Ronda Rousey has detailed how she went to Dana White to host her comeback fight, before landing with Most Precious Promotions.
The legendary former bantamweight champion will tackle Gina Carano on May 16 on the Intuit Dome in California. Rousey last competed in 2016 when Nakisa Bidarian was UFC CFO, and now he’s promoting her comeback alongside Jake Paul of their company’s first ever MMA event that can broadcast on Netflix.
Carano and Rousey have been in talks to fight since 2014, and re-ignited the flame towards the back end of last 12 months. Their fight announcement was viewed over 6 million times in a matter of hours on Instagram alone, and they’re going to come head-to-head in three weeks’ time for a press conference.
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Ronda Rousey tried to get Dana White to stage Gina Carano fight
While Ronda Rousey was pregnant along with her first child, Gina Carano was going through a controversial exit from Disney’s ‘The Mandalorian’, where she had played a key role. By the point Rousey was having her second child, she watched an interview where she felt Carano didn’t look her best.
Neither woman was involved with the opposite on the time, but the previous UFC bantamweight champion realized that each of them ‘needed’ the possibility to get back within the cage. And he or she immediately went to Dana White, who it appears opted against putting on the event.
“I at all times said that Gina is the one person I’d come back to fight for,” Rousey told ESPN’s SportsCenter in her first interview for the reason that fight was confirmed on Tuesday. “I believed, ‘She needs this. She needs this fight.’
“The more that I considered it, I believed, ‘I would like this. I would like this fight.’ I reached out to Dana [White] and asked him if he can be curious about it and it didn’t exactly work out with the UFC. But it surely led us to here today.”
Gina Carano agreed to Ronda Rousey fight back in 2014
This isn’t the primary time that Carano and Rousey have been matched. They’re two of the largest stars within the history of MMA no matter gender, and the previous has claimed that she was offered $1million to fight her friend in the course of the height of Rousey’s fame.
Unfortunately, her timeline for constructing a team and getting back into competition training was said to be too long, and talks broke down between her and White. Now, on the age of 43, she gets the possibility to finally make one among the largest bouts ever in women’s MMA.