social media<\/a>. \u201cI just weighed in at 141.4 lbs. Since [September] 2024 to today, May 15, 2026, I have lost 100 pounds. It hurts to say that and share but I am going to share it because I worked so damn hard every week for over a year and a half to shed this weight. It did not happen overnight.<\/p>\n\u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for having this incredibly challenging goal in fighting [Ronda Rousey] I most definitely wouldn\u2019t have reached this. I was pre-diabetic, had trouble simply walking in September 2024 and have been on the path to recovery to turn myself back into an athlete since then. It was hard, so damn hard.. there was so much to learn, too much to unpack here \u2014 ups, downs, plateaus, things I learned late I wish I learned earlier, trial by error but I did it. Thank you to Ronda, who waited patiently while I lost this weight and giving me something to aim for. There is still so much I need to learn and want to do in the health space and to continue transforming my body, but for today, I thank God, my husband and my family for sticking with and encouraging me the whole way. I pray this encourages you wherever you are in your health journey. Believe there is hope. Never give up.<\/p>\n
\u201cOK.. enough emo, I\u2019ve got a fight tomorrow. We\u2019ve worked so hard to get here. Tune in.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Carano\u2019s most recent fight in August 2009, she was stopped by Cris Cyborg in the main event of their featherweight title fight in Strikeforce. That was the lone loss of Carano\u2019s career, and now she hopes to keep the Cinderella story rolling on against Rousey as a massive underdog.<\/p>\n
Rousey was stopped by Holly Holm in November 2015 at UFC 193 and Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 in December 2016 in her two most recent mixed martial arts bouts. \u201cRowdy\u201d went on to a pro wrestling career with WWE, and now returns to MMA, where she was one of the biggest stars in the history of the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gina Carano has had quite the journey to get to her big return to the cage against Ronda…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,270175,324901,85],"class_list":["post-673474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-mvp-mma","tag-mvp-mma-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673474","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=673474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}