Gina Carano admits Ronda Rousey ‘would’ve broken my arm’ if comeback fight had continued | MMA
Gina Carano admitted she would have been seriously injured if she hadn’t dropped out of her comeback fight against Ronda Rousey on Saturday night.
The 44-year-old hadn’t fought since 2009, when she faced Rousey in the contest, which was part of a high-profile MMA card on Netflix. The fight was a complete mismatch and lasted just 17 seconds, with Carano kicking out after Rousey, who was making her own comeback after nearly a decade out of competition, put her opponent in an armbar.
“I wanted to throw, fight, win, but I kicked when I should have moved and I was down and it was over,” Carano wrote in an Instagram post Monday. “If I hadn’t tapped, she would have broken my arm because it was starting to crackle. The disappointment of losing like that is very humiliating.”
Carano turned to acting after her fighting career ended in 2009. However, she was fired from The Mandalorian after a series of controversial social media posts, which all but ended her career as a mainstream actress. In Monday’s post, she hinted that she might return to fight again, despite her one-sided loss to Rousey.
“Now I feel like this is just the beginning,” Carano wrote. “I can’t wait to see where I can push my body to go next.”
Rousey has repeatedly said that Saturday’s fight was the last fight of her career. Carano paid tribute to his opponent in Monday’s post.
“I’m so happy that the world got to experience this version of [Rousey] I found a beautiful woman, wife, mother, daughter, sister and legend. I love you ma’am,” she wrote.
