{"id":38269,"date":"2026-05-15T19:28:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Liz-Carmouche-Why-I-think-Ronda-Rousey-will-defeat-Gina-Carano-201193"},"modified":"2026-05-15T19:28:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:28:56","slug":"liz-carmouche-why-i-think-ronda-rousey-will-defeat-gina-carano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/liz-carmouche-why-i-think-ronda-rousey-will-defeat-gina-carano\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Carmouche: Why I think Ronda Rousey will defeat Gina Carano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Liz
\nCarmouche<\/a> knows Ronda
\nRousey<\/a> well, having broken ground with her in the first ever
\nwomen\u2019s fight in the
\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a>, a match that the latter would
\nwin by first-round submission. Ten years after her last
\nprofessional mixed martial arts bout where she lost to Amanda
\nNunes<\/a>, Rousey is back in action, taking on another pioneer in
\nGina
\nCarano<\/a>. The women square off for the first ever
\nMost Valuable Promotions<\/a> MMA event, being broadcasted on
\nNetflix, where Carmouche will be watching.<\/p>\n

As Carmouche prepares for her next fight in the
\nProfessional Fighters League<\/a> on June 27 at
\nPFL San Diego<\/a>, she spoke with Sherdog.com and provided her
\npredictions for
\nMVP \u201cRousey vs. Carano,\u201d<\/a> hoping to see the unexpected.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s funny because prior to me starting my career and getting into
\nfighting, I was a huge Gina Carano fan, a huge [Cris Cyborg] fan, I
\nwatched both of them. So I got to see her career and then the end
\nof her career where she retired, and now, she (Carano) is coming
\nback. Then, of course, I got to see Ronda as we\u2019re side-by-side
\nparallel watch if our paths are going to cross, and they eventually
\ndo. So, actually having faced Ronda and just seeing what she\u2019s done
\nwith her career, I think that she\u2019s going to be the winner out of
\nthis.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor one, just the Olympic level of tenacity that they have and
\nbeing able to establish themselves in that career. I think having
\nwatched Gina, unless she\u2019s done these crazy grappling improvements
\nthroughout her career, and just taking that time off and doing it,
\nI think that Ronda has it. Striking wise, I feel they\u2019re pretty
\nwell-matched, but the ground is really where Ronda just stands out
\nand shines brighter than Carano. But again, it\u2019s still a good fight
\nand I hope that I\u2019m completely wrong and they do something
\ncompletely different that\u2019s unexpected, because that\u2019d be really
\ncool.\u201d<\/p>\n

While she\u2019s part of the PFL and has a fight coming up, Carmouche
\nwent on to say that she believes a storybook ending would be in a
\nco-promotion fight, coming full circle against Rousey, or just
\ncompeting on the same card together.<\/p>\n

An elite and
\nundefeated welterweight prospect headlines PFL Brussels against a
\nformer UFC champ: Tune in Saturday, May 23 at 4 p.m. ET on
\nESPN2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like after how we started off in the UFC, and what we were
\nable to achieve there in making that historic moment, that would be
\na fantastic moment. To do something where we come back,
\nfast-forward to the present and do something similar, whether it\u2019s
\nher headlining a fight at 145 and I\u2019m headlining 135, I don\u2019t think
\nanybody could predict that. It\u2019s certainly a great way to be able
\nto combine the two organizations and really showcase women\u2019s MMA
\nand bring attention to it the way it deserves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coming off her 2025 tournament championship, Carmouche has said she
\nhas two very straightforward goals for herself coming into her
\nfirst fight of the year: Add a new belt to her collection, continue
\nto campaign, and hopefully open, a 135-pound division for women in
\nthe PFL. With the new rankings system in place, Carmouche has her
\nsights set on the undisputed women\u2019s flyweight title, and if she
\ncan either open the women\u2019s bantamweight division for the PFL or
\nrepresent the company in a crossover fight while sharing the card
\nwith a former foe, the goals have been laid out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liz Carmouche knows Ronda Rousey well, having broken ground with her in the first ever women\u2019s fight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, a match that the latter would win by first-round submission. Ten years after her last professional mixed martial arts bout where she lost to Amanda Nunes, Rousey is back in action, taking on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38269","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\/38269","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=38269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}