{"id":627381,"date":"2026-04-24T07:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/627381\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:15:15","slug":"khamzat-chimaev-blasts-ronda-rousey-over-ufc-pay-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/627381\/","title":{"rendered":"Khamzat Chimaev blasts Ronda Rousey over UFC pay talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">And that doesn\u2019t sit well with current Middleweight champion, Khamzat Chimaev, who fired back at Rousey during a recent appearance on his YouTube channel \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2022\/11\/20\/23469450\/khamzat-chimaev-criticizes-francis-ngannou-over-fighter-pay-just-fight-the-moneys-coming\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">like a good independent contractor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThere would never have been Ronda Rousey without UFC,\u201d Chimaev said on his YouTube channel. \u201cI hate this. [One of his team calls her ungrateful, and Chimaev agrees]. If they pay good or don\u2019t pay good, who cares. When she was Olympic champ, what did she make then?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And that doesn\u2019t sit well with current Middleweight champion, Khamzat Chimaev, who fired back at Rousey during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,250320,85,1396,14855],"class_list":{"0":"post-627381","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-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-ronda-rousey-vs-gina-carano-netflix-news-hub","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ufc-news","16":"tag-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627381","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=627381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}