Our Fight: A Memoir

by Ronda Rousey, Maria Burns Ortiz (With)

Overview

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From New York Times bestselling author and trailblazing athlete Ronda Rousey, an unfiltered chronicle of loss, resilience and finding meaning in life’s journey. 

From the moment she burst onto the MMA scene, Ronda Rousey was unbeatable. She repeatedly strung together back-to-back flawless victories, racking up a collection of records and forever changing the face of sports as the UFC’s first female champion. A superstar in her sport, she transcended athletics, appearing in blockbuster films and becoming a role model for women everywhere. Then, on November 15, 2015, it all came crashing down. 

In OUR FIGHT, Rousey explores the greatest challenge of her life and, ultimately, how she rebuilt her life into something better in the aftermath. She recounts how she replaced her pursuit of perfection with the pursuit of happiness and found an opportunity in disguise amongst the wreckage. Following Rousey’s relatable journey, OUR FIGHT is a courageous narrative of career changes, marriage, motherhood, and facing your fears.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538757390
Publisher:	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date:	04/02/2024
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	78,438
File size:	47 MB
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About the Author

Ronda Rousey has completely transformed the world of martial arts, beginning with a historic bronze medal showing in judo in the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics and, most notably, a record-setting career as the UFC’s first and most dominant female fighter and Bantamweight Champion. She was the first woman inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame, in 2018, the same year she exploded onto the WWE scene, catapulting the women's division towards its first WrestleMania main event in history. The self-proclaimed “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey, Baddest Woman on the Planet, returned to the WWE in January of 2022, four months after giving birth to her daughter, La’akea, to win the Royal Rumble. During her time in WWE, she held the Raw, SmackDown, and multiple Tag Team titles. Rousey is also a New York Times bestselling author, the most-followed female athlete on social media, and an actress who has appeared in both the Fast and the Furious and The Expendables franchises. She is married to former UFC heavyweight contender Travis Browne. They live with their two sons and daughter on their small farm east of Los Angeles, California
 
Maria Burns Ortiz is a New York Times best-selling author and award-winning sports journalist. Maria spent over a decade in sports media, including seven years as a writer and columnist for ESPN.com, and was the National Association of Hispanic Journalists’ Emerging Journalist of the Year. She is a teaching artist on the topic of memoir writing at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, where she lives with her husband and three kids.
 

Editorial Reviews

"Fight fans not shocked by revelations of both malfeasance and artful choreography will take to this well-crafted memoir."—Kirkus Reviews

"Hard-hitting." —New York Post

“An exceptional autobiography."—The Miami Herald, on My Fight / Your Fight

"[Rousey's] experiences and storytelling are engrossing and entertaining.”
 —Kirkus Reviews, on My Fight / Your Fight

“There have been multiple challenges to buffer Rousey’s myriad triumphs, and she boldly bares all in a book that is fascinating to read and tough to put down.”—UFC.com, on My Fight / Your Fight

From the Publisher

2024-02-10
An inspirational memoir by the mixed martial arts legend.

Rousey (b. 1987) was touted as an overnight success when she came onto the MMA scene. However, she notes, “‘overnight’ is what they call it when no one has been paying attention to the decades of time and effort you put into perfecting a craft.” That success endured for a few years but came tumbling down with a fight in 2015, when, owing to what she describes as neurological issues, she was finally defeated. Blending bravado with self-awareness, she writes, “I was perfect. Until I wasn’t.” The defeat haunts Rousey’s narrative, as she writes about how the loss was devastating enough that she contemplated suicide: “Physical pain I could deal with but the entire world I had created for myself crashing around me was too much to bear.” Then came a comeback, of sorts, when she signed with Vince McMahon’s WWE extravaganza and its heavily scripted matches, departures from which McMahon did not tolerate, as when Rousey refused to call herself “the women’s champion,” preferring simply “the champion.” McMahon’s characteristic response: “Get out of here with that woke bullshit.” Recent accusations against McMahon have led to his being distanced from his own organization, and Rousey is timely in corroborating many of the allegations. McMahon emerges as a decidedly unsympathetic character, more so than any scripted in-the-ring villain. Still, Rousey acknowledges that WWE will roll on without much wokeness entering the picture. Knowing that she couldn’t change the organization, she changed her life by walking away—and recognizing that she was fortunate to have the resources and family support to do so while many other fighters are “forced to keep going until their body falls apart.”

Fight fans not shocked by revelations of both malfeasance and artful choreography will take to this well-crafted memoir.

Kirkus Reviews