Gina Carano Reveals “Aggressive” Dana White Exchange That Stopped Million-Dollar Ronda Rousey UFC Fight

Gina Carano is one of the most famous names in mixed martial arts. Although since Carano lost to Cris Cyborg, she never returned to compete in the cage. During her absence, there was a rumor which stated she would come back to face Ronda Rousey. However, that fight never materialized and recently Carano revealed the reason behind it.

While appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience, podcast host Joe Rogan asked Carano how serious was the conversation about her comeback fight against Rousey back in the day. Carano answered, “It was very serious…So, you know, I am living in L.A. I used to train out of Randy Couture’s in Vegas. I had my whole group there.” 

She further said, “When Dana White and Lorenzo, they invited me out, finally like you know, this had been like five years ago. They said, ‘Hey, we’d like to offer you like you know a million-dollar fight with Ronda.’ And I was like, ‘Damn, what took you guys so long?’ ” 

“What I told Dana and Lorenzo at that time was you know I don’t have a team… I don’t have a gym… I didn’t have any connection into where I would do this fight camp and I knew you know with the weight and everything, it was going to take me three months to get the weight stabilized and then it would take me four months to actually be in like fight camp.”

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While Carano had her struggles to find a team, she asked UFC president Dana White to keep this conversation between them and not reveal it. Although White had unique plans.

Dana White revealed talks of the fight between Gina Carano and Ronda Rousey

Further in the podcast, Gina Carano said that she asked Dana White to keep quiet about this fight and give her the time to prepare. However, White did not listen as he pumped out this news in interviews and on social media.

Carano believed that this action by the UFC President made it harder for her to walk into a gym since everybody now knew she is looking for a team. This is the point where White and Carano did not get along well. She said, “He said something pretty aggressive over text messages. I’m sure you know he does that, and I was just like, okay, I am not going to do that.”

The fighter revealed that even though she respected Ronda Rousey and was eager to get back; she was not okay with going back and immediately feeling disrespected. Carano also had another movie coming up on which she focused rather than being disrespected.

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A fight between Carano and Rouse would serve as a blockbuster fight. Comment below and let us know if you would still like to see Carano and Rousey compete against each other.