{"id":494909,"date":"2026-02-23T21:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494909\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T21:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:44:08","slug":"urijah-faber-disagrees-with-sean-strickland-on-ronda-rousey-vs-gina-carano-im-excited-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494909\/","title":{"rendered":"Urijah Faber disagrees with Sean Strickland on Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano: &#8216;I&#8217;m excited for it&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC Hall of Famer Urijah Faber doesn\u2019t share the same view that Sean Strickland does as far as the Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano bout is concerned.<\/p>\n<p>Strickland recently told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/sports\/mma\/sean-strickland-has-zero-interest-in-ronda-rousey-vs-gina-carano-who-gives-a-expletive-11538777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Newsweek Sports<\/a> that that he has no interest in the fight and said he thinks Rousey will \u201csteamroll\u201d Carano. The former UFC Middleweight Champion also shared his belief that Carano simply got attention because she was \u201chot\u201d during a period when women\u2019s MMA was \u201csucked.\u201d\u2018<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2026\/02\/23\/ufc-legend-urijah-faber-defends-rousey-vs-carano-fight-i-dont-agree-with-sean-strickland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bloody Elbow<\/a> got a chance to speak to Faber, who shared a different take from Strickland dismissive comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t agree with Sean Strickland, who\u2019s not excited about that match,\u201d Faber said. \u201cFirst of all, Gina Carano didn\u2019t suck. She\u2019s a bad chick. Her dad is a friend of mine. He was a professional football player for a lot of years, and an amazing athlete himself. And she was a knockout artist; she was tough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think her and Rousey is going to be a great match. I\u2019m excited for it. I do wish it was on a UFC card. Hopefully, they are going to get compensated. The UFC, we are not worried about the UFC. They are in a good place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carano was once the most talked about name in women\u2019s MMA, but when she stepped away from the sport, Rousey emerged. \u201cRowdy\u201d became a pioneer for women\u2019s MMA, and she competed in UFC\u2019s first female bout in 2013. Rousey submitted Liz Carmouche in the historic fight.<\/p>\n<p>Rousey vs. Carano is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ronda-rousey\/mma-fans-react-to-ronda-rousey-vs-gina-carano-booking-for-netflix-event\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scheduled to take place on May 16<\/a>. It\u2019ll be the first live MMA event to air on the Netflix streaming service. The bout is being promoted by Jake Paul\u2019s Most Valuable Promotions.<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with Urijah Faber or Sean Strickland on the upcoming clash between Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano? Share your opinion in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC Hall of Famer Urijah Faber doesn\u2019t share the same view that Sean Strickland does as far as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-494909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494909","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=494909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}