{"id":584629,"date":"2026-04-04T08:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584629\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T08:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:34:08","slug":"ronda-rousey-continues-to-rage-against-too-comfortable-ufc-worst-place-to-make-money-in-combat-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584629\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronda Rousey continues to rage against \u2018too comfortable\u2019 UFC: \u2018Worst place to make money in combat sports\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

For many years, Rousey was famously one of UFC CEO Dana White\u2019s favorite fighters, a true friend<\/a> and company women. Since ending her retirement to return versus Gina Carano at the inaugural MVP MMA event<\/a> on Netflix, however, Rousey has been openly critical of the promotion. She\u2019s consistently tried to avoid trashing White himself, but Rousey really hasn\u2019t held back in her critics of the current UFC executives who run the show.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like we\u2019re in a crossroads for the sport, and this is the beginning of a big change that is long overdue,\u201d Rousey said on her YouTube channel (via MMA Fighting<\/a>). \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<\/p>\n

\u201cIt 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. And I\u2019ve always been an \u2018anti\u2019 kind of bitch. [Laughs]\u201d<\/p>\n

Again, Rousey lays the blame at the feet of the executives like Hunter Campbell, not Dana White. According to the \u201cRowdy\u201d former champion, White no longer has control of negotiations or matchmaking (something he recently admitted under oath)<\/a>.<\/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 reigns away from Dana they\u2019ve really lost their way, and they 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, because they\u2019ve got their streaming, and \u2018F\u2014k you, we got ours.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they need to be reminded of the precariousness of their situation, and they need to start appreciating the fighters that give everything that they do any value at all. I think that they\u2019ve forgotten that, and I\u2019m coming to remind them.\u201d<\/p>\n

For a complete look at the \u201cRousey vs. Carano\u201d-led MVP MMA 1 event on May 16, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For many years, Rousey was famously one of UFC CEO Dana White\u2019s favorite fighters, a true friend and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,250320,85],"class_list":["post-584629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-ronda-rousey-vs-gina-carano-netflix-news-hub","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584629","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=584629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}