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Ricky Simon punches Rani Yahya during their Bantamweight bout during UFC234 on February 10, 2019 in Melbourne, Australia. (Getty/Quinn Rooney)

Facing 40 and stepping into the MMA ring

Matthew Rozsa
Floyd Mayweather Jr.; Conor McGregor (AP/Jae C. Hong)

McGregor tries on race baiting

Gabriel Bell
Amanda Nunes, right, connects with Ronda Rousey (AP/John Locher)

Lessons from Rousey vs. Nunes

Eileen G'Sell
Ronda Rousey (AP/Jae C. Hong)

Ronda Rousey's fall from grace

Matt Saccaro
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(Reuters/Rafael Marchante)

I flipped my "psycho switch"

Doug Merlino
Ronda Rousey (AP/Jae C. Hong)

Ronda Rousey: Not a role model

Matt Saccaro
(<a href='https://secure.istockphoto.com/profile/seanshot'>SeanShot</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

My toxic masculinity education

Matt Saccaro
Ronda Rousey (Reuters/Ricardo Moraes)

The badass America needed

Matthew Pulver
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War Machine, mixed martial artist (Las Vegas Police Department)

Jenny Kutner
War Machine, mixed martial artist (Las Vegas Police Department)

Jenny Kutner
Adult film star Christy Mack was recently brutally assaulted by ex-boyfriend and mixed-martial arts fighter Jon "War Machine" Koppenhaver. (Michael Dorausch via Flickr Creative Commons 2.0/Wikimedia Commons)

Jenny Kutner
War Machine, mixed martial artist (Las Vegas Police Department)

MMA has a misogyny problem

Tracy Clark-Flory
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(Fallon Fox)

Katie McDonough
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