Ronda Rousey’s pool of contenders may have just gotten quite a bit bigger.
The UFC women’s bantamweight champion is booked to face No. 1 contender Cat Zingano Jan. 3 at UFC 182 in Las Vegas, but commentator Joe Rogan has some interesting ideas about future challenges.
During his ‘Fight Companion’ podcast coinciding with UFC 179, Rogan explained why he would be in favor of seeing Rousey fight Bryan Caraway, a UFC bantamweight and significant other of her chief rival, Miesha Tate.
“If you know that a chick used to be a dude, but is now a chick and you fight her, I’m on board,” said Rogan. “I think it should be legal to ride bulls, I think it should be legal to jump BMX, you should be able to do whatever the f**k you wanna do. I think a 135 pound chick should be able to fight a 135 pound dude.
“I think if Ronda Rousey and Bryan Caraway talked enough s**t and they decided to go at it, I don’t have any problem with that if they both agree to it.”
Things have been tense between Rousey and Caraway dating back to 2012.
The night before Rousey would steal away the women’s strikeforce title from Tate, Caraway infamously Tweeted, ‘if [Rousey] wants to challenge a man I’ll knock her teeth dwn (sic) her throat the (sic) break her arm!’
Rousey largely laughed off the threats, but has maintained that she would be game for the matchup ever since.
Unfortunately for Rousey, pitting Caraway against a close friend and training partner might be the best she can hope for.
Making a successful bantamweight debut in a come-from-behind submission win over Cody Gibson at UFC 178, long-time Rousey stablemate Manny Gamburyan made it clear he wanted a piece of Caraway.
“I told Joe Silva win or lose, I want Caraway next,” Gamburyan said in the Octagon. “Bryan Caraway, where you at? Don’t be scared, homie.”
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A lubricated Randy Couture asks a TMZ photog if he’d like to ‘take an ambulance ride.’
Long watches.
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TWEETS
Cub. Oh, honey.
Ready……. Set…….. HATE!!!! Just landed in Miami for some meetings!!!! What’s up Miami http://t.co/Kz4cKBUdvH
— Dana White (@danawhite) October 27, 2014
Flew into Miami on the jet today!! Flying with the GoodFellas!! #LaFamilia http://t.co/MOaKS4rLDB pic.twitter.com/iFkqwSvgw2
— Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) October 27, 2014
Back in Las Vegas after the trip of a lifetime!! Grateful everyday I chased this dream!! MOTIVATED beyond belief!! pic.twitter.com/pxGXyJWQf1
— Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) October 27, 2014
Good turnout.
600+ fighters show up for TUF Brazil tryouts. Yikes. pic.twitter.com/yNKT0f7Ee4
— Sean Shelby (@seanshelby) October 27, 2014
Probably unrelated.
Feather Dustin Poirier 7 > 6 Dennis Bermudez 8 > 7 Chan Sung Jung 6 > 8 Dennis Siver 10 > 9 Nik Lentz 9 > 10
— UFCFIGHTERSiNFO (@UFCFIGHTERSiNFO) October 27, 2014
What a fucking joke……
— Nik Lentz (@NikLentz) October 28, 2014
Pic came out perfect.
Got some MMA sparring in this morning. I definitely feel like I’ve been out for a wile, bu… http://t.co/pKZpMAX6eU pic.twitter.com/vf5HMVfRRw
— Carlos Condit (@CarlosCondit) October 27, 2014
Bells and whistles.
Also, confirmed with many camps after fights that they could not hear 10 second warnings, corners, or bells due to the crowd noise
— Brian Stann (@BrianStann) October 27, 2014
Perhaps @ufc needs a horn similar to basketball, I could hear it because it was in my headset & no one is punching me lol
— Brian Stann (@BrianStann) October 27, 2014
Get well soon.
Shake it off and get ready! 2015 #Tyrone #King #Spong #Suriname #Warrior #champion #humble… http://t.co/Koj5FRYJ1d
— TyroneSpong (@Tyrone_spong) October 27, 2014
Hope he bought them a round.
“@ShelbyOBrien__: Nice meeting you cowboy thanks for hangin my 21st. #twinpeaks #lasvegas #ufc #cowboy pic.twitter.com/QMdeSYkyBu” Happy bday
— Cowboy Cerrone (@Cowboycerrone) October 28, 2014
The struggle.
I’m on whore street in Tijuana
— phil baroni (@philbaroni) October 28, 2014
The State is holding hotdog hostage and threatening to cut his balls off. This is not an America i want! Thanks a lot @Schwarzenegger
— Jason Mayhem Miller (@mayhemmiller) October 27, 2014
#FREEGATOR http://t.co/6AoiVHZvU3 @mexwarrior
— Jason Mayhem Miller (@mayhemmiller) October 27, 2014
The worst thing ever…outside Prowler pushes http://t.co/XHRtScYxtR
— Ryan Bader (@ryanbader) October 27, 2014
Sucks I’m not fighting in a couple weeks… But there are bright sides. #rootbeerfloat http://t.co/Ulg4cwE01T pic.twitter.com/IOTGAwWOc3
— Joe Lauzon (@JoeLauzon) October 27, 2014
These creepy msgs had me loling 😉 http://t.co/N11kNsl4tp pic.twitter.com/J9mBY0Ph01
— ‘Rowdy’ Bec Rawlings (@RowdyBec) October 26, 2014
I hate this sooo much! @ufc #fightnight Nov 22nd http://t.co/Sf6CQgxnqx
— Cub Swanson (@CubSwanson) October 28, 2014
I miss fighting. do you think with whom I fight next? ??? ?? ??????? ? ??? ? ???? ????? ??… http://t.co/03S3hAHwzd pic.twitter.com/0eYxac0NS1
— khabib nurmagomedov (@TeamKhabib) October 27, 2014
Crocodile 🙂 http://t.co/pusxsHvVIA pic.twitter.com/8Tx2BCO2As
— Alistair Overeem (@Alistairovereem) October 27, 2014
One girl two cups again 😉 http://t.co/yp0AaoeIzx pic.twitter.com/kAmLgn51Lh
— ‘Rowdy’ Bec Rawlings (@RowdyBec) October 26, 2014
FIGHT ANNOUNCEMENTS
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FANPOST OF THE DAY
Today’s Fanpost of the Day comes via JuniorTresSantos.
Does anyone else think that Chad Mendes is the last person Conor Mcgregor wants to fight?
Personally, I think Chad would be a nightmare for Conor and i’m just getting the feeling that he really wanted Aldo to win because of that.
If he ever moves up to lightweight, there is NO WAY IN HELL that he’s getting past Khabib for that same exact reason.
Plus, i’m still not on the Conor McGregor hype train. Don’t get me wrong, predicting that he’d stop Dustin in the first round and actually doing it was pretty impressive, but Dustin was never top 5 in my featherweight rankings based on his accomplishments.
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