“Rowdy” came loaded.
Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Bantamweight champion and WWE star Ronda Rousey is set to face women’s MMA pioneer Gina Carano on May 16, 2026, at Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, California, with the event scheduled to stream on Netflix.
And while most see this as a mega event because it’s the first MMA fight to be featured on Netflix, UFC women’s Bantamweight champion Kayla Harrison — someone who has history with Rousey — couldn’t care less about the huge main event between
two women pioneers.
“I don’t think we should talk about this because I don’t think I have anything nice to say,” Harrison said about Rousey’s return on Death Row MMA a couple of weeks ago. “She said this is the best female fight of all time. How old is Gina, though? She hasn’t fought in 17 years. Like, shut up.”
Harrison later doubled down, calling Rousey “f—king irrelevant.”
That didn’t sit well.
Rousey fired back today during the MVP MMA 1 press conference (watch here) — and didn’t hold anything back.
“Gina is so relevant she’s the reason the 145-pound division even exists,” Rousey said. “I’m so relevant that the only reason she has a job in the UFC is because of me. Kayla is so irrelevant that she couldn’t even keep that division around.”
Then it got personal.
“Honestly, she’s just sour because no matter what she does, she has the charisma of a wet towel and will always be in mine and Gina’s shadows,” Rousey continued.
“So, the next time she wants to talk shit, she should look down at her feet and consider who paved the path she is walking on. Oh, wait, she can’t look down at her feet because she’s too busy holding onto her belt with a neck brace,” Rousey added. “And then she goes on and says I lied about training in Judo in Canada in 2006. Who the f—k are you to call me a liar? I was training there for five months. B—ch, you weren’t even there.”
Rousey was referencing a story that Harrison told on that same podcast where she called her irrelevant (details here)
“Over the last decade and a half of being a public figure, I’ve cultivated a reputation for being unabashedly truthful,” Rousey said,. “This b—ch just got here, and she’s already been caught in a lie. What did she say after she won the belt? She said, ‘Oh, I’m never gonna say anything bad about Ronda, she took care of me and bought me groceries.’ How about you shut the f—k up and eat your groceries.”
Rousey then took aim at how the now-canceled Harrison vs. Amanda Nunes was being promoted as “the greatest women’s fight of all time.”
“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 concluded. “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.”
Sheesh.
Rousey didn’t leave anything on the table.
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