Ronda Rousey is much prouder to be recently named Sports Illustrated's No. 1 pound-for-pound mixed martial arts fighter than being featured on SI's swimsuit issue and ESPN the Magazine's Body issue in 2012. Even if voted as "The Sexiest Woman Alive", Rousey said she would not trade it with her current honor, according to Washington Post's Des Bieler.

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"There's a 'Sexiest Woman Alive' every year. It's once in a blue moon that you see a woman at the top of the pound-for-pound list," Rousey told HBO's Real Sports reporter Jon Frankel, as reported by MMAFighting's Dave Doyle. She was referring to the pound-for-pound list created by Sports Illustrated that features both male and female fighters. At this time, there are two women fighters on the list. Rousey and Polish Joanna Jędrzejczyk at No. 10.

The current UFC Women's Bantamweight champion has not yet tasted defeat in her professional career, and had been winning her fights more quickly than most people can cook scrambled eggs on butter, but her sex symbol brand has noticeably helped her become a worldwide celebrity.

"I don't really see myself as a sex symbol because ever since people started calling me a sex symbol, I haven't really had a lot of sex in my life. It's not really working out great for me," she quipped.

Rousey will fight Bethe Correia on Aug. 1 as the main event of UFC 190 to be held at the HSBC Arena in Rio. It will be her sixth title defense since joining UFC in August 2012. Rousey's professional mixed martial arts record is 11-0, nine won by submission and two by way of knockout. Her last two fights lasted for only 30 seconds combined.

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