Ronda Rousey backtracks after dragging Paddy Pimblett into feud

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Paddy Pimblett found himself caught in the middle of a brewing MMA feud on Wednesday.

During a press conference in New York to promote her May 16 comeback fight against Gina Carano, Ronda Rousey spent much of her time on stage turning her attention to Kayla Harrison.

Rousey used most of her appearance to tear into Kayla Harrison, repeatedly calling her ‘irrelevant’ and dismissing any interest in facing her as pointless. This wasn’t the first time she had spoken publicly about Carano either. She had already voiced her frustration that most people seemed more interested in hearing about Harrison than anything else she said.

Ronda Rousey walks back stray shot at Paddy Pimblett

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During her extended, profanity-laced tirade against Kayla Harrison, Ronda Rousey brought up UFC 324.

The UFC Hall of Famer questioned why Harrison’s doomed matchup with Amanda Nunes was listed as the co-main event when it was being promoted as the biggest fight in women’s MMA history.

Paddy Pimblett, who headlined that event with his interim lightweight title bout against Justin Gaethje, ended up taking a stray as Rousey went off on the current UFC bantamweight champion.

“Her and Hunter [Campbell] were trying to act like her next fight is the biggest women’s fight of all time.”

“Then why is it being booked as the co-main for a men’s interim title fight?

“The b—- isn’t even bigger than Paddy ‘The Baddy’.

Pimblett has plenty going for him at just 29 years old. He only lost once between 2018 and his departure from the promotion six years later.