when she was in the Octagon, but her weaknesses have been put under a microscope whilst she's been in WWE.

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