Gina Carano details shocking weight loss before Ronda Rousey fight

The most startling stat about the fight between Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano might have surfaced the day before bout takes place, Saturday, May 16 at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California.

It was a day earlier, on Friday, after the official weigh-in when Carano took to Instagram.

“Ok. Vulnerable post but here we are," she wrote. “I just weighed in at 141.4 lbs. Since Sept 2024 to today, May 15, 2026, I have lost 100lbs. It hurts to say that and share but I am going to share it because I worked so damn hard every week for over a year and a half to shed this weight. It did not happen overnight."

If the weight loss happened steadily, that’s five pounds a month for approximately 20 months.

At her old weight of 240 pounds, the 5-foot-8 Carano would have weighed only 17 pounds less than the 6-foot-4 Francis Ngannou did at the weigh-in Friday for his heavyweight bout against Philipe Lins.

Both Rousey and Carano were required to weigh no more than 145 pounds for their fight, the main event on the 11-fight card. Carano did that with ease and do did Rousey, who came in at 142 pounds.

“If it wasn’t for having this incredibly challenging goal in fighting @rondarousey I most definitely wouldn’t have reached this," Carano wrote. “I was pre-diabetic, had trouble simply walking in September and have been on the path to recovery to turn myself back into an athlete since then."

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Gina Carano credits Ronda Rousey for shocking weight loss