{"id":833297,"date":"2026-07-30T11:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/833297\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T11:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:21:10","slug":"rousey-on-possible-return-for-mvp-mma-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/833297\/","title":{"rendered":"Rousey On Possible Return For MVP MMA 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ronda Rousey has left the door open for a second Most Valuable Promotions appearance despite announcing her retirement after defeating <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/gina-carano\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gina Carano<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The former UFC <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/bantamweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bantamweight<\/a> champion returned to MMA in May following a decade away from the sport, submitting Carano in the opening round of the Netflix-streamed MVP event. Rousey walked away immediately after the win but now signals a possible change of heart.<\/p>\n<p>Rousey Reconsidering Retirement After MVP Debut<\/p>\n<p>When asked by Fight Culture whether she would compete at a potential MVP MMA 2 card, the 39-year-old offered a measured response. &#8220;We&#8217;ll see,&#8221; Rousey said, per Sherdog. &#8220;We need to kind of reconvene and see what the future looks like. I think everyone is just kind of decompressing and getting back to post-that huge of an event fight life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rousey compiled a 13-2 record across her UFC and MVP runs. She defended the UFC title five consecutive times before dropping back-to-back fights to <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/holly-holm\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Holly Holm<\/a> and Amanda Nunes, then spent several years in WWE before the Carano comeback.<\/p>\n<p>MVP has not announced plans for a second MMA event or potential opponents should Rousey return to the cage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sources-heading\">Original reporting:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ronda Rousey has left the door open for a second Most Valuable Promotions appearance despite announcing her retirement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-833297","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\/833297","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=833297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}