How old is Ronda Rousey? Age and career timeline, from first fight to 2026 MMA comeback
Ronda Rousey, a significant figure in MMA history, is set to return to the sport in 2026 after a long hiatus. She will face Gina Carano, another prominent fighter, in what is expected to be an entertaining match. Rousey aims to reconnect with her passion for martial arts and overcome past negative experiences in the sport.
- ▪Ronda Rousey is 39 years old, born on February 1, 1987.
- ▪She began her judo career at age 11 and qualified for the 2004 Olympics at 17.
- ▪Rousey is returning to MMA for the first time since 2016 to fight Gina Carano.
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| Original publisher | Yahoo Sports |
| Canonical URL | https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/old-ronda-rousey-age-career-082002609.html |
| Publication time | Sat, 16 May 2026 08:20:02 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-16T08:40:17.896Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-16T08:40:17.896Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | peThggdKnsgv · 9 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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