UFC Corridor of Famer Ronda Rousey doubled down on her fiery remarks about her former promotion forward of her MMA comeback.
Ronda Rousey is weeks away from her first Blended Martial Arts combat in ten years, as she prepares to face ladies’s MMA pioneer Gina Carano in a Most Useful Promotions headliner. This may mark Rousey’s first combat since back-to-back losses to Holly Holm and Amanda Nunes within the UFC Octagon.
Rousey’s legacy in Blended Martial Arts is already set in stone forward of the extremely anticipated occasion. However Rousey’s relationship together with her former promotion has grow to be foggy in latest weeks, as demonstrated by her latest remarks.
Rousey has repeatedly taunted the UFC in latest weeks, particularly forward of the promotion’s card on the White Home. The previous UFC ladies’s bantamweight champion has repeatedly criticized UFC fighter pay and brought private photographs at matchmaker Hunter Campbell.
Whereas Rousey made headlines in entrance of the cameras on the first Carano combat press convention, she hasn’t slowed down in her criticism of the UFC.
Ronda Rousey fears Blended Martial Arts is at a ‘crossroads’ due to the UFC
In a latest video uploaded to her YouTube channel, Rousey reignited her ongoing feud in opposition to the UFC brass.
“I really feel like we’re at a crossroads for the game, and that is the start of a giant change that’s lengthy overdue,” Rousey mentioned.
“I meant it after I mentioned that the UFC is affected by a scarcity of competitors. They’ve grow to be too comfy with being the dominant pressure within the trade, and simply making fighters affords the place they go, ‘Take it or depart it, what else are you going to do?’ It was once that UFC was the easiest way to make cash in fight sports activities. Now it’s turning into the worst place to make cash in fight sports activities. It was once anti-establishment, and now it’s grow to be the institution…
“Don’t get me unsuitable, I’ve all the time been an organization lady, and was very grateful whereas I used to be there, however I really feel like since they’ve taken the reins away from Dana they’ve actually misplaced their approach,” Rousey continued. “They suppose that they’re too massive to fail, and that they’ll simply disappoint the followers again and again, and so they don’t care what number of informal followers they lose.” (h/t MMA Combating)
As of this writing, UFC CEO Dana White has but to answer Rousey’s public remarks concerning the promotion. Rousey entered the UFC Corridor of Fame in 2018.
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