UFC Hall of Famer Ronda Rousey doubled down on her fiery remarks about her former promotion ahead of her MMA comeback.<\/p>\n
Ronda Rousey is weeks away from her first Mixed Martial Arts fight in ten years, as she prepares to face women\u2019s MMA pioneer Gina Carano in a Most Valuable Promotions headliner. This will mark Rousey\u2019s first fight since back-to-back losses to Holly Holm and Amanda Nunes in the UFC Octagon.<\/p>\n
Rousey\u2019s legacy in Mixed Martial Arts is already set in stone ahead of the highly anticipated event. But Rousey\u2019s relationship with her former promotion has become foggy in recent weeks, as demonstrated by her recent remarks.<\/p>\n
Rousey has repeatedly taunted the UFC in recent weeks, especially ahead of the promotion\u2019s card at the White House. The former UFC women\u2019s bantamweight champion has repeatedly criticized UFC fighter pay<\/a> and taken personal shots at matchmaker Hunter Campbell.<\/p>\n While Rousey made headlines in front of the cameras at the first Carano fight press conference, she hasn\u2019t slowed down in her criticism of the UFC.<\/p>\n Ronda Rousey fears Mixed Martial Arts is at a \u2018crossroads\u2019 because of the UFC<\/p>\n In a recent video uploaded to her YouTube<\/a> channel, Rousey reignited her ongoing feud against the UFC brass.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cI feel like we\u2019re at a crossroads for the sport, and this is the beginning of a big change that is long overdue,\u201d Rousey said.<\/p>\n \u201cI meant it when I said that the UFC is suffering from a lack of competition. They\u2019ve become too comfortable with being the dominant force in the industry, and just making fighters offers where they go, \u2018Take it or leave it, what else are you going to do?\u2019 It used to be that UFC was the best way to make money in combat sports. Now it\u2019s becoming the worst place to make money in combat sports. It used to be anti-establishment, and now it\u2019s become the establishment\u2026<\/p>\n \u201cDon\u2019t get me wrong, I\u2019ve always been a company woman, and was very grateful while I was there, but I feel like since they\u2019ve taken the reins away from Dana they\u2019ve really lost their way,\u201d Rousey continued. \u201cThey think that they\u2019re too big to fail, and that they can just disappoint the fans over and over, and they don\u2019t care how many casual fans they lose.\u201d (h\/t MMA Fighting<\/a>)<\/p>\n As of this writing, UFC CEO Dana White has yet to respond to Rousey\u2019s public remarks about the promotion. Rousey entered the UFC Hall of Fame in 2018.<\/p>\n What is your prediction for Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC Hall of Famer Ronda Rousey doubled down on her fiery remarks about her former promotion ahead of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583925,"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":{"0":"post-584005","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-dana-white","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-gina-carano","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-ronda-rousey","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584005","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=584005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}