A former UFC star believes Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano will ultimately be a time waster.
Rousey and Carano are scheduled to make their comebacks in the main event of a Most Valuable Promotions card on May 16. The event will air live on Netflix and will feature a slew of notable names on the undercard. Ex-UFC fan favorites Nate Diaz and Mike Perry are set to collide. Former UFC Heavyweight Champion Francis Ngannou will share the cage with Philipe Lins.
In a chat with Damon Martin for the latest edition of MMAFighting‘s “The Fighter vs. The Writer,” Matt Brown was clearly down on the Rousey vs. Carano matchup. He even made comparisons to Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson.
“It will do big numbers but who is actually going to care?” Brown said. “How many times are going to walk away from a fight — like you were just talking about with Jake Paul and Mike Tyson — and kind of feel icky and wish that we didn’t watch it? I think we’re going to feel the same thing with this fight. Feel like we wasted our time. Maybe not feel icky but we’re going to feel like we wasted our time.
“How many times are we going to do that? At some point it’s going to play itself out. Probably if anything it’s all going to help the UFC. People are going to become fight fans and they’re like ‘I’m sick of this shit, can I just watch a real godd*amn fight? Oh yeah, we have a place that does that. It has all the best fights in the world. The UFC.”
Rousey hasn’t competed in MMA since late 2016. It’s been even longer for Carano, who was last seen inside the cage all the way back in Aug. 2009. Both stars were pioneers for women’s MMA in their era, but the question remains: how much fight do either of them have left?
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