{"id":37924,"date":"2026-04-26T20:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Kayla-Harrison-issues-response-to-Ronda-Rousey-Youre-chasing-money-200971"},"modified":"2026-04-26T20:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:35:19","slug":"kayla-harrison-issues-response-to-ronda-rousey-youre-chasing-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/kayla-harrison-issues-response-to-ronda-rousey-youre-chasing-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayla Harrison issues response to Ronda Rousey: &#8216;You\u2019re chasing money&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <center><!--PICTURE R--><\/p>\n<div class=\"pointer\">\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/kayla-harrison-issues-response-to-ronda-rousey-youre-chasing-money.jpg\" width=\"640\" class=\"Picture\"\/><\/center>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Kayla Harrison had some choice words for Ronda Rousey. |<br \/>\nGetty\/UFC<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!--\/PICTURE R--><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Ronda-Rousey-73073\">Ronda<br \/>\nRousey<\/a> attracted a lot of attention for a <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Ronda-Rousey-rips-Kayla-Harrison-reveals-minimum-pay-structure-for-MVP-event-200858\"><br \/>\nrant<\/a> directed at <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Kayla-Harrison-237039\">Kayla<br \/>\nHarrison<\/a> during a recent <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Most-Valuable-Promotions-19337\"><br \/>\nMost Valuable Promotions<\/a> press conference to promote her fight<br \/>\nagainst <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Gina-Carano-16535\">Gina<br \/>\nCarano<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Harrison drew Rousey\u2019s ire by calling the fight between two female<br \/>\nMMA pioneers \u201cirrelevant.\u201d Harrison, the reigning <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\"><br \/>\nUFC<\/a> women\u2019s bantamweight queen, is expected to defend her title<br \/>\nagainst <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Amanda-Nunes-31496\">Amanda<br \/>\nNunes<\/a> when she recovers from neck surgery.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \u201cIf she thinks that her fight is the biggest women\u2019s fight of<br \/>\nall-time, why is she getting paid less now than I was 10 years<br \/>\nago?\u201d Rousey said on April 16. \u201cSo riddle me this, bitch, are you<br \/>\novervalued or are you overpaid? What really pisses me off more than<br \/>\nanything else is how small she thinks. This is not just the biggest<br \/>\nwomen\u2019s fight of all time; this is the biggest MMA fight of all<br \/>\ntime. It\u2019s going to get the most views on the biggest platform on<br \/>\nthe card with the biggest stars, and it was assembled by and will<br \/>\nbe headlined by two women who dared to dream big.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis dream is going to bring more opportunities and greater<br \/>\nrevenue share to fighters than they\u2019ve ever had before because this<br \/>\nfight is bigger than just me and Gina. It\u2019s bigger than anybody on<br \/>\nthis stage. It represents an unstoppable force of change in this<br \/>\nindustry, spearheaded by the fighters themselves. You bet your<br \/>\nf\u2014ing ass this is the biggest MMA fight of all time. Bar none.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018We\u2019re Different\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Harrison appeared on Saturday\u2019s <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-Fight-Night-274-Brady-vs-Buckley-111715\"><br \/>\nUFC Fight Night 274<\/a> pre-fight show on Paramount+, where she was<br \/>\ngiven a chance to respond to Rousey\u2019s remarks. The Olympic gold<br \/>\nmedalist and former PFL two-division champion put it simply: She<br \/>\nand Rousey are after different things at this point in their<br \/>\ncareers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t imagine what it would be like for someone to come in and<br \/>\nbeat everything I&#8217;ve ever done,&#8221; Harrison said. &#8220;That would be<br \/>\nhard. I get it. Imagine hating me and I&#8217;m just over here in my<br \/>\nbackyard feeding chickens. It&#8217;s got to be rough. I think that the<br \/>\npart that bothers me the most about Ronda is, at one point, she was<br \/>\na real athlete. She was training for the Olympics. She&#8217;s an Olympic<br \/>\nbronze medalist. She became UFC champion. She was really trying to<br \/>\nchase greatness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will never take away the fact that Ronda is probably the most<br \/>\nimportant female fighter. If it wasn&#8217;t for her, for sure, I<br \/>\nwouldn&#8217;t be where I&#8217;m at. I wouldn&#8217;t have a job. But this fight is<br \/>\nnot the greatest fight of all-time. It&#8217;s between someone who hasn&#8217;t<br \/>\nfought in 10 years and is coming off two knockout losses and<br \/>\nanother legend, another pioneer who hasn&#8217;t fought in 17 years and<br \/>\nis in her 40s. So don&#8217;t call it the greatest fight of all time. I&#8217;m<br \/>\nchasing greatness. You&#8217;re chasing money. We&#8217;re different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rousey and Carano will square off in a five-round featherweight<br \/>\nbout at the Intuit Dome on May 16. The card will stream on Netflix,<br \/>\nthe first MMA event to air on the platform.<\/p>\n<p><center readability=\"1.8837209302326\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"5.6511627906977\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Kayla-Harrison-237039\">Kayla<br \/>\nHarrison<\/a> responds to <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Ronda-Rousey-73073\">Ronda<br \/>\nRousey<\/a>&#8216;s comments:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m chasing greatness. You&#8217;re chasing money. We&#8217;re different.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paramountplus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@paramountplus<\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ymM00AEL1H\">pic.twitter.com\/ymM00AEL1H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UFC on Paramount+ (@UFConParamount) <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UFConParamount\/status\/2048156361993625923?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"><br \/>\nApril 25, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kayla Harrison had some choice words for Ronda Rousey. | Getty\/UFC Ronda Rousey attracted a lot of attention for a rant directed at Kayla Harrison during a recent Most Valuable Promotions press conference to promote her fight against Gina Carano. Harrison drew Rousey\u2019s ire by calling the fight between two female MMA pioneers \u201cirrelevant.\u201d Harrison, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}