The 26-year-old claims no official offer has been made to the wildly popular UFC Women's champion, but Rousey recently told HBO Real Sports that even a huge payday couldn't get her to doff her clothes for the cameras.
"No one should be able to see my cash and prizes for $5, okay?" she said. "I don't care how much money they gave me."
Rousey — the undefeated bantamweight with a trash-talking mouth and devastating armbar — said she did the ESPN shoot to help promote herself and women's MMA.
"It wasn't like it was Playboy," said Rousey of the artistic shots of her body. "If you want exposure, you have to expose yourself, to some extent."
Rousey's growing success in the octagon and loyal male fanbase have made her a odd sort of sex symbol — though she is reluctant to admit it.
"I don't really see myself as a sex symbol because ever since people have started calling me a sex symbol, I haven't had a lot of sex in my life," she revealed. "Like, it's just, it's not really working out great for me."
I bet there are a lot of smitten fans who would disagree.
