A familiar face is open to fighting Ronda Rousey again.<\/p>\n
Rousey hasn\u2019t stepped inside the Octagon since late 2016. The UFC women\u2019s pioneer was stopped by Amanda Nunes via TKO in 48 seconds. In the bout prior to that, she was brutally knocked out by Holly Holm in her first pro MMA defeat. The loss to Holm was jarring for \u201cRowdy\u201d and it ultimately led to her exit from combat sports.<\/p>\n
As of late, Rousey has admitted that she\u2019s finding her love for MMA once again. During an appearance on \u201cThe Ariel Helwani Show,\u201d<\/a> Holm said that if Rousey is feeling the itch to return to the sport, she wouldn\u2019t mind being her dance partner one more time (via MMAJunkie<\/a>).<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve always been open to a rematch with her. I still am,\u201d Holm said. \u201cShe\u2019s been training. I have always been open to a rematch with Ronda. I just don\u2019t know if she ever wanted to have one. Not spitting out negativity with Dana (White), the UFC, nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n Holm admitted that she is unsure if Rousey is motivated enough to want to put back on the gloves again.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know if she does (want to come back),\u201d Holm said. \u201cI mean, here\u2019s the thing about any athlete: She\u2019s been an Olympian, she\u2019s been a champion, and you don\u2019t get to that point without having that fight in you. So, you can\u2019t ever count anybody out. Maybe she does. I would have never thought it or seen it. She\u2019s got a family. Nothing wrong with that. Maybe she\u2019s just enjoying her life that way. Maybe she\u2019s loving being able to get back into training and things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n A report from BoxingScene claimed that Rousey is in talks to fight future boxing Hall of Famer Katie Taylor<\/a> in summer 2026. UFC CEO Dana White has claimed that the report isn\u2019t true<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A familiar face is open to fighting Ronda Rousey again. Rousey hasn\u2019t stepped inside the Octagon since late…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-353947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353947","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=353947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}