{"id":593177,"date":"2026-04-08T10:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/593177\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:06:19","slug":"ronda-rouseys-bold-training-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/593177\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronda Rousey’s Bold Training Move"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ronda Rousey<\/a> (12-2) has confirmed that Ricky Lundell\u2014the man she once \u201chated with a passion\u201d during her rivalry with Miesha Tate\u2014is serving as her head coach for her upcoming return against Gina Carano.<\/p>\n

The Hall of Famer will end her decade-long hiatus on May 16, 2026, headlining the first-ever live MMA event on Netflix at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, against Gina Carano. The history between Rousey and Lundell is rooted in the The Ultimate Fighter 18 (2013), where Lundell was a key assistant for Team Tate.<\/p>\n

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Rousey admitted that she found Lundell\u2019s famously polite demeanor insufferable during the filming of the show. The bridge between the two was actually Rousey\u2019s husband, former UFC heavyweight Travis Browne. Lundell coached Browne for years, and over time, Rousey found herself spending more time around Lundell\u2019s circle.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were mortal enemies. Started off as mortal enemies. He was coaching against me on The Ultimate Fighter and he was so nice, I was like this m*********** is so patronizing and fake and I hated his guts. It was like the monkey in the closet from Family Guy. That was me to Ricky all the time.\u201cThis is a common theme, by the way, that he\u2019s so nice that everyone was like \u2018this m********* is not for real.\u2019 He\u2019s really just being a passive-aggressive a******, but he\u2019s actually the nicest m***********. Actually, the nicest person you will ever meet. So nice that you don\u2019t think it\u2019s real,\u201d Rousey said<\/a><\/p>\n

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Lundell has worked with some of the most dominant wrestlers in MMA history, including Brock Lesnar and Frank Mir. Unlike her previous coaching staff, who often tried to turn her into a world-class boxer, Lundell is likely to focus on chain-wrestling and positional dominance. In a fight against Carano\u2014who was primarily a Muay Thai specialist\u2014Rousey doesn\u2019t need to out-strike her; she needs the sophisticated entries to get the fight to the floor safely. <\/p>\n

The primary concern is whether a 39-year-old Rousey can physically implement a new system after 10 years of muscle memory in a different style. Lundell\u2019s systems are often based on high-level collegiate wrestling transitions. While Rousey is an Olympic Judoka, the rhythm of wrestling is fundamentally different from Judo. <\/p>\n

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