{"id":334268,"date":"2025-12-08T05:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T05:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/334268\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T05:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T05:29:09","slug":"dana-white-slams-ronda-rousey-vs-katie-taylor-report-during-ufc-323-presser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/334268\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White slams Ronda Rousey vs. Katie Taylor report during UFC 323 presser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dana White has trashed a report claiming that Ronda Rousey and Katie Taylor are in talks for a boxing match.<\/p>\n<p>White had a busy night on Saturday with UFC 323 in Las Vegas, but he managed to get a question about the sweet science. It isn\u2019t surprising, given White\u2019s involvement with Zuffa Boxing. This time, White was asked about claims that Rousey vs. Taylor is being discussed for a possible clash in summer 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The UFC CEO responded by calling the report, \u201cTotal bulls*t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White was then asked if he thinks Rousey should return to fighting. He made it clear thar \u201cRowdy\u201d is within her right to do what makes her happy (via <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/12\/07\/dana-white-brutally-shuts-down-ronda-rousey-vs-katie-taylor-rumors-while-sharing-wwe-anecdote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bloody Elbow<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s up to her, you know what I mean?\u201d White said. \u201cI personally cannot say enough good things about Ronda Rousey. When she was going to the WWE, the WWE called me to ask. I said, \u2018I\u2019m telling you right now, she\u2019ll be the greatest athlete you\u2019ve ever worked with over there. I\u2019m telling you.\u2019 I can\u2019t say enough good things about her. She was great when she was here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rousey recently turned some heads with an MMA training video. The once dominant UFC Women\u2019s Bantamweight Champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-legend-ronda-rousey-admits-shes-finding-my-love-for-mma-again\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said her love for MMA was returning<\/a>. This led many to question whether or not Rousey is planning on making a comeback.<\/p>\n<p>Top MMA manager Ali Abdelaziz sees the dollar signs and has pounded the table for Kayla Harrison to fight Rousey. Abdelaziz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-324s-kayla-harrison-does-not-like-ronda-rousey-claims-manager\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">claims there is some bad blood between the two<\/a>, and he doesn\u2019t believe Harrison likes Rousey as a person. Whether or not such a matchup will be booked remains to be seen, as Harrison has to focus on her UFC 324 super fight against Amanda Nunes.<\/p>\n<p>BJPenn.com will keep you posted with the latest updates on Ronda Rousey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dana White has trashed a report claiming that Ronda Rousey and Katie Taylor are in talks for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-334268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}