Ronda Rousey launched a tirade against UFC women's bantamweight champion Kayla Harrison ahead of her headline bout with Gina Carano on May 16. Rousey, who has not fought in nearly a decade, returns under Jake Paul's Most Valuable Promotions. According to multiple reports, Harrison had previously branded Rousey as 'irrelevant'.
Rousey fired back, calling Harrison 'irrelevant' and accusing her of lacking charisma. She also mocked Harrison's neck injury, which sidelined her from a planned title defense against Amanda Nunes at UFC 324. That fight was scheduled as a co-main event below an interim lightweight title bout between Paddy Pimblett and Justin Gaethje.
Gina is so relevant that she’s the whole reason the 145-pound division even exists. I am so relevant that the only reason she has a job at the UFC is because of me. Kayla is so irrelevant that she couldn’t even keep the 145-pound division around. Honestly, she’s just sour because no matter what she does or what she accomplishes, she can’t change the fact that she has the charisma of a wet towel and will always be in me and Gina’s shadow. So the next time she wants to talk s***, she should look down at her feet and consider who paved the road that she’s walking on. Oh wait, she can’t look down at her feet because she’s too busy holding onto the belt in a neck brace.
Rousey's fight with Carano will be streamed on Netflix, though it is unclear if the platform will carry it globally or only in certain regions.
Her and Hunter [Campbell] acting like her next upcoming fight is the biggest women’s fight of all time. Then why is it being booked as a co-main for a men’s interim title fight? The b**** isn’t even bigger than Paddy 'The Baddy' [Pimblett]. No offense to Paddy. He’s got more potential than anybody in the UFC, and he should call me when his contract runs out.
If she thinks that her fight is the biggest women’s fight of all-time, why is she getting paid less now than I was 10 years ago? So riddle me this, b****, 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 women’s fight of all time; this is the biggest MMA fight of all time, it’s 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. This dream is going to bring more opportunities and greater revenue share to fighters than they’ve ever had before because this fight is bigger than just me and Gina. It’s bigger than anybody on this stage. It represents an unstoppable force of change in this industry, spearheaded by the fighters themselves.