{"id":47630,"date":"2012-12-20T11:44:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T19:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=47630"},"modified":"2022-02-06T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T21:23:00","slug":"ronda-rousey-explains-her-determination-to-win-over-dana-white-ufc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/ronda-rousey-explains-her-determination-to-win-over-dana-white-ufc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronda Rousey Explains Her Determination To Win Over Dana White | UFC NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/rousey1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/rousey1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"rousey\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/rousey1.jpg 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/rousey1-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/rousey1-361x250.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>\u201cIt was a goal of mine from the very beginning actually. I just refused to be ignored pretty much. I said to myself, \u2018What would work?\u2019 I just thought, \u2018I\u2019m going to make myself so impossible to ignore and make myself into something that they didn\u2019t even know that they needed. Before I became a pro I was saying that, so when I was training for my pro debut at King of the Cage is when I first said it on camera. I said, \u2018This guy is going to love me and there\u2019s nothing he can do about it.\u2019 I was so sure. You know, I never doubted it. Gaining the respect of men who didn\u2019t think women belong in a gym is something that I\u2019ve become very good at over the years. He (White) wasn\u2019t the first person to doubt me before he met me. I\u2019m used to changing people\u2019s minds. If you are a woman and you are training, every single time you go into a new environment you have to prove yourself all over again.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first ever UFC female champion of the world, Ronda Rousey, tells Southern California&#8217;s OC Register about her rise to the top and her determination to win over UFC president Dana White.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever she did, it worked! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt was a goal of mine from the very beginning actually. I just refused to be ignored pretty much. I said to myself, \u2018What would work?\u2019 I just thought, \u2018I\u2019m going to make myself so impossible to ignore and make myself into something that they didn\u2019t even know that they needed. 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