Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano’s topless pics and raciest snaps forward of Netflix mega struggle
Ronda Rousey is finally getting her “dream fight” when she steps back into the ring this weekend to face Gina Carano.
The Baddest Woman on the Planet is back – for a fight she never dreamed might be possible. Standing across from Rousey will be Carano, a trailblazer who left the wild world of MMA before Rousey elevated it in the UFC then left for WWE, and they both know how to command the attention of fans – in and out of martial arts combat. The duo will square off at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, California live on Netflix for Jake Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions.
“I’m definitely loving it more than ever before,” Rousey told The Pat McAfee Show. “There’s definitely been people trying to convince me to continue because there’s a lot of money to be made, but I feel like this is the absolute peak for me. This is my dream fight. This is the way that I always wanted to end it and go out.”
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Rousey, 39, last fought in 2016, in a TKO loss to Amanda Nunes. Before then she had become the first American woman to win an Olynpic medal in judo with a bronze at the 2008 Summer Olympics and become Women’s Bantamweight Champion with Strikeforce and then the UFC’s inaugural Women’s Bantamweight Champion.
Since then she transitioned over to WWE – becoming a two-time Smackdown Women’s Champion, Raw Women’s Champion, Women’s Tag Team Champion and a Royal Rumble winner. And, on top of all of that, she became the first woman to main event WrestleMania – in a triple threat with Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch. However, after leaving the company in 2023 she has appeared in Ring of Honor.
Rousey, though, never shut the door on an MMA return, and she will do so against Carano. The 44-year-old, like Rousey, in an MMA icon. She competed in Elite Xtreme Combat and Strikeforce from 2006 to 2009, earning a 7–1 record and being called the “face of women’s MMA”.
She and Cris Cyborg were the first women to headline a major MMA event during their 2009 Strikeforce bout. But she walked away from the sport after suffering her first professional MMA defeat in that clash. Carano has often teased a return. but the stars didn’t align until Rousey approached her last year.
During her time away from fighting, Carano had her big break on the silver screen, initially as a stuntwoman. She then appeared in the Fast and Furious franchise, Deadpool and most notably in The Mandalorian on Disney Plus.
And as the pair get ready to start throwing haymakers at each other in the early hours of Sunday morning, May 17, Daily Star Sport has a look at the pair’s raciest images including topless snaps and body paint photoshoots…
