At the rate and speed that UFC Bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey is beating her opponents, she could become as popular as American boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Her sheen was further felt when it took her only 34 seconds to beat Bethe Correia on Saturday in Brazil. Ronda's stock will surely rise further with several movies in the pipeline, including one based on her autobiography that she would star in.
Rousey will be the star of the movie adaptation of "My Fight/Your Fight" which the MMA star released in the early part of 2015, reports Variety. Rousey and Mary Parent are the producers of the film, while executive producer is Mark Bomback who is also working on the adaptation of the book.
Ronda and her sister, Maria Burns Ortiz, wrote the autobiography, published in spring by Regan Arts. The film version, though, has no timetable yet since Bomback just started the adaptation.
Ronda was last seen in "Expendables 3," "Furious 7" and "Entourage." She is also shooting in January "Mile-22," a movie about the CIA, opposite Mark Wahlberg, while Ronda will also be a part of "The Athena Project," an action thriller.
Meanwhile, the clamor for Ronda to fight again Cris "Cyborg" Justino has become stronger after Rousey's Saturday victory over Bethe. Justino, the Invicta FC featherweight champion, fights at 155 pounds. She has never fought at 135 pounds, while MMA fans hope the two would agree to a catchweight of 140 or 145 pounds, CBSSports reports.
In response, Rousey said, "I'm prepared to deal with anything, that's why I'm the champion. I fight in the UFC, in the 135-pound division. She can fight at 145 pumped full of steroids or she can make the weight just like everybody else without them."