Fresh off pummeling Bethe Correia via a 34-second knockout at UFC 190 in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday night, Aug. 1, Ronda Rousey has another reason to celebrate.
Tpday, Aug. 3, Variety reported that Paramount Pictures secured the rights to bring the UFC women's bantamweight champion's best-selling autobiograpy, My Fight / Your Fight, to the movie screen, with Rousey playing herself.
Rousey took to her Instagram account Monday afternoon to share her excitement of the news.
"Great news—#MyFightYourFight is gunna be a movie!" she wrote about the film, which will detail the inspirational story behind her budding career. "Can't wait to work with Paramount, the talented Mark Bomback and Mary Parent! When it's time to make this, I promise to make it special."
Bomback, whose recent credits include The Wolverine and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, has already begun adapting Rousey's autobiography for the upcoming movie. Parent, who worked on Godzilla and Pacific Rim recently, tolld Variety that it's a "real honor to be part of bringing Ronda's incredible story to the big screen."
This news comes on the heels of Rousey most recently appearing in Entourage and The Expendables 3 and Furious 7 before that. Rousey, 28, is also set to appear in the action movie, Mile 22, due January 2016. She also has endorsement deals with DraftKings, Reebok and Buffalo Jeans, all a part of her sky-rocketing brand outside the octagon.
Of course, all of her success stems from her mixed martial arts (MMA) career in the UFC, where she improved her record to 12-0 after knocking out Correia just 34 seconds into the first round. Including Saturday night's bout, her last three fights have lasted a combined—and astonishing—64 seconds.
Currently, there isn't a tentative date for when Rousey's autobiography will go into production.
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