ROUSEY: 'I WAS WILLING TO DIE' TO WIN IN UFC DEBUT
By Damon Martin, foxsports.com
It's nearly impossible to comb through Ronda Rousey's 12-fight career to find any moments where she's actually been pushed in a fight much less put into any real trouble, but the closest she's come was in her UFC debut against Liz Carmouche in 2013.
Rousey joined the UFC following an undefeated run in Strikeforce where she won the women's bantamweight title before defending it on one occasion prior to the UFC enveloping the division all together.
While Rousey has faced challenges with every opponent she's dissected, even those she's finished in sub-one minute performances — and let's be honest there are a lot of them — it was Carmouche who actually locked on a rear naked choke early in the fight that looked like it might bring the champion to the ground before her rise to fame even started.