Newsweek Sports<\/a>. \u201cRonda Rousey\u2019s an Olympian that was a multi-time world champion. Gina Carano was pretty at a time when women\u2019s MMA sucked – I mean, it\u2019s still not very good, but when Gina Carano was fighting it was significantly worse.<\/p>\n\u201cRonda Rousey\u2019s going to f*cking steamroll her, and we\u2019re just gonna watch two middle-aged women f*cking going through menopause fight each other. \u2026 I don\u2019t know. I have no interest in that. Who gives a f*ck?\u201d<\/p>\n
Rousey, 39, was one of the most dominant champions in the UFC during her run atop the bantamweight division from 2013 to 2015. She frequently defeated challengers in seconds, which generated massive anticipation for her fights, and also built her profile outside of the cage later parlaying her notoriety into film roles and a successful professional wrestling sting with WWE.<\/p>\n
While Carano can\u2019t match Rousey\u2019s competitive accolades, she was a key figure in the rise of women\u2019s MMA in North America. In August 2009, Carano and Cris Cyborg became the first women ever to headline a major MMA event when they fought in the main event of a Strikeforce event that aired on Showtime. Cyborg defeated Carano, who went on to pursue a career in Hollywood and had not been booked for a fight until Most Valuable Promotions came calling.<\/p>\n
Strickland, known for making outlandish, offensive, and ignorant statements, including his belief that women shouldn\u2019t be allowed to vote, headlines UFC Houston this Saturday opposite Anthony Hernandez in a pivotal middleweight contenders\u2019 bout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Strickland, predictably, is not excited about the Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano news. Most Valuable Promotions announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-490450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490450","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=490450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}