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This much we know: Ronda Rousey is a popular figure in the world of professional sports these days. She has become the most recognizable and talked-about fighter the Ultimate Fighting Championship has ever had under contract, her face seemingly plastered around every corner in every major city in the United States.

Rousey stars in commercials, graces the covers of non-MMA magazines and lands roles in major motion pictures. While it might seem as if the UFC is shoving its women’s bantamweight champion down everyone’s throat, the organization has plenty of reasons to do so. Rousey is that big of a star.

With Rousey set to defend her bantamweight championship against Holly Holm in the UFC 193 main event on Saturday in Melbourne, Australia, her growing list of achievements becomes the subject of the latest installment in the Sherdog Top 10 series.

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HONORABLE MENTIONS: Publishing “My Fight/Your Fight,” Gracing the Cover of Ring Magazine, Appearance at “Wrestlemania 31,” Movie Roles in “The Expendables 3,” “Furious 7” and “Entourage”

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