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Last summer, Rousey released her autobiography, “My Fight/Your Fight.” The book contains a narrative about a former boyfriend she caught taking nude photographs of her without her knowledge. The incident led to Rousey, by her own admission, initiating an altercation with the man:

“I deleted the photos. Then I erased the hard drive. Then I waited for Snappers McCreepy to come home from work. I stood frozen like a statue in his kitchen, getting angrier and angrier. I started cracking my knuckles and clenched my teeth. The longer I waited, the madder I got. Forty-five minutes later, he walked in the door. He saw my face and froze. He asked what was wrong and when I didn’t say anything, he started to cry. I slapped him across the face so hard my hand hurt.”

After multiple expletives from both sides, Rousey wrote, she continued the altercation:

"He wouldn’t move. I punched him in the face with a straight right, then a left hook. He staggered back and fell against the door. ... I slapped him with my right hand. He still wouldn't move. Then I grabbed him by the neck of his hoodie, kneed him in the face, and tossed him aside on the kitchen floor."

The fight ended after Rousey went to her car and he jumped into the passenger seat, grabbing the steering wheel. “I walked around the car, pulled him by the neck of the hoodie again, dragged him onto the sidewalk and left him writhing there as I sped away.”

The words have prompted consideration over whether Rousey's details should be considered domestic violence.

It's unclear if "Snappers McCreepy" is really Timothy DiGorrio, a former boyfriend of Rousey, who claimed domestic violence was the reason for their breakup earlier this year.

Time lapsed before news of the excerpt broke, but with Rousey set to fight Holly Holm on Saturday, the UFC's biggest star's personal life has been under a microscope on a nearly constant basis.