That’s the headline at General Dispatch this morning, announcing this latest Ronda Rousey debacle-to-be.
Ronda got the snot beat out of her in two successive bouts and quit Mixed Martial Arts in 2016 to switch over to pro wrestling, where they’re not allowed to punch each other in the face and the bouts are all rigged in advance anyway. Her reason for quitting MMA was that she’d had too many concussions which were affecting her eyesight.
Ronda was a better fighter than most of the women who got into MMA in the beginning days of women in mixed martial arts fighting, but that’s not saying much. She was a poor sportsman, she never had a kind word for any of the contenders who got the ring with her before their fights and never had a kind word afterward, either, after she’d won. She obviously enjoyed being a bully and no one was sad to see her get the hell beat out of her, in fact everyone cheered.
So now Rasty Ronda is going to fight in the MMA ring again? She’s 39 and worth about $14 million, and is going to fight Gina Carano, who is 43. Carano’s last professional MMA fight was a first-round TKO loss on August 5, 2009. She is set to make a comeback after a 17-year hiatus to fight Ronda Rousey on May 16, 2026, in a matchup promoted on Netflix. Gina’s net worth is $4 million, a lot less than Ronda, but she comes from a very wealthy family involved in Las Vegas casinos. She’s never going to be poor or broke.
So we have to ask: What the hell are they doing? Neither one needs the money and Gina hasn’t done this since she was a young and vigorous 26 years old. Reminder, she’s now 43. If Ronda has permanent concussion damage, why is she doing this? No doubt they’ll both be paid a lot of money for the fight, but as I said, they don’t need it.
I was one of those hoping to see Ronda get hammered in a fight and cheered when she finally did, which is why I’m so interested in this. She really didn’t turn out to be that great of a fighter, not when matched up against a few really good ones. Is this for charity? Nothing else makes any sense.