She was the first American woman to win an Olympic medal in judo by winning bronze at the Summer Olympics. Rousey began a career in professional wrestling in , signing with WWE, [ 20 ] and debuted at WrestleMania Rousey lost the title in the first women's WrestleMania main event at WrestleMania Rousey returned at the Royal Rumble , winning the women's Royal Rumble match.
After leaving WWE in October , she began wrestling on the independent circuit. Rousey is the only woman to be the champion in both the UFC and WWE as well as the only woman to headline a pay-per-view event in both companies.
Waddell, was a Trinidadian doctor who emigrated to Canada and became one of the first black physicians in North America, while a maternal great-grandmother was born in Caracas , Venezuela. For the first six years of her life, Rousey struggled with speech and could not form an intelligible sentence due to apraxia , a neurological childhood speech sound disorder.
When Rousey was three years old, her mother and father moved from Riverside, California, to Jamestown, North Dakota , to obtain intensive speech therapy with specialists at Minot State University. Rousey began judo with her mother at the age of Rousey trained with her mother until she was 13, when she accidentally broke her mother's wrist. Rousey lost in her first match to eventual silver medalist Claudia Heill in the 63 kg bracket. In April , she became the first female U.
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Later that year, the year-old won the bronze medal at the Junior World Championships , becoming the first U. In February , Rousey moved up to 70 kg where she ranked as one of the top three women in the world. She lost her quarterfinal to the Dutch ex-world champion Edith Bosch but qualified for a bronze medal match through the repechage bracket. Rousey defeated Annett Boehm by Yuko to win a bronze medal Judo offers two bronze medals per weight class.
