Even Ronda Rousey is throwing shade at the UFC’s lackluster White House card.
During Saturday’s UFC 326 event in Las Vegas, the promotion unveiled its full lineup for the event at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on Sunday, June 14—formally dubbed UFC Freedom 250.
The announcement was immediately met with backlash from fans, who were expecting the UFC to deliver something spectacular, such as the return of Jon Jones or Conor McGregor. Instead, we got a lightweight title unification clash between Ilia Topuria and Justin Gaethje and an interim heavyweight showdown between perennial contender Ciryl Gane and former two-division titleholder Alex Pereira.
With Rousey’s highly anticipated return to MMA against Gina Carano scheduled to go down less than a month before UFC Freedom 250, the former bantamweight queen saw fit to take a jab at her former employer on social media.
“How’s THAT for a bamf laden double headliner?” Rousey wrote on X. “That’s what happens when you put fighters and fans ahead of shareholders @MostVpromotions. P.S. @ufc’s White House card sucks.”
Ronda Rousey Ready to Go to War with Gina Carano and the UFC
Rousey will meet Carano inside the Intuit Dome in Inglewood—a matchup she initially pitched to the UFC. After negotiations fell through, ‘Rowdy’ took her business to Jake Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions and Netflix.
“It’s a dream fight and a superfight and everything, but I feel like the story, and everything behind it, is not just this fight,” Rousey told MVP chief Nakisa Bidarian in a behind-the-scenes “MVP UNCUT” video released Monday. “A lot of it is MVP vs. UFC. That’s where I’m going to go real hard in the f*cking trenches.
“We’re helping (the UFC) because they’re suffering from a lack of competition. They can’t just make a class-action lawsuit every couple years, the cost of doing business. I’m really trying to help Dana out. If anyone has been groomed to be his apprentice, it’s been me. I think I’d be the most favorite adversary he’s ever had.”
It will be Rousey’s first time competing since suffering a 48-second knockout loss against Amanda Nunes nearly a decade ago.
