If you just feel a tremor under your feet , sense a rush of heat against your brow , we now know why : Ronda Rousey , MMA fighter aircraft extraordinaire , is back doing what she does well .
UFC President Dana White officially declare today that Rousey will formally be back in the ring in 2016 . After her crush knockout at the hands of Holly Holm last November , everyone wonder when ( or indeed , if ) the former Women ’s Bantamweight champ would pass to campaign in the UFC . It ’s not easy to reclaim from the " Kick Heard Round the World , " after all . Well , not only did Rousey recover enough to render to the octagon , but she ’ll be doing so in two calendar month ' time at UFC 207 on December 30th .
Rousey will assay to recover her statute title from current Bantamweight champ Amanda Nunes , who snag the championship from Miesha Tate at UFC 200 , who in bout took it from Holly Holm at UFC 196 . In other words , while this wo n’t be a retaliation fightper se , she ’ll still be fighting the woman who perplex the woman who thump her face in last class , which is well within the six degrees of separation need by Kevin Bacon ’s cosmic law of nature .
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For those of you who do n’t think of her stunning defeat in 2015 , here ’s a quick recap : follow months of tripe talk and undefeated ballyhoo , Ronda Rousey accede the octagon with Holly Holm for one of the most anticipated UFC fights in recent store . What stick to was an astonishingly quick match , which ended in the second round witha devastating knockout flush to Rousey ’s head . Ouch .
In the week that follow , a humble Rousey claimed it would be a while before she ’d be well enoughto even prick an apple– and then four calendar month after the Kick Hear ' Round the World , she posted a television of herself doing just that . She ’s since been spottedtraining at her gymthis summer , fueling speculation of an upcoming redemption friction match . Well , theorize no more , because that mates just became prescribed .
Win , lose , or draw , this ’ll be one hell of a fight .
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