“Yep, That’s Right. I Slept With Hulk Hogan”: The True Story Behind Ronda Rousey’s Infamous Comment

Ronda Rousey had to fight for her first breath. She had her umbilical cord tangled around her throat when she was about to be born. It was restricting the air supply. When she was born, she was almost dead. In her memoir ‘My Fight, Your Fight’, Ronda describes herself as “blue and listless” when she was born. On a scientific scale of a newborn surviving, her chances were zero. Yet the fighter survived. She grew up to be a feisty child. Ronda seemed to fancy combat sports since childhood.

As a child, Ronda’s speech was troubled because of the circumstances surrounding at birth. She gurgled out words and it was difficult to understand what she said. As a child, she wanted to have a ‘wrestling buddy’ that looked like Hulk Hogan. Hogan was Rousey’s favorite wrestler. She did get hulk, but it was a struggle. Once she got the wrestling toy, they were inseparable.

Ronda Rousey and Hulk Hogan were inseparable

Rousey was so attached to the Hogan wrestling buddy toy that she took it along even to the bed. In her book, “My Fight/Your Fight” she recounts, “My mom sewed his arm back on with dental floss, and then, as I did every night, I got into bed with him. Yep, that’s every night, I got into bed with him.”

“Yep, that’s right I slept with Hulk Hogan.” Ronda recounted how a toy store clerk understood that she wanted a Hulk Hogan toy.

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She tried to explain it to her mom, who took her to stores to find the toy she wanted. The mission failed. Ronda’s father had to take her to a store again because Rousey was really sad and crying. The trouble in Rousey’s speech was only letting her say some garbled words that were difficult to understand.

The “Balgrin” that made Ronda Rousey cry

While Ronda’s parents did understand that she wanted a toy, they couldn’t understand exactly which one. Little Ronda could only manage to say “Balgrin”. Ronda was asking for a “Balgrin” and no one knew what a “Balgrin” actually was. Little Ronda cried a lot because no one was able to understand what she was saying.

Ronda recounts in her memoir and wrote, “The clerk placed the wrestling buddy box in my hands and I was flooded with Joy. I refused to let my parents take Hulk Hogan for even a moment, not even to pay for him, so the clerk just rang up another box. When we got home, Hulk and I were nearly inseparable. I jumped off the couch with an elbow on his chest. I’d pin him on the ground and make mom count to three. In what was either complete co-incidence or an eerie sign of things to come, I eventually ripped off his arm.”

Hogan’s arm was later patched up by Ronda’s mother AnneMarie De Mars, who was a judoka herself. Rousey learned her wrestling with her Hulk Hogan.

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