Travis Browne agrees Ronda Rousey is the most dominant athlete in sports
The past week for UFC women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey has been like a whirlwind as she's jet-setted across the United States in support of her new autobiography while becoming only the second MMA fighter in history to grace the cover of Sports Illustrated.
Along the way, Rousey was also named the most dominant athlete in the world ahead of LeBron James, Tom Brady and any other sports star currently running roughshod over their peers.
Since the announcement, Rousey has landed in the crosshairs of a lot of debate about her dominance in the women's division and whether or not she's facing the same level of competition that, say, James takes on in the NBA playoffs or Brady deals with during the Super Bowl. What's impossible to ignore is the way Rousey has dispatched every top contender she's faced with relative ease and somehow finds a way to beat each performance with the next.
Rousey's teammate, Travis Browne, moved to California full-time last year to begin working with the same coaches who molded Rousey into a UFC champion. He agrees with the notion that she's the most dominant athlete in sports, and it's easy to prove why.
Just look at her record.
"I would say so," Browne told FOX Sports. "I mean look at what she's doing. She makes it looks easy in a sport that nothing comes easy. It's not like she has an off day. She continues to surprise even herself at time with her abilities. She works so hard and she has her nose to the grindstone so often that when she accomplishes what she accomplishes, when she takes a step back she's like, 'Wow'. It's amazing what she's done and in the short amount of time she's done it in.
"Four years ago, she had her first fight. Look at her now. You couldn't write a story like that. That's just something that had to happen naturally. It's not like the end of it either. We're not at the end of her story."
While many critics look at Rousey's lightning-fast finishes and wonder if she's just better than a lackluster supporting cast in the women's bantamweight division, Browne says his teammate puts in just as much work if not more than any other fighter on the roster.
Browne says that's the part very few people actually get to see.
He applauds Rousey's work ethic in the gym because she's always there training to get better and no amount of movie roles, interviews or book tours are going to ultimately drag her away from what she needs to do to get ready for a fight.
Rousey's willingness to do what others won't is the reason Browne believes she's so successful in the cage and probably why no one will come close to what she does outside of it either.
"Seeing the way that she works in the gym I can only imagine how hard she works outside the gym," Browne said. "Seeing her dedication to the sport is second to none and then just knowing that carries over into other aspects of her life whether it's shooting a photoshoot for Sports Illustrated or writing a book, she's a hard worker.
"That's something you can't take from her."
