{"id":533605,"date":"2026-03-11T16:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/533605\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T16:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:03:07","slug":"valentina-shevchenko-fires-back-at-ronda-rousey-over-onlyfans-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/533605\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentina Shevchenko fires back at Ronda Rousey over OnlyFans comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ronda Rousey went after her former employers at the UFC on Tuesday in a wild rant aimed at fighter pay and how so many athletes are forced to seek supplemental income as a result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Somehow UFC women\u2019s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko caught a stray when Rousey referenced how some fighters have even started working with OnlyFans to make ends meet. OnlyFans is a subscription based platform where creators can post photos and videos with the website primarily driven by adult themed content.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt\u2019s why so many of their top athletes are leaving to go and find pay elsewhere,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/womens-combat\/476177\/ronda-rousey-ufc-now-one-of-the-worst-places-to-go-for-fighters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rousey said<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s why their champions like Valentina [Shevchenko] are selling pictures of their titties on OnlyFans. These people, a lot of them at the ground level, they can\u2019t support their families. They\u2019re living poverty-level fighting full-time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It didn\u2019t take long for Shevchenko to see the comments and fire back at Rousey about her involvement with OnlyFans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt\u2019s 2026. Fighters using OnlyFans is just a new way to connect with fans,\u201d Shevchenko wrote on social media. \u201cLooks like Ronda slept too long after her last fight in 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Shevchenko, who is also ranked by the UFC as the No. 1 pound-for-pound women\u2019s fighter, has been a mainstay on the roster since 2015 including two separate reigns as flyweight champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Obviously she didn\u2019t take too kindly to Rousey dragging her name in the mud when discussing her issues with UFC fighter pay. Rousey only recently started discussing her problems with the UFC and fighter pay as she promotes her upcoming return to action against Gina Carano on May 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Of course at her peak, Rousey was one of the biggest stars in the UFC after serving as women\u2019s bantamweight champion for over two years. Now as she makes her first appearance for a fight in almost a decade, Rousey is suddenly taking aim at the UFC but Shevchenko clearly isn\u2019t impressed that she somehow got involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ronda Rousey went after her former employers at the UFC on Tuesday in a wild rant aimed at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533606,"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-533605","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\/533605","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=533605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}