Rose Namajunas
Rose Gertrude Namajunas (born June 29, 1992) is an American mixed martial artist. She is currently signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where she competes in the women's strawweight division. Namajunas is a former UFC Women's Strawweight Champion. As of February 10, 2020, she is #2 in the UFC women's strawweight rankings and #6 in UFC women's pound-for-pound rankings
Namajunas was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on June 29, 1992, to Lithuanian parents. She was named Rose (Lithuanian: Rožė) in honor of her great-grandmother Rožė Gotšalkaitė Namajūnienė, whose husband was an independent Lithuania military officer. He was killed by the Soviets near his house in the temporary capital of Kaunas, Lithuania. Rose Namajunas regularly visits Lithuania and understands the Lithuanian language, because she communicates in it with her grandparents.
She has said that her father suffered from schizophrenia, which led to complications and hardships during her youth. Namajunas started practicing Taekwondo at the age of 5. She earned her poom belt (junior black belt) at age 9. After that, she went on to practice both karate and jiu-jitsu. While in high school, she started training in kickboxing and mixed martial arts with Duke Roufus at Roufusport, and she was also a senior-year wrestler at Milwaukee High School of the Arts
Reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Namajunas
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