UFC bantamweight champ Ronda Rousey has two knockouts in her mixed martial arts career. Consider her new spread in Sports Illustrated a third.
"Rowdy" Ronda stripped down for the magazine's 2015 Swimsuit edition, available on news stands now. The 28-year-old fighter appears in both a one-piece and a sexy black bikini.
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The photos may look like they were set in a tropical location, but Rousey told USA Today's For The Win that they were actually taken in freezing Gulf Coast temperatures.
“I’m very good at hiding the pain on my face,” she said, per FTW. “Some crazy situations will make you learn how to smile through the cold.”
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It's not the first time Rousey's shown some skin on the printed page. In 2012 she posed for ESPN The Magazine's Body Issue. Rousey discussed the differences between the two photo shoots with FTW.
“The ESPN Body Issue is about celebrating the peak of human potential and the kind of form the human body, when specialized, can really look like," she said. "The Swimsuit Issue has a lot more [of a] sexual side to it, while I don’t think the Body Issue is overtly sexual whereas Sports Illustrated is."
Rousey makes her next appearance in the Octagon against Cat Zingano on February 28, as a co-headliner of UFC 184 in Los Angeles.
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