Don't get between Ronda Rousey and her favourite iced beverage.
There’s plenty to love about superstar and UFC champ Ronda Rousey.
Not only is she the best fighter in the world (legitimately, based on pound-for-pound rankings) and the highest paid star in the UFC, she is obsessed with food.
In an interview for Self magazine, she revealed that as a teenager, she would challenge boys to fights so she could buy herself frappuccinos.
“After school, my friend and I would go to the Promenade [in Santa Monica], where a lot of shady characters hung out. I loved Frappuccinos, but I only got $5 a day for lunch. If I ate, that meant I didn’t have enough money for a Frappuccino. So we would go over to these kids and say, “I bet you $10 I could beat up any one of you.” There were always some guys who could use the money. We’d fight and I’d do something to get them to give up, and they’d give us $10 and we’d go get Frappuccinos…. That was, like, my side gig for a little while.”
Now that the multi-millionaire can afford as many icy beverages as she wants, her favourite food obsession has shifted to a post-match ritual.
“I eat about 50 hot wings. I love hot wings. After my last fight, one of the UFC owners flew in a private chef from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro so that he could make me hot wings, because there are no hot wings in Rio! That’s how important they are to me.”
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