{"id":319096,"date":"2025-12-01T20:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/319096\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T20:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:31:08","slug":"report-ronda-rousey-in-active-negotiations-for-katie-taylor-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/319096\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Ronda Rousey in active negotiations for Katie Taylor fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That\u2019s according to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingscene.com\/articles\/katie-taylor-vs-ronda-rousey-in-the-works-for-las-vegas-showdown-in-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boxing Scene<\/a>, which claims \u201cRowdy\u201d is currently in \u201cactive negotiations\u201d with two-time undisputed boxing champion Katie Taylor. The proposed bout has also \u201cdrawn the interest of Netflix,\u201d which continues <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/11\/16\/24297276\/full-fight-video-highlights-jake-paul-vs-mike-tyson-results-netflix-boxing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">its infatuation with bizarre boxing bouts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Rousey rose to fame as the UFC women\u2019s bantamweight champion, destroying her first six opponents inside the Octagon. Unfortunately for \u201cRowdy,\u201d her hype train crashed and burned when she was paired against superior strikers in the form of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2016\/2\/16\/11017060\/ufc-emotional-ronda-rousey-ellen-literally-thinking-about-killing-myself-still-undefeated-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Holly Holm<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2021\/2\/21\/22294709\/ufc-259-free-fight-watch-amanda-nunes-nuke-ronda-rousey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda Nunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">What the 38 year-old judoka hopes to bring against a seasoned pro like Taylor (25-1, 6 KOs) is a mystery, especially when you consider that Rousey has not competed in nearly nine years. Nevertheless, her UFC legacy (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/2\/12\/24071042\/ronda-rousey-experiment-proved-wwe-too-hard-catered-to-ufc-fighters-they-dont-have-stamina-for-it\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">and WWE run<\/a>) will likely be enough to command a sizable audience if and when this bout lands in Las Vegas in summer 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That\u2019s according to a report from Boxing Scene, which claims \u201cRowdy\u201d is currently in \u201cactive negotiations\u201d with two-time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[36109,49,48,641,33601,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-319096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319096","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=319096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}