UFC superstar Ronda Rousey continues her crossover into mainstream Hollywood by landing her first starring role in a movie, and it's a big one.

Previously the UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion has featured in small roles in Expendables 3, Fast and Furious 7 and Entourage. But now, the increasingly popular athlete will take over the role made famous by Patrick Swayze in Road House.

The original is a genuine, cheesy-but-brilliant, 80s classic and featured Swayze as a 'cooler' (a bouncer) who runs afoul of a local crime syndicate when he attempts to clean up the establishment he's running the door on.

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Rousey has been cast in Mile 22 opposite Mark Wahlberg, and will also feature in the big screen biography of her life - My Fight Your Fight.

 

 

 

the 12-0 fighter will also defend her title again in November in Australia - against former pro boxer, Holly Holm.

Via Variety