Ronda Rousey tells other women in MMA to ‘learn’ from her and Gina Carano: ‘It’s storytelling’

Ronda Rousey believes her comeback fight should function a blueprint for other female fighters.

The previous UFC women’s bantamweight champion is making her return to motion in 2026 after a decade away from the game.

Rousey will fight Gina Carano on Netflix in a clash of ladies’s MMA pioneers at Inglewood’s Intuit Dome.

‘Rowdy’ led the best way for females within the Octagon, but she thinks many are missing a key aspect of the sport that’s required for them to level up.

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Ronda Rousey tells female fighters to follow her blueprint in MMA

During Wednesday’s press conference ahead of the very first MMA event to air on Netflix, Rousey went scorched Earth on Kayla Harrison after being branded “irrelevant” by the UFC champion.

Speaking with reporter Mike Bohn moments after the presser, ‘Rowdy’ pointed to that rant because the type of thing that’s missing from what number of modern-day female fighters approach the game.

Rousey thinks the present crop of athletes could learn a thing or two by watching her and Carano within the build-up to their fight.

“I don’t know if (women’s MMA) has leveled up yet,” Rousey said.

“I believe they’ve done an incredible job (since I left), but quite a lot of them need to comprehend that just moving into and fighting isn’t the entire job, and really putting quite a lot of thought into media.

“Your job isn’t to win fights, it’s to get people to observe your fights,” she continued. “It’s awesome that folks are watching the brand…however it’s vital for all the ladies to learn from this, from what me and Gina are doing, and what we’ve done prior to now.

“We don’t just show up and fight. It’s storytelling. I put quite a lot of thought into anything that could possibly be asked of me. Like that rant I went on (against Harrison). It wasn’t like I never considered what I might say if someone asked me.”

Those comments would seem to suggest that Rousey expected more progress on the ladies’s side of MMA given the platform she arrange during her historic title reign.

Nevertheless, ‘Rowdy’ herself is just not yet done. Her layoff will come to an end against Carano, who has been out even longer, having not fought since 2009.

It stays to be seen whether more fights will await Rousey if she will be able to follow back-to-back knockout losses to Amanda Nunes and Holly Holm with a triumph on May 16.