UFC Hall of Famer Ronda Rousey teamed up with her biggest rival\u2019s longtime coach ahead of her fight against Gina Carano.<\/p>\n
Ronda Rousey will return to the MMA cage against fellow women\u2019s MMA pioneer, Gina Carano, in a highly anticipated fight next month in Los Angeles. It\u2019ll mark Rousey\u2019s first fight since back-to-back UFC losses to Amanda Nunes and Holly Holm, and Carano\u2019s first fight in almost two full decades.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a massive fight for both parties, as Rousey looks to add another win to her resume and put her late UFC struggles in the rearview mirror. As she enters her first training camp in 10 years, Rousey opted to seek the help of someone she used to loathe.<\/p>\n
Rousey and former UFC women\u2019s bantamweight champion Miesha Tate had one of the biggest rivalries in MMA history<\/a>. Their time coaching against one another on The Ultimate Fighter remains one of the most entertaining pairings in the show\u2019s lore.<\/p>\n Rousey didn\u2019t get along with Tate and her team during the season, although she\u2019s since turned over a new leaf and sought the services of one of Tate\u2019s longtime allies.<\/p>\n Ronda Rousey teams up with Miesha Tate\u2019s longtime coach despite a hostile past<\/p>\n In a recent video on her YouTube<\/a> channel, Rousey explained why she opted to team up with Tate\u2019s former coach, Ricky Lundell, ahead of the Carano fight.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cWe were mortal enemies,\u201d Rousey said.<\/p>\n \u201cStarted off as mortal enemies. He was coaching against me on The Ultimate Fighter and he was so nice, I was like this m*********** is so patronizing and fake and I hated his guts. It was like the monkey in the closet from Family Guy. That was me to Ricky all the time.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a common theme, by the way, that he\u2019s so nice that everyone was like \u2018this m********* is not for real.\u2019 He\u2019s really just being a passive-aggressive a******, but he\u2019s actually the nicest m***********,\u201d Rousey continued. \u201cActually, the nicest person you will ever meet. So nice that you don\u2019t think it\u2019s real.\u201d (h\/t MMA Fighting<\/a>)<\/p>\n What is your prediction for Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC Hall of Famer Ronda Rousey teamed up with her biggest rival\u2019s longtime coach ahead of her fight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,146728,223941,638,1867,82,640],"class_list":{"0":"post-586646","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-gina-carano","12":"tag-miesha-tate","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-ronda-rousey","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586646","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=586646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}