BJJ News — ronda-rousey

Kayla Harrison Is Back Training After Neck Surgery — The UFC Women's Bantamweight Champ Who Called Rousey a Liar Is Now Targeting a Return

Kayla Harrison Is Back Training After Neck Surgery — The UFC Women's Bantamweight Champ Who Called Rousey a Liar Is Now Targeting a Return

Kayla Harrison was two weeks out from defending her UFC women's bantamweight title when the UFC flew her to New York and doctors gave her two options: have neck surgery immediately, or risk paralysis. That was late January.
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When Rousey Called Chimaev a 'F***ing Cleft-Lip Lincoln'

When Rousey Called Chimaev a 'F***ing Cleft-Lip Lincoln'

When Ronda Rousey's Netflix comeback against Gina Carano was supposed to be the story of fight week, nobody had Khamzat Chimaev on the bingo card for creating actual chaos. But on May 15 — just six days before her big return — Rousey said something at the MVP MMA 1 press conference that would oversh
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Netflix's Uma Thurman Narrative Gambit — How a 42-Minute Fight Camp Doc Sold Rousey vs. Carano

Netflix's Uma Thurman Narrative Gambit — How a 42-Minute Fight Camp Doc Sold Rousey vs. Carano

The mechanics of combat sports marketing shifted in a way that most people watching didn't immediately clock. Netflix dropped "Countdown: Rousey vs.
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Ronda Rousey Tried to Occupy Two Contradictory Positions at Once, Three Weeks Before Fighting Gina Carano

Ronda Rousey Tried to Occupy Two Contradictory Positions at Once, Three Weeks Before Fighting Gina Carano

About two weeks before the Netflix main event that would shake up combat sports, Ronda Rousey did what she'd been doing non-stop for the previous three weeks: she tried to hold two mutually exclusive emotional positions in a single sentence and called it grace. When TMZ caught her on camera on April
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Netflix Debuted MMA and Built a Theme Park Instead of a Sport Card

Netflix Debuted MMA and Built a Theme Park Instead of a Sport Card

Back in May 2026, when Jake Paul's Most Valuable Promotions rolled out Netflix's first live MMA broadcast from Intuit Dome in LA on May 16th, nobody was quite prepared for what had actually been assembled. Nineteen days later, looking at what went down that Saturday night, the whole thing reads like
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Gina Carano Lost 100 Pounds to Fight Ronda Rousey on Netflix

Gina Carano Lost 100 Pounds to Fight Ronda Rousey on Netflix

When this went down back in mid-May 2026, it felt like the kind of celebrity MMA nostalgia card that shouldn't have worked—two former champions separated from active competition by roughly a decade, fighting on Netflix under Jake Paul's MVP banner. But what made the whole thing slightly less disposa
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Netflix's First MMA Card Features Two Fighters Who Haven't Won A Fight This Decade

Netflix's First MMA Card Features Two Fighters Who Haven't Won A Fight This Decade

The streaming platform that changed how the world watches television is about to introduce 325 million subscribers to combat sports. And the first thing they'll see is a woman who last won a fight when "Hotline Bling" was still on the charts.
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Vegas Has Rousey at -650. Netflix Is Calling It Her Comeback. One of These Framings Is Wrong.

Vegas Has Rousey at -650. Netflix Is Calling It Her Comeback. One of These Framings Is Wrong.

A -650 betting line is not a comeback fight. When sportsbooks open you at -650, they're saying you have roughly an 87% chance of winning.
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