Gina Carano is a massive betting underdog going into Saturday\u2019s fight with Ronda Rousey, but one retired UFC vet is going against the grain.<\/p>\n
Carano hasn\u2019t been in a pro MMA fight since 2009, while Rousey\u2019s most recent bout took place in late 2016. The two women\u2019s MMA pioneers will headline Most Valuable Promotion\u2019s first MMA event<\/a> inside the Intuit Dome in Inglewood. The event will be streamed live on Netflix.<\/p>\n During an edition of MMAFighting.com<\/a>\u2018s \u201cThe Fighter vs. The Writer,\u201d ex-UFC star Matt Brown admitted that he isn\u2019t expecting much<\/a> from the Rousey vs. Carano fight. Still, he believes Carano will be able to pull off the upset.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s going to be an ugly fight for the most part,\u201d Brown said. \u201cHere\u2019s why I\u2019m going to go with Gina Carano \u2014 I think Gina\u2019s naturally a little bit bigger than Ronda. I think during this down time, I don\u2019t know either of them personally, but I\u2019m going to assume just from the personalities that I know online and the media, that Carano probably attempted at least to stay in better shape. Where Ronda I think just quit training all together and was just out and now she\u2019s coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n Brown also admitted that he sides with Carano more as a person and has been put off by Rousey\u2019s past comments about MMA fans and the media. Even with his possible bias, he feels Rousey\u2019s game plan is easier to gauge than Carano\u2019s.<\/p>\n \u201cLastly, Ronda is a lot more predictable. For one thing, she doesn\u2019t go and shoot double legs. It\u2019s going to be a judo style takedown, which is a little bit more predictable. She\u2019s got to get in the clinch and try to attempt to throw. If Gina does some of the basic things, she should be able to mitigate that. With that said, it will probably be ugly as hell. Ugly as all hell. It\u2019s going to be nothing to write home about. I\u2019m going to go Carano and plus I\u2019m a bigger fan of Carano, too, so maybe a little bit of bias there too.\u201d<\/p>\n Do you think Gina Carano can pull off the upset over Ronda Rousey on Saturday? Sound off in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gina Carano is a massive betting underdog going into Saturday\u2019s fight with Ronda Rousey, but one retired UFC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-666659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666659","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=666659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}