Ronda Rousey doesn’t have any animosity in direction of Gina Carano forward of their upcoming struggle, however that’s definitely not the case when it comes to reigning UFC girls’s bantamweight champion Kayla Harrison.
While issues stayed painfully cordial between Rousey and Carano, the UFC Hall of Famer erupted when she was requested about Harrison’s latest feedback about her. Back in March, Harrison took aim at Rousey after she talked about an train that takes place between judokas, the place it’s like a marathon coaching session with the particular person in the center staying there till someone beats them. Rousey is an Olympic bronze medalist in judo and as soon as shared as pot on the identical U.S. group as Harrison, who went onto turn into a two-time Olympic gold medalist in judo.
“So she’s online telling this story about how, ‘Yeah, I had a lot of pride so I’d be out there for an hour with these girls and then finally a 90-kilo guy would take pity on me and come out and throw me,’” Harrison stated. “Dude, that is literally a blatant f*cking lie. Now you’re just making shit up. That never happened.”
On Wednesday, Rousey responded in a fiery retort.
“[Kayla] says that I lied about training in judo in Canada in 2006. Who the f*ck are you to call me a liar?” Rousey stated. “I was training there for five months. Bitch, you weren’t even there. Over the last decade and a half of being a public figure, I have cultivated a reputation for being unabashedly truthful. This bitch just got here and was already caught in a lie.
“What did she say after she won the belt? ‘Oh, I’m never going to say anything bad about Ronda, she took care of me when I was broke in Japan, and she bought me groceries.’ How about you shut the f*ck up and eat your groceries?”
During that very same interview from March, Harrison additionally lamented that the Rousey vs. Carano struggle is being touted as the greatest struggle in girls’s MMA historical past, with the opponents concerned coming back from a mixed 27 years out of motion. Rousey final fought in 2016 when she suffered a second straight knockout loss earlier than leaving the UFC, and Carano hasn’t competed since 2009 when she was completed by Cris Cyborg in Strikeforce.
Harrison referred to as Rousey “irrelevant” at this stage of the sport, particularly as she prepares to defend her UFC title in opposition to Amanda Nunes, who’s broadly thought-about the biggest of all-time in girls’s MMA. Nunes was additionally the one that despatched Rousey packing in her remaining UFC struggle.
“Gina is so relevant that she’s the whole reason the 145-pound division even exists. I am so relevant that the only reason she has a job at the UFC is because of me,” Rousey ranted. “Kayla is so irrelevant that she couldn’t even keep the 145-pound division around. Honestly, she’s just sour because no matter what she does or what she accomplishes, she can’t change the fact that she has the charisma of a wet towel and will always be in me and Gina’s shadow.
“So the next time she wants to talk shit, she should look down at her feet and consider who paved the road that she’s walking on. Oh wait, she can’t look down at her feet because she’s too busy holding onto the belt in a neck brace.”
That final insult stems from Harrison lately present process neck surgical procedure that delayed her struggle in opposition to Nunes, which was initially scheduled for UFC 324 in January.
But even that cancelled struggle received Rousey heated as a result of Harrison vs. Nunes was supposed to function the co-main occasion on the card, with an interim light-weight title struggle between Justin Gaethje and Paddy Pimblett set as the headliner.
“Her and Hunter [Campbell] acting like her next upcoming fight is the biggest women’s fight of all time,” Rousey stated. “Then why is it being booked as a co-main for a men’s interim title fight?
“The bitch isn’t even bigger than Paddy the Baddy [Pimblett]. No offense to Paddy. He’s got more potential than anybody in the UFC, and he should call me when his contract runs out.”
With Netflix backing the Rousey vs. Carano card with greater than 325 million subscribers, it’s simple to imagine that the occasion goes to draw sizable viewership numbers.
So Rousey might solely scoff at the suggestion that Harrison’s struggle in opposition to Nunes goes to outdraw her upcoming showdown in opposition to Carano.
In reality, Rousey believes her struggle in opposition to Carano goes to crush each report once they lastly set foot in the cage on May 16.
“If she thinks that her fight is the biggest women’s fight of all-time, why is she getting paid less now than I was 10 years ago?” Rousey stated. “So riddle me this, bitch, are you overvalued or are you overpaid? What really pisses me off more than anything else is how small she thinks. This is not just the biggest women’s fight of all time; this is the biggest MMA fight of all time, it’s going to get the most views on the biggest platform on the card with the biggest stars, and it was assembled by and will be headlined by two women who dared to dream big.
“This dream is going to bring more opportunities and greater revenue share to fighters than they’ve ever had before because this fight is bigger than just me and Gina. It’s bigger than anybody on this stage. It represents an unstoppable force of change in this industry, spearheaded by the fighters themselves. You bet your f*cking ass this is the biggest MMA fight of all time. Bar none.”
