pre-fight press conference<\/a>, Rousey went on a wild rant about UFC fighter pay after Jones\u2019 recent statement.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s just not about putting on the best fights possible anymore. Dana isn\u2019t the owner, he isn\u2019t calling the shots, and running things the way that he wants. He\u2019s an employee of the company now\u2026and it was a big mistake of theirs to not allow Dana to run things the way he always has,\u201d Rousey exclaimed.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Dana] knows the White House card sucks, that they were pushing this for over a year and it fell extremely short of expectations. He was so upset about it, that he was talking about a fight falling out the day before. I can guarantee you that he\u2019s not happy with it either. It used to be that the UFC was the best place to go in combat sports to make a living and be paid fairly, and now the UFC is one of the worst places to go. It\u2019s why so many of their top athletes are leaving to find pay elsewhere, and their champions like Valentina [Shevchenko] are selling pictures of their t\u2014\u2013 on OnlyFans.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of them at the ground level, they can\u2019t support their families and live at a poverty level, fighting full-time,\u201d Rousey continued. \u201cThis company just got $7.7 billion; there\u2019s no reason that they can\u2019t afford to pay their athletes at least a living wage.\u201d<\/p>\n
Former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou, who sat a few feet away from Rousey during her rant, was then asked to give his thoughts on her assessment of the UFC\u2019s business practices.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m happy that I\u2019m out of that, that\u2019s all that I can say [LAUGHS],\u201d Ngannou said.<\/p>\n
As of this writing, White and the other UFC executives remain silent in response to Rousey, Ngannou, and Jones\u2019 recent remarks.<\/p>\n
Do you agree with Ronda Rousey\u2019s stance against the UFC and Dana White? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC Hall of Famer Ronda Rousey exploded on Dana White and her former promotion at the inaugural press…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,958,786,44069,785,15809,85,787],"class_list":["post-531940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dana-white","tag-fighting","tag-gina-carano","tag-mma","tag-ronda-rousey","tag-sports","tag-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531940","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=531940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}