Ronda Rousey is falling back in love with the sport of MMA almost nine years after she left the sport following two violent losses.<\/p>\n
Rousey was the second biggest name in the sport for years and carried the women\u2019s bantamweight division on her back for years after the UFC added females to the sport in 2013. But a bad knockout loss to Holly Holm and a quick stoppage against Amanda Nunes in 2016 pushed her to retire. She later said that concussions suffered through her entire combat sports career left her unable to even take a jab.<\/a><\/p>\n But after giving birth to her second child at the beginning of 2025, Rousey started training again to get back into shape. Now she\u2019s fighting fit and continuing to train. For what exactly? Rumors have her positioned<\/a> to fight Kayla Harrison, and her latest social media postings aren\u2019t going to quiet that speculation.<\/p>\n The new video from Rousey shows her working on her striking, contrasting a video she took after giving birth to how she\u2019s performing now.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom 8 weeks after having a baby and 8 years of stepping away from MMA to 8 months postpartum and finding my love for it again,\u201d Rousey captioned the video. \u201cThe first clip is my first session working with AJ Matthews. I was super self conscious, embarrassed of how much I regressed, and honestly trying my very best not to pee my pants throwing punches so soon after having baby P\u0101\u2019\u016b.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSecond clip was yesterday, I\u2019ve never laughed or smiled so much on the mat as I do these days. The last 6 months have been an absolute blast, feels like I have so much left to grow, and without the weight of the world on my shoulders nothing is holding me back.\u201d<\/p>\n So could we see a UFC return from Rousey? Current UFC women\u2019s bantamweight champion Kayla Harrison has hinted that \u201cRowdy\u201d could be her opponent at the big UFC White House card at the end of June.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter I whoop up on Amanda, I\u2019m going to fight hopefully someone in particular at the White House, and I think it\u2019s going to really play out nicely, it\u2019s going to be sick,\u201d Harrison told ESPN. \u201cI can\u2019t say [who] yet because it\u2019s not all in my control. Some things have to happen in order for this plan to happen, if that makes sense. You\u2019ve got to be in the right time, right place. Give it time, let it simmer.\u201d<\/p>\n As for what Ronda has said of a return, she\u2019s implied that the right opportunity for the right amount of money could draw her back. The only issue? She is about as far from a Donald Trump supporter as possible, once saying Dana White asked her not to trash talk his buddy in public.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not fighting at the White House,\u201d she declared in a recent podcast appearance.<\/a> \u201cAfter Mike Tyson being in the biggest fight of the year, you never say never. But I ain\u2019t fighting at the f–king White House \u2026 I got better s–t to do. My kid needs pasta.\u201d<\/p>\n It seems like nothing is easy for UFC when it comes to setting up fights involving its biggest names. Fortunately, the UFC already has Conor McGregor<\/a> and Jon Jones<\/a> clamoring to fight at the White House. And if they want to splash Rousey with cash in 2026 for a return fight, maybe we get that on another date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ronda Rousey is falling back in love with the sport of MMA almost nine years after she left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-161493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}