{"id":681915,"date":"2026-05-20T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/681915\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:00:08","slug":"rousey-post-fight-statement-congratulates-carano-for-losing-100-pounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/681915\/","title":{"rendered":"Rousey post-fight statement congratulates Carano for losing 100 pounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aside from the money and the ratings,<\/a> what exactly was the point of Rousey spending her final MMA fight competing against Carano? According to a new statement from Ronda<\/a> released on Tuesday afternoon, it was to help Carano heal her body, which in turn helped Rousey heal her own soul.<\/p>\n

\u201cMe and Gina literally fought to fight each other,\u201d Rousey wrote. \u201cI kept hearing people say \u2018She\u2019s not serious,\u2019 \u2018She can\u2019t lose the weight,\u2019 but I didn\u2019t just want to come back to fight, I HAD to come back to fight HER. The story we could tell together was one I desperately needed to believe: That you\u2019re never too low to rise again, that your body is never too far gone to reclaim, and that it\u2019s never too late to be better than you\u2019ve ever been.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHer bravery astounded me,\u201d Rousey continued. \u201cAt her lowest point she set her highest goal \u2014 to lose 100lbs and take on the baddest bitch on the planet! What I never could have expected was seeing how that woman transformed over the following year would give me just as much joy as my own transformation. Every time I saw her she was stronger, more confident, more beautiful than ever \u2014 not because she was losing weight but because that light she had lost was growing brighter and brighter.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201dAt the same time I was peeling back the layers of my own walls I\u2019d put up and rediscovering a world that was so ingrained in the fabric of my soul but was too proud to admit I needed. I love MMA, I love judo, pro wrestling, fight choreography, acting and writing \u2014 but I am before anything else a martial artist. I\u2019m better at MMA than I ever was at anything else \u2014 and f–k who this may offend, but I am the best to have ever done it and nothing can compare to the experience of creating within my craft.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am the one fortunate enough to experience that level of mastery and I\u2019ll never let anyone shame me away from embracing it ever again \u2026 It healed my soul \u2026 The fight is over, it\u2019s bitter sweet because for the first time the experience of preparing for the fight eclipsed the joy any victory could have brought. But I\u2019m finally ready to move on, this time with my head held high.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rousey had previously left the sport of MMA on a two fight losing skid, with both being bad KO losses.<\/a> Now she has this final W on her record, and that\u2019s clearly what matters to her above all else. With another year in the cage she could answer a lot of questions. She could fight Cris Cyborg<\/a> or Kayla Harrison<\/a> or Amanda Nunes<\/a> or Holly Holm.<\/a> Instead she\u2019s taken the easy win and will walk away happy with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aside from the money and the ratings, what exactly was the point of Rousey spending her final MMA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,197642,82],"class_list":["post-681915","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681915","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=681915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}