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Ronda Rousey hasn’t contended in blended martial arts consideringthat she lost a champion battle to Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 in December2016 But she justrecently exposed that there’s one challenger who can pull her out of retirement.
“There’s just one individual … there’s just one individual I would come back for,” Rousey stated on an episode of The Kurt Angle Show (h/t USA Today‘s Farah Hannoun) “I suggest, I’ve stated it a million times. It’s not like it’s something brand-new. [I’d come back] for Gina, male—Gina Carano.”
One of the leaders of ladies’s MMA, Carano puttogether a 7-1 record while completing for EliteXC and Strikeforce from 2006 to2009 She hasn’t completed giventhat losing to Cris Cyborg in a battle that identified Strikeforce’s first-ever females’s champ at 145 pounds.
Rousey, who is the present WWE SmackDown females’s champ, is one of the most popular MMA fighters of all time. She went 12-2 while contending for Strikeforce and the UFC. She was Strikeforce’s last ladies’s bantamweight champ upuntil its acquisition by the UFC, making her the business’s inaugural titleholder.
The 35-year-old holds the UFC record for most title defenses by a lady with 6, and she endedupbeing the veryfirst lady inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame in 2018.
Rousey described that Carano is the individual who affected her battling profession, so it would be an honor to share the octagon with her.
“She’s the factor why I got into combating. She’s the factor why I understood it was a possibility. I will constantly be permanently grateful,” Rousey stated. “If she ever was like, ‘Ronda, I desire to battle you tomorrow at 205 pounds’—like, whatever the hell she’d desire.”
Carano exposed in 2019 that she was when used $1 million to battle Rousey. However, the battle neverever came to fulfillment duetothefactthat of a miscommunication with UFC Phomeowner Dana White.
Rousey restated that she’d go to any length to battle Carano and that her deal will stand for as long as it takes. However, she is likewise conscious of the probability that the match will neverever takeplace.
“If she desired to come into my yard and do the Rocky thing, you understand, ‘Ding-ding,’ and we simply do it in the yard, I wear’t care. I will battle Gina anywhere she desires,” she stated. “And if she doesn’t desire to, permanently, I will leave that deal there. It’s a regard thing, not like a, ‘F–k you, I’m coming to get you.’ It’s simply like, ‘Hey, if you ever desire to pull that card out, it’s there.’ I love her. Thank you, Gina, for whatever you’ve done.”
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