UFC fighter Ronda Rousey once credited Furious 7 co-actor Vin Diesel. The former UFC 135-pound women’s champion credited the actor for teaching her the game ‘World of WarCraft’. Rousey, who had been previously introduced to the game while working on The Expendables 3, struggled to play the game until she met Diesel on the sets of Furious 7.
The saga started when Rousey told Diesel’s sister that she played the game. The 2008 Olympic gold medalist in Judo said, “I mentioned to Vin Diesel’s sister that I started playing WoW and she was like, ‘No way, Vin’s gonna love you. He’s been playing WoW forever.'” Rousey mentioned she and Diesel would play the game after filming. She added, “So we would actually meet up after filming to play WoW and he actually showed me the light. He was like, ‘Oh you dear, sweet angel, let me show you how to move with the mouse.'”
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The former queen of the 135-pound women’s division also added, “Vin’s been playing since the beginning. I will never learn as much as he’s forgotten about WoW. I remember being so mad at him like, ‘I can’t control the camera, this is all over the place,’ and he would try to like to help me level up so I’d at least get like a flying mount so then I graduated to a laptop with a mouse.”
“Now I’m like completely immersed with a big gaming PC and a curved monitor. I’ve completely been converted. It started as a casual thing and now it’s become a lifestyle,” concluded Rousey.
However, gaming has always been a very important part of Rousey’s life. She had also said that while gaming was important to her; it was similarly important to her husband and the kids.
Ronda Rousey on the importance of gaming for her
When Ronda Rousey is not punching people in the head, one could probably find the fighter playing World of WarCraft. In an interview, Rousey detailed its importance.
The former UFC champion said, “Gaming’s been immensely important, not just for myself but for my kids and my husband.” She added that gaming is an activity her family has kept up to. Rousey said, “We’ve always been a big gaming family, and it’s really helped a lot. So it’s kind of become our pandemic-safe family activity that we’ve been able to continue, with everything being as crazy as it is.”
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Rousey mentioned that when she started dating, she used to play World of WarCraft every day. The fighter said, “When I first started dating my husband I was playing WoW all the time and so he wanted to play because he wanted to spend time with me and then all my kids started playing and we’d like run raids and Dungeons and everything together.”
Ronda Rousey is not the first fighter who is into gaming. Fighters such as Demetrious Johnson and Max Holloway have been involved in gaming in a major way.
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