Ronda Rousey thinks doomsday is coming — and she's ready for it

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LOS ANGELES — Ronda Rousey thinks the end of the world as we know it is coming. And she's ready for it.

In case you were wondering, yes, you did read that previous statement correctly. Rousey, 16 months removed from the final collapse of her Ultimate Fighting Championship career and now making waves with World Wrestling Entertainment, is preparing for doomsday.

The former mixed martial artist and 2008 Olympic judo bronze medalist now lives with husband Travis Browne on a large property in rural Southern California, where they have a lifestyle largely independent from modern conveniences.

"I am a big doomsday prepper," Rousey said this week, in a public discussion with Hollywood director Peter Berg at the Wildcard West boxing gym in Los Angeles. "I think of it as a very positive outlook on the world. Some people think it is negative. But I think as a self proclaimed genetic cream of the crop such as I am, I owe it to humanity to survive the end of the world. It's my responsibility.

"Instead of my apocalypse plan being a handle of alcohol and maybe tears, which is a lot of people's plan, I'm like, I'm going to make it. If anyone's going to make it, I'm going to make it."

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Rousey and Browne raise goats as they are "the perfect doomsday animal" as well as chickens and a steer. They even flew back to California during filming of the upcoming Berg film Mile 22 in order to tend to her animals.

The 31-year-old has always had strong opinions on social, environmental and economic matters, except they haven't been heard much lately as Rousey completely shut herself off from the media following defeats in the UFC to Holly Holm and Amanda Nunes. However, that didn't stop her from thinking about things as diverse as the gold standard, Amazon rainforest depletion and social injustice.

Rousey made millions of dollars from her time in the UFC and continues to profit from her lucrative WWE contract, where she made a star turn at Wrestlemania earlier this month, yet is fully invested in embracing a simple and sustainable lifestyle.

"I could buy a whole bunch of things, but what's luxury to me and freedom to me is being independent and finding a way to live off the land and do no harm, as opposed to buying as many mansions as I can and being on Cribs," Rousey added.

"I think that self reliance and independence is real freedom. We forgo our freedom for convenience a lot of the time. It is more important for people to know how to feed themselves than to know how to do trigonometry.

"A lot of these skills that were common place, every generation we know less and less an less about them because it makes people money for us not to know. Every single person in here their survival plan is a grocery store. If all the grocery stores closed, what would you do. That's a scary thought."