Ronda Rousey Once Let Go of Her “Very Competitive” Persona to Claim Her Favorite Authentic Pokemon

Ronda Rousey aka ‘The Baddest Woman on the Planet’ is a huge video game fanatic. Not just in her wrestling and UFC career, but she never held back in her gaming career as well. Notably, Rousey is known for her love for Nintendo games and she also used to stream them on Facebook in 2020. But way before that, she once confessed to her fans her love for a ‘New Species’ Pokemon.

In order to get hold of it, Rousey did something unforgettable, which she confessed in an episode of ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.’

Ronda Rousey and her love for Pokemon

In an episode from 2015 of The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, Rousey appeared in a ‘Geeking Out’ segment. Here, she talked about her love for Nintendo games like Pokemon and the Legend of Zelda franchise.

Talking about these she said, “Lot of people who follow me know that I was a big-time Pokemon nerd growing up. I used to get mad about Pokemon forms, go to the mall to take part take in the little Pokemon tournaments, get my little badges.” 

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She further added, “Then I got a little older and then I got into other console RPG games. I think I have beat most generations of Zelda and I have beat all the generations of Pokemon.”

The Baddest Woman crushed her opponents for a Mew!

But the most interesting part was when she told the audience about her love for ‘Mew’. In the same segment, she tells the story of how she played Pokemon authentically to find a Mew in the original Red and Blue games.

She told in the video, “In the mall, they would lineup and trade back and forth and all these things and fight all the kids in the line. I used to crush everybody in the line. You know, I was really competitive.”

But she then realized that playing competitively won’t help because having an authentic Mew takes some serious skills. She remembered holding herself back by saying, “That was the only way not to compete because I wanted an authentic Mew, coz Mew was not in the original one fifty-one.”

Thus, she had to make sure to level up and learn a few tricks to capture the Pokemon. Notably, she said she used a certain way to win it because she loved the Pokemon so much she couldn’t think otherwise.

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