Ronda Rousey Announced as Sonya Blade at the Mortal Kombat 11 Reveal Event

Justin Golightly
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Her entire life has been training for this moment. Ronda is an expert in hand-to-hand combat and is certainly no stranger to being a badass special forces agent. She’s unloaded clips into nefarious forces on the silver screen many times.

Beatdowns have been handed out to the most dangerous women in Earthrealm, from the UFC Octagon to the WWE Universe. It’s nothing new. But now, this will definitely be the first time she fights an Outworlder with that wears a skull mask. Ronda Rousey is Sonya Blade.

As soon as NetherRealm Studios sent Ronda a black envelope mysteriously sealed with wax, we knew what was up. Just a handful of months ago, she said she was totally down to play Sonya Blade. This declaration must have been heard by Shao Kahn (or Ed Boon) himself. Either way, it happened.

While she didn’t provide any motion capture, her voice is all over Sonya Blade. Although, it did look like Sonya pulled off an armbar and even an O-goshi in the killer gameplay footage. Word is, she even got to use one of her infamous catchphrases. We won’t spoil which one.

She’ll have her work cut out for her though. Time is being manipulated, Raiden is all evil and stuff, and there are even more deadly weapons for kombatants to wield in what looks like the goriest and most incredible version of Mortal Kombat to date.

Mortal Kombat 11 drops on April 23, 2019.


Flashback to when we followed Ronda and Travis behind-the-scenes invading BlizzCon 2017 as Death Knights.

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