{"id":673641,"date":"2026-05-16T00:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T00:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/673641\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T00:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T00:16:08","slug":"dakota-ditcheva-shames-ronda-rousey-over-disgraceful-comments-about-khamzat-chimaev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/673641\/","title":{"rendered":"Dakota Ditcheva Shames Ronda Rousey Over \u2018Disgraceful\u2019 Comments About Khamzat Chimaev"},"content":{"rendered":"

This wouldn\u2019t be the first time Chimaev\u2019s \u201crat lip\u201d<\/a> has been mentioned by a fellow fighter.<\/p>\n

Rousey\u2019s long-awaited return to competition will finally unfold tomorrow night (Sat., May 16, 2026) LIVE on Netflix from inside the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, Calif., when \u201cRowdy\u201d meets fellow women\u2019s MMA pioneer, Gina Carano, in the main event. It\u2019s expected to be a massive spectacle for Most Valuable Promotions (MVP), which will include appearances from former UFC stars like Nate Diaz, Francis Ngannou, and Mike Perry.<\/p>\n

Of course, Rousey is the star attraction. The former UFC women\u2019s bantamweight champion is making her first combat appearance since losing to Amanda Nunes nearly 10 years ago. Rousey\u2019s layoff and ongoing appeal to casual fight fans everywhere should funnel a hoard of watchers to Netflix on Saturday night. In turn, Rousey has experienced media exposure like she used to under the UFC banner, but that isn\u2019t always a good thing.<\/p>\n

Rousey now finds herself in some hot water after taking shots at Chimaev, who just lost his UFC middleweight title to Sean Strickland at UFC 328. Chimaev was asked about Rousey\u2019s matchup with Carano before his title fight with Strickland and didn\u2019t have too many nice things to say. This left Rousey enraged, which resulted in an insensitive outburst during Thursday\u2019s pre-fight press conference (watch HERE<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\u201cF\u2014king cleft lip Lincoln is just hating,\u201d said Rousey about Khamzat. \u201cNo one gives a s\u2014t about his ineffectual wrestle f\u2014kfests. Unlike Kumquat, I have 100% finish rate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, this didn\u2019t sit well with many people around the sport given Rousey\u2019s attack on Chimaev\u2019s physical ailment. One of the biggest current stars in women\u2019s MMA, PFL flyweight queen Dakota Ditcheva, was one of many who voiced her concern over Rousey\u2019s comments and essentially threw her fandom away.<\/p>\n

Check it out below and let us know if your view of Rousey changed after her recent comments!<\/p>\n

\u201cRonda\u2019s \u2018s comment towards Chimaev regarding his cleft palate was absolutely disgraceful,\u201d wrote Ditcheva. \u201cI am no longer a fan. As a mother, you should know better. The amount of young children navigating difficulties like that while you sit on a worldwide stage mocking it. Do better.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor all my twitter trolls lol,\u201d Ditcheva later wrote. \u201cAs a young woman & fighter, I have always looked up to Ronda & been inspired by her. Without being disrespectful, Chimaev, Sean and Jon were never my role models & not people I looked up to. I simply appreciate their skills in the cage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This wouldn\u2019t be the first time Chimaev\u2019s \u201crat lip\u201d has been mentioned by a fellow fighter. Rousey\u2019s long-awaited…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,8081,250320,85,1396],"class_list":["post-673641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-professional-fighters-league-pfl","tag-ronda-rousey-vs-gina-carano-netflix-news-hub","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673641","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=673641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}