The legendary Ronda Rousey returns to the cage in a highly historic showdown after years away from the game. She faces Gina Carano in a headliner event for Jake Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) holding this Saturday. Thanks to her legendary status and contribution to the game, conversations around her fight are driving widespread excitement.
Rousey, 39, played a crucial role in helping foster women’s contracts in the UFC after running roughshod through Strikeforce in 2011/12. The UFC retained Strikeforce’s women’s roster after its 2011 acquisition of the California-based promotion, shoving Rousey to the forefront as the UFC’s inaugural women’s champion.
She held a historic six-fight stretch of title defenses before suffering her first loss to Holm. It’s clear her return could reopen old memories and get the fans calling for more of her. But Rousey already has a personal reason to end her fighting career for good after Saturday.
Ronda Rousey opens up on personal life ahead of Saturday’s MVP bout
Despite the excitement that Rousey’s return has brought for her, a personal promise could end her fighting career this weekend. She conferred with her husband, former UFC heavyweight Travis Browne, and her sister about her intentions after this weekend’s bout. Speaking on the Pound-4-Pound show about her fight with Carano, Rousey chooses to put family over her already aging career.
“I promised my husband, my sister. Everybody in my family is like ‘please let this be the last one’
I wanna have some more babies”
Rousey hopes to have two more kids, if possible, and understands she can’t permit any more detours in the cage. Her departure from the UFC and the sport may have been unglamorous, after she endured internal conflict and neurological issues. However, over a decade after her last fight, Rousey is still bent on redefining the MMA’s images
She hopes her appearance in Saturday’s fight, during which MVP partners with Netflix, could significantly boost the promotion’s appeal/ The stakes, obviously, involve upending the UFC’s dominance in the sport with a worthy rival. On a personal note, the UFC Hall of Famer would hope to rewrite the ending to her UFC career in grand style by Sunday morning.
