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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
"She's the greatest athlete that I've ever worked with, period. I wish I had 10 Ronda Rousey's... She's laser focused on her career and what she wants to do. None of these guys want to do PR. She'll do any PR you ask her to do. She'll even do PR to try to help sell somebody else's fight. We need her to do things, a lot of activations with sponsors and she says no problem. And when she leaves the sponsors call here and say she was unbelievable to work with. That woman's making over $3 million a year in sponsorship."
-Dana White sings Ronda Rousey's praises and puts a number to what he claims she's making every year in sponsorship during an interview on The Jime Rome Show this week (transcribed by FoxSports.com).
Penick's Analysis: It wouldn't surprise me if she was making a significant amount of money on outside sponsors, but I'm not sure how reliable White is on any hard numbers. Still, it's clear she's more than capable of garnering heavy interest, and she's willing to put herself out there in the media and in other appearances, so the more she does that, the more likely it is she's bringing in companies willing to pay her. If that's indeed the level of money she's making right now, that's great for her, but it's also an outlier from the rest of the division.
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