{"id":677070,"date":"2026-05-18T08:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/677070\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T08:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:03:18","slug":"ronda-rousey-hid-injury-before-mvp-mma-1-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/677070\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronda Rousey hid injury before MVP MMA 1 comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) women\u2019s Bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey needed just 17 seconds to submit fellow women\u2019s MMA pioneer<\/a> Gina Carano in the main event of MVP MMA 1<\/a> last night (Sat., May 16, 2026) inside Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, California (watch highlights<\/a>).<\/p>\n

But according to \u201cRowdy,\u201d she wasn\u2019t anywhere close to 100 percent heading into her long-awaited return.<\/p>\n

During the post-fight press conference (watch here<\/a>), Rousey revealed she badly injured her foot and ankle less than three weeks before the fight and spent the remainder of camp trying to hide it from the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cI sprained my ankle or foot pretty bad two and a half weeks ago,\u201d Rousey explained. \u201cI was thinking of my first injury as a kid \u2014 I broke my big toe in judo, and my mom made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRight when I hurt my ankle and I had two weeks left, I was like, \u2018Well, looks like I\u2019m doing this hurt,\u2019\u201d she continued. \u201cI\u2019ve never had a fight where I wasn\u2019t injured in some way. I\u2019ve never pulled out of a fight because I was always going to fight \u2014 it\u2019s just part of it, and I\u2019m the f\u2014king best at this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was definitely trying not to look hurt during the open workouts and trying not to hold myself back,\u201d Rousey said. \u201cI really re-aggravated it and had to dig deep all week. I was trying so hard not to limp, and during early morning weigh-ins, it\u2019s usually worse in the morning, so yeah, I was trying not to visibly limp in front of everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fortunately for Rousey, she didn\u2019t have to spend much time testing the injury inside the cage.<\/p>\n

The former UFC champion stormed across the cage seconds after the opening bell, quickly tackled Carano to the mat<\/a>, and secured the submission moments later in classic \u201cRowdy\u201d fashion.<\/p>\n

The victory officially closed the chapter on Rousey\u2019s MMA career, as she confirmed once again that the Netflix event would be her retirement fight. Moving forward, Rousey plans to focus on family life and potentially help MVP MMA behind the scenes as the promotion continues expanding into the sport.<\/p>\n

For complete \u2018Rousey vs. Carano\u2019 fight card results, coverage, and highlights click HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) women\u2019s Bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey needed just 17 seconds to submit fellow women\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,197642,82,3194],"class_list":["post-677070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-ronda-rousey-vs-gina-carano-netflix-news-hub","tag-sports","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677070","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=677070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}