Get to know this weekend’s Strikeforce headliners Ronda Rousey and Sarah Kaufman better by watching the videos below in which they explain how they became MMA fighters.
For Rousey it all stems from her family. Her mother was a highly motivated individual who just happened to also be a talented Judo practitioner, while the death of her father in her formative years only served to further motivate her to prove that he had been right to believe in her athletic abilities.
As for Kaufman it was all about being in the right place at the right time when an MMA gym opened up beneath the dance class she took as a child, while a bold decision to step away from a pre-med university course and focus on fighting many years ago also helped set her on the path to becoming an MMA star.
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Ronda Rousey:
Sarah Kaufman:
