Pokemon-Obsessed Ronda Rousey Once Won the Internet by Involving Her Career-Defining Armbar in a Hilarious Joke

Published 08/21/2022, 7:50 AM EDT

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Ronda Rousey is a former UFC champion as well as one of the baddest female wrestlers in the world. Over the years she had won several victories over many of her opponents, but there is one whom she might not be able to defeat.

Yes, that’s right, once on Twitter, she revealed a famous character who she might find difficult to fight. According to her, she won’t be able to perform a special move on a very popular Pokemon!

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Ronda Rousey can’t perform an arm bar to a Pokemon?

It is well known that Ronda Rousey is a big-time Pokemon fan, as she had revealed time and time over in her interviews and her gaming streams. But this love won’t come in between if she might be given the chance to wrestle one of them.

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Rousey once revealed that she wouldn’t be able to perform an arm bar on a Poliwag. As for starters, the water-type Pokemon has no hands to perform the move on.

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Notably, Poliwag is a tadpole category Pokemon and thus has only a tail and two small feet to swim in rivers. Although it can be a challenge for Rousey to fight an evolved Poliwag, aka the Poliwrath, which is around 119 lbs while also being a fighting type Pokemon.

How much does Rousey love Pokemon?

It is an interesting question to ask how much does Ronda Rousey’s love for Pokemon extend? Well according to her she is a “big-time Pokemon nerd”. During her teenage years, she used to “moderate the pokemon stadium 2 forum on gametalk.com as mew182”.

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Apart from all this she also lost a lot of weight as a kid while being obsessed with Pokemon. She said, “My first one was Pokemon Blue, and my first Pokemon was a Charmander and I was immediately hooked on it. I lost a bunch of weight that summer, and I was a small kid because I would not stop playing.”

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Thus it is proved that she will always have a special place for Pokemons in her heart.

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Shivaditya Ghoshal

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Shivaditya Ghoshal is an eSports writer at EssentiallySports. He holds a Bachelor's in Computer Applications and is currently pursuing his Master’s in Commerce from Lucknow. Shivaditya holds a keen passion for video games and follows all the latest releases and trends in the gaming industry.
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