Harrison took aim at Rousey <\/a>after she talked about an exercise that takes place between judokas, where it\u2019s like a marathon training session with the person in the middle staying there until somebody beats them. Rousey is an Olympic bronze medalist in judo and once shared as pot on the same U.S. team as Harrison, who went onto become a two-time Olympic gold medalist in judo.<\/p>\n\u201cSo she\u2019s online telling this story about how, \u2018Yeah, I had a lot of pride so I\u2019d be out there for an hour with these girls and then finally a 90-kilo guy would take pity on me and come out and throw me,\u2019\u201d Harrison said. \u201cDude, that is literally a blatant f*cking lie. Now you\u2019re just making shit up. That never happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Rousey responded in a fiery retort.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Kayla] says that I lied about training in judo in Canada in 2006. Who the f*ck are you to call me a liar?\u201d Rousey said. \u201cI was training there for five months. Bitch, you weren\u2019t even there. Over the last decade and a half of being a public figure, I have cultivated a reputation for being unabashedly truthful. This bitch just got here and was already caught in a lie.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did she say after she won the belt? \u2018Oh, I\u2019m never going to say anything bad about Ronda, she took care of me when I was broke in Japan, and she bought me groceries.\u2019 How about you shut the f*ck up and eat your groceries?\u201d<\/p>\n
During that same interview from March, Harrison also lamented that the Rousey vs. Carano fight is being touted as the biggest fight in women\u2019s MMA history, with the competitors involved returning from a combined 27 years out of action. Rousey last fought in 2016 when she suffered a second straight knockout loss before leaving the UFC, and Carano hasn\u2019t competed since 2009 when she was finished by Cris Cyborg in Strikeforce.<\/p>\n
Harrison called Rousey \u201cirrelevant\u201d at this stage of the game, especially as she prepares to defend her UFC title against Amanda Nunes, who is widely considered the greatest of all-time in women\u2019s MMA. Nunes was also the person who sent Rousey packing in her final UFC fight.<\/p>\n
\u201cGina is so relevant that she\u2019s the whole reason the 145-pound division even exists. I am so relevant that the only reason she has a job at the UFC is because of me,\u201d Rousey ranted. \u201cKayla is so irrelevant that she couldn\u2019t even keep the 145-pound division around. Honestly, she\u2019s just sour because no matter what she does or what she accomplishes, she can\u2019t change the fact that she has the charisma of a wet towel and will always be in me and Gina\u2019s shadow.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo the next time she wants to talk shit, she should look down at her feet and consider who paved the road that she\u2019s walking on. Oh wait, she can\u2019t look down at her feet because she\u2019s too busy holding onto the belt in a neck brace.\u201d<\/p>\n
That last insult stems from Harrison recently undergoing neck surgery that delayed her fight against Nunes, which was originally scheduled for UFC 324 in January.<\/p>\n
But even that cancelled fight got Rousey heated because Harrison vs. Nunes was supposed to serve as the co-main event on the card, with an interim lightweight title fight between Justin Gaethje and Paddy Pimblett set as the headliner.<\/p>\n
\u201cHer and Hunter [Campbell] acting like her next upcoming fight is the biggest women\u2019s fight of all time,\u201d Rousey said. \u201cThen why is it being booked as a co-main for a men\u2019s interim title fight?<\/p>\n
\u201cThe bitch isn\u2019t even bigger than Paddy the Baddy [Pimblett]. No offense to Paddy. He\u2019s got more potential than anybody in the UFC, and he should call me when his contract runs out.\u201d<\/p>\n
With Netflix backing the Rousey vs. Carano card with more than 325 million subscribers, it\u2019s easy to believe that the event is going to draw sizable viewership numbers.<\/p>\n
So Rousey could only scoff at the suggestion that Harrison\u2019s fight against Nunes is going to outdraw her upcoming showdown against Carano.<\/p>\n
In fact, Rousey believes her fight against Carano is going to crush every record when they finally set foot in the cage on May 16.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf she thinks that her fight is the biggest women\u2019s fight of all-time, why is she getting paid less now than I was 10 years ago?\u201d Rousey said. \u201cSo riddle me this, bitch, are you overvalued or are you overpaid? What really pisses me off more than anything else is how small she thinks. This is not just the biggest women\u2019s fight of all time; this is the biggest MMA fight of all time, it\u2019s going to get the most views on the biggest platform on the card with the biggest stars, and it was assembled by and will be headlined by two women who dared to dream big.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis dream is going to bring more opportunities and greater revenue share to fighters than they\u2019ve ever had before because this fight is bigger than just me and Gina. It\u2019s bigger than anybody on this stage. It represents an unstoppable force of change in this industry, spearheaded by the fighters themselves. You bet your f*cking ass this is the biggest MMA fight of all time. Bar none.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ronda Rousey doesn\u2019t have any animosity towards Gina Carano ahead of their upcoming fight, but that\u2019s certainly not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609670,"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-609669","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\/609669","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=609669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}