Ronda Rousey is the Best Female Athlete Ever According to Bracket

Ronda Rousey is the greatest female athlete of all-time and ESPNW has the numbers to back it up. Sure, those numbers are from Internet bracket voting, but that’s pretty damn scientific. Just an FYI – there’s no recency bias. The W stands for Women, not Who’s Now? Rousey’s path to glory included wins over Missy Franklin, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Diana Taurasi, Florence Griffith-Joyner and Serena Williams. Here’s the methodology used to select the field of 32:

"We had some fun — because what else could it be but fun to compare athletes from different eras (short shorts versus long shorts) and different sports (frontside 1080 versus 14-second armbar)? — and named eight seeds and drew the rest of the slots."

What does “drew” slots mean? Apparently, a random character generator pulled the greatest female athlete of all-time’s name out of a virtual hat. Pretty lucky actually. This just goes to show that no matter who your target audience is, brackets aren’t just for March anymore. Thanks ESPNW!