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Indy booking notes:

-Houston Alexander vs. Gilbert Yvel at 205 lbs. on March 30 in Nebraska for Resurrection Fighting Alliance

-Nate Marquardt released by BAMMA

-Kendall Grove vs. Minowaman tomorrow night/early Saturday morning from Hawaii for Pro Elite on HDNet

-Bob Sapp vs. James Thompson on March 11 in India for Super Fight League debut show

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I think I am the most dangerous unarmed woman on the planet. [Looks to audience] I could literally kill every single person in this room with my bare hands if I had them one at a time. I wouldn’t do that, but I’m just saying, I could do it.

Oh Ronda Rousey :wub:

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All aboard the Rodna Rousey love train!!

Everyone talks about how awesome the Olympics are, but you know what? After the Olympics they give you ten grand a handshake. And you know what, it costs way more than ten grand to get there. The Olympics didn't give a damn about me after I was done. And I gotta do what I gotta do to make a living. If I gotta pose for some magazines...I'm not gonna show my nipples or asshole or anything like that but if I gotta walk around at the beach in a bikini, why not let someone take a picture of me and put it in a magazine?

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All these companies make millions and millions of dollars to put the Olympic rings as like a logo. I walked into 24 hour fitness the other day. They're a multi-million dollar sponsor of the Olympic games. And they have all these Olympic rings all over the place. They know I'm an Olympic medalist. They know I'm an Olympian. They will not let me in there without paying. I have to pay to go into 24 hour fitness. I have to buy every single Gatorade bottle. That money does not go to the athletes. That money goes into a lot of really corrupt national governing bodies that bounce that money around, they give it to all their friends, and almost none of that money makes it to the athletes. USA Judo is the most corrupt organizations ever, and they hated me because I was not afraid to say it, and they always gave me as little funding as possible.

At the 2007 worlds they sent more officials and more people from their organization, and then they made most of the athletes pay for themselves to go. They only sponsorerd three athletes to go, and they sent like eleven different people. And I remember at the Pan Am games, or Pan-Am champsionships in wherever we were at, a bunch of the athletes had to pay for themselves to go and then they flew some PR girl at the last minute. Thousands of dollars just to show up and hang around. And they're sending all their people first class, and they're spending all this, you look at their budget and they're spending thousands of dollars on entertainment for each other. All the people that work for this organization are sitting in these amazing hotels, and the athletes, I'm sitting in a hut. A chalet in the middle of Belgium.

All that money and none of it goes to the athletes, and the second that you're done fighting they just give you a kick in the ass out the door. There's nothing set in place to help the athletes after they're done. What are you doing while you're training your whole life? You're not getting as much education as you could. You're not getting as much work experience as you could. And so what happens after the Olympics Is that you have all these athletes that have no work experience, no education, and they have no health. And it's all bullshit.

And that's why I'm like screw everyone's idea of 'oh what sports are supposed to be like'. I did what sports were supposed to be like, and I was living in my car. So you know what, fine. I'm gonna talk a bunch of shit. I'm gonna pose in a couple of pictures. And I'm gonna break a couple of girl's arms, and I'm not gonna feel the least bit sorry about it because you know what? At least I can feed my dog.

Women's MMA is and will always be a niche market in an already niche market but you gotta love Ronda.

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Busy night last night. Rolles Gracie submitted Bob Sapp in Jakarta, Jamie Varner beat Drew Fickett in 40 seconds, Chase Gormley ground out a unanimous decision and Marianna Kheyfets remained unbeaten.

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That Kheyfets fight was kinda weird, as at the end of the round, Clark took down Kheyfets, seemed to be fine, never received any shots yet when they got up her eye was as big as a tennis ball, no idea where it came from, my theory is she caught herself while she was G&P'ing Kheyfets.

Not bothered though, love me some Kheyfets thanks to WMMA.

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Watching Strikeforce. Great gutsy performance by Misaki, now Thomson/Noons which should be explosively fun.

Looking forward to the main event most though.

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Looks like Rousey just broke Meisha Tate's arm. Mostly due to Tate's refusal to tap out though.

Edit: And ew, watching the replay it looks like the first arm bar popped her elbow, and she still kept going for another 3 minutes.

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Amazing... and brutal. Ronda Rousey is the best specialist in MMA.

She needs at least eight more armbars before she tops Cody McKenzie and his kimura :shifty:

But yeah, she does have the best gameplan in MMA, 'I'm going to armbar you, I know it, the announcers know it, the crowd knows it and most importantly of all, you know it but there's nothing you can do to stop it'.

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