Ronda Rousey Says Bigger Boobs Means Bigger Targets; There’s a Reason You Don’t See `Big Titties’ at the Olympics

Ronda Rousey’s next fight may be with her bra. The mixed martial artist and judoka is UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion and was the Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Champion. Ronda Rousey won all her matches in the first round by armbar in the first round. Ronda Rousey says that big breasts can be a drawback in the ring.

Ronda Rousey, who was the American woman to earn an Olympic medal in Judo at the Summer Olympics in Beijing in 2008 and recently got advice from heavyweight champion Iron Mike Tyson, loves the female form, but says it can get in the way in competition.

In the latest installment of ESPN’s “Body Issue,” Ronda Rousey says “The bigger my chest is, the more it gets in the way. It just creates space. It makes me much more efficient if I don’t have so much in the way between me and my opponent.”

Size matters in sports. Taller basketball players have an advantage, so do boxers with longer arms, runners with longer legs. Jockeys travel faster when they are small and sumo wrestlers excel when they are wider. There have been scientific studies on the drawbacks of bigger breasts.

The former UFC women’s bantamweight champion has always up front about breast getting in the way of athletic performance. Ronda Rousey know this from experience. Ronda Rousey said she was distracted by wardrobe malfunction at the UFC 157 in Anaheim when she had to defend her title for the first time against Carmouche. The “Girlrilla” locked Rousey's with a rear naked choke and then switched to a brutally-torqued neck crank. When Rousey threw Carmouche to the canvas, Rousey readjusted her sports bra instead of defending herself. Rousey was kicked while trying to re-adjust her sports bra.

Rousey said “When someone’s on your back trying to rip your head off, things tend to slip around a bit. I got kicked straight in the chest right as I was trying to adjust my bra.”

Rousey said that doesn’t take away from the splendor of the female body. She said “Gina Carano was an amazing fighter, and she had a fantastic rack. You don’t see big titties in the Olympics, and I think that’s for a reason.”

 by Tony Sokol

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