podcast<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t know if Gina can get another walk. I don\u2019t know if she can get another contract. It would be tough, and you\u2019d need a lot of really perfect things to happen to get Gina, particularly in a headlining role. But that\u2019s what happened with the Ronda fight.<\/p>\n\u201cNobody thought 240-pound, ex-fighter, 17 years removed, was going to get a headlining role, that sets records, that pays millions of dollars. Nobody thought [that would happen], but everything lined up just right. So, it can be done, as long as the ingredient that she cares is part of this. And that\u2019s why it was so helpful that coach Wood came out and said she\u2019s gutted.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whether or not Carano does care enough to attempt another fight remains a question. But if she does wish to have another crack at it, Sonnen believes this was the correct step to make that happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is great, because when Gina got up and smiled, and talked about how wonderful this was, and how proud she was for this moment, how grateful, it does break the deal with the audience,\u201d Sonnen said.<\/p>\n
\u201c \u2026 It literally could end her career that she got up and smiled and hugged it out, because now she\u2019s letting everyone know, \u2018I don\u2019t care.\u2019 And if you don\u2019t care, then we can\u2019t care. It\u2019s not possible. \u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cNow what does she need? She needs to get back to the gym. Again, it\u2019s just a story, guys. We don\u2019t know if she didn\u2019t care just because she looked like she didn\u2019t. We don\u2019t know if she\u2019s gutted, just because her coach said she was. We don\u2019t know if she\u2019s back in the gym. It\u2019s a story. But the story has to be told this way. If she truly cares and this is a passion of hers, she\u2019d be back in the gym. \u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cThen, once you set the table in this way \u2014 she cares, she\u2019s back, she\u2019s in shape, she\u2019s embarrassed, she\u2019s coming back \u2014 then the fourth and final ingredient, which comes about a week from now, then you tell us the proposed opponent.\u201d<\/p>\n
But who should that opponent be? A rematch with Rousey is off the table, but Sonnen thinks there\u2019s one undeniable option: the woman who first defeated Rousey, Holly Holm.<\/p>\n
\u201cGina\u2019s putting pieces, but the final one is who? And then you\u2019ve got to sit back and react. I don\u2019t know what the community is going to do to the idea of Gina vs. Holly Holm. I just know that\u2019s the direction. That\u2019s the only possible direction. So you\u2019ve got to build it, you\u2019ve got to set it out there, and the community is going to jump on it. They\u2019re either going to like it, or they\u2019re not. But that\u2019s still the way the game is played.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gina Carano should be setting up a fight with Holly Holm, or so says Chael Sonnen. This past…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,270175,324901,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-689564","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","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689564","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=689564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}