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Ronda Rousey will face Gina Carano on May 16, 2026, in a historic MMA fight streaming on Netflix. Rousey criticized UFC champion Kayla Harrison for calling her 'irrelevant' and expressed frustration over her current pay compared to a decade ago.
Ronda Rousey speaks during the Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) and Netflix 5X5 Professional MMA bound pre-fight press conference outside the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, on March 10, 2026. Rhonda Rousey will face off against Gina Carano on May 16, 2026. Both fighters will be returning after lengthy retirements. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images) | AFP via Getty Images
âRowdyâ came loaded.
Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Bantamweight champion and WWE star Ronda Rousey is set to face womenâs MMA pioneer Gina Carano on May 16, 2026, at Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, California, with the event scheduled to stream on Netflix.
And while most see this as a mega event because itâs the first MMA fight to be featured on Netflix, UFC womenâs Bantamweight champion Kayla Harrison â someone who has history with Rousey â couldnât care less about the huge main event between two women pioneers.
âI donât think we should talk about this because I donât think I have anything nice to say,â Harrison said about Rouseyâs return on Death Row MMA a couple of weeks ago. âShe said this is the best female fight of all time. How old is Gina, though? She hasnât fought in 17 years. Like, shut up.â
Harrison later doubled down, calling Rousey âfâking irrelevant.â
That didnât sit well.
Rousey fired back today during the MVP MMA 1 press conference (watch here) â and didnât hold anything back.
âGina is so relevant sheâs the reason the 145-pound division even exists,â Rousey said. âIâm so relevant that the only reason she has a job in the UFC is because of me. Kayla is so irrelevant that she couldnât even keep that division around.â
Then it got personal.
âHonestly, sheâs just sour because no matter what she does, she has the charisma of a wet towel and will always be in mine and Ginaâs shadows,â Rousey continued.
âSo, the next time she wants to talk shit, she should look down at her feet and consider who paved the path she is walking on. Oh, wait, she canât look down at her feet because sheâs too busy holding onto her belt with a neck brace,â Rousey added. âAnd then she goes on and says I lied about training in Judo in Canada in 2006. Who the fâk are you to call me a liar? I was training there for five months. Bâch, you werenât even there.â
Rousey was referencing a story that Harrison told on that same podcast where she called her irrelevant (details here)
âOver the last decade and a half of being a public figure, Iâve cultivated a reputation for being unabashedly truthful,â Rousey said,. âThis bâch just got here, and sheâs already been caught in a lie. What did she say after she won the belt? She said, âOh, Iâm never gonna say anything bad about Ronda, she took care of me and bought me groceries.â How about you shut the fâk up and eat your groceries.â
Rousey then took aim at how the now-canceled Harrison vs. Amanda Nunes was being promoted as âthe greatest womenâs fight of all time.â
âIf she thinks that her fight is the biggest womenâs fight of all-time, why is she getting paid less now than I was 10 years ago?â Rousey concluded. âSo riddle me this, bitch, are you overvalued or are you overpaid? What really pisses me off more than anything else is how small she thinks. This is not just the biggest womenâs fight of all time; this is the biggest MMA fight of all time, itâs going to get the most views on the biggest platform on the card with the biggest stars, and it was assembled by and will be headlined by two women who dared to dream big.â
Sheesh.
Rousey didnât leave anything on the table.
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Ronda Rousey is set to fight Gina Carano on May 16, 2026.
Ronda Rousey criticized Kayla Harrison for calling her 'irrelevant' and expressed her dissatisfaction with her current pay.
This fight is significant as it is the first MMA event to be featured on Netflix, highlighting two women pioneers in the sport.
The fight will take place at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, California.

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