#2. She is the first woman athlete to feature on the cover of a men's magazine.
She has a lot of first's. Ronda Rousey's exceptional skills, her tough image and her attractiveness made her an admirable superstar among both men and women. Australia's Men's Fitness magazine was aware of all the buzz surrounding the UFC fighter and made her the cover star of their male-oriented magazine.
Rousey didn't end there, as she would go on to feature as a cover star on many other premier magazines and even featured on espnW's Impact 25. More notably, however, she was also the first female MMA athlete to feature on the cover of Sports Illustrated, in which she was described as 'the world's most dominant athlete'.