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Report: Ronda Rousey Nearing Agreement To Make UFC Return

It appears as though the wait to once again see ‘Rowdy’ Ronda Rousey return to the UFC’s Octagon may finally be over. According to a report from FOX Sports, Rousey has been offered a bantamweight title bout against current champion Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. No agreement has

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It appears as though the wait to once again see ‘Rowdy’ Ronda Rousey return to the UFC’s Octagon may finally be over.

According to a report from FOX Sports, Rousey has been offered a bantamweight title bout against current champion Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. No agreement has yet been made as of this writing.

Nunes has been teasing a big fight announcement on social media, and the timing with reports that Rousey is nearing a deal to return to fight the Brazilian champ couldn’t fit any better:

Fight news coming soon ???? Novidade de luta chegando.

A photo posted by amandanunes (@amanda_leoa) on Sep 21, 2016 at 6:55am PDT

The bout is certainly an appealing one to UFC President Dana White, as he is confident that the former bantamweight queen will fight Nunes before year’s end:

“Yes, there’s a big chance that Ronda Rousey will fight Amanda Nunes and I’m very confident that Ronda will probably fight before the end of the year,” White said.

Rousey (12-1) is coming off of the first loss in her professional mixed martial arts (MMA) career, when she suffered a second round knockout loss to Holly Holm in their championship meeting back in November of last year.

Nunes (13-4) is coming off of a first round knockout win over the now-former champ Miesha Tate in the main event of UFC 200 earlier this year.

The Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt is no slouch on the ground, and has some of the nastiest power in the women’s 135-pound division.

If reports of a return title fight for Rousey against Nunes are true, it is certainly a tall task for the former Olympic judoka. Stay with LowKick for the latest on Rousey’s potential return bout against ‘The Lioness’.

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UFC Legend: Everyone’s Seen Through Ronda Rousey

Nearly a year after she was shockingly knocked out by Holly Holm at UFC 193, the MMA world is still awaiting any official news – let alone a fight announcement – that Ronda Rousey is actually returning to the Octagon. One former UFC champ doesn’t believe Rousey will ever return and even if she does, she

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One former UFC champ doesn’t believe Rousey will ever return and even if she does, she can no longer draw the throngs of fans she did before losing.

Never one to let his true feelings be hidden, legendary UFC tournament champ Don Frye weighed in on the scenario to Submission Radio:

“No, she’s not coming back. She’ll never fight again.She used to be able to draw fans, now she can’t. Everybody’s seen through her.”

don frye

UFC President Dana White recently told Globo Rousey would be back to face current champion Amanda Nunes next, possibly even before the end of the year. Frye doesn’t think she deserves that fight, and should have to beat Holm, who’s now lost two straight herself, to get back into a title fight:

“If she wants to come back, she should do her rematch against Holly Holm. And then if you beat Holly, then you can have a title match. But if you get your ass kicked like that, you don’t deserve a title match.”

While that’s a strong opinion sure to turn some heads, the bottom line, especially in this era of the UFC where the biggest money fights rule above all else, is that Rousey will almost certainly be booked into an immediate title fight against the surging Nunes when she comes back.

And that’s understandable, because it’s obviously what is best for business. It’s on Rousey to prove to her fans that she still has the fire to fight and defeat the best, because Nunes has been running through top-ranked women’s bantamweight with a vengeance.

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Ronda Rousey Solving Puzzles, Not Spazzing Out

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The UFC women’s bantamweight division has seen a massive change over the past year. Up until UFC 193 there had only been one champion. Ronda Rousey dominated the weight class with her ruthless Judo and record-breaking submissions. ‘Rowdy’ added a few knockouts to her credit towards the end of her unbeaten streak, but that new-found love for striking would eventually be her undoing. When paired with the massive underdog Holly Holm on November 15, Rousey was seeing unprecedented levels of promotion.

Finally fight night rolled around, but it would not go as most had predicted. Holm was rampant, taking advantage of Rousey’s confidence in her stand up game. ‘The Preacher’s Daughter’ also proved to have gold standard takedown defense. This led to a monstrous second round knockout for Holm in Australia, the ramifications of which are still felt to this day. Three champions on since Ronda Rousey’s reign, an we’re yet to receive a solid date for her comeback.

Bantam-Wait

Rousey’s big return has been hindered by minor surgeries and Hollywood movie roles. She also fell in to quite a dark period after Holm defeated her, understandably so in many respects. As 2016 begins to usher in the final quarter, an octagon comeback before year’s end is looking unlikely at best. For fans of the former champion there are some positive signs though. Rewind back to February/March time, and ‘Rowdy’ refused to even talk about fighting.

Speaking during the soon-to-be released documentary ‘The Hurt Business,’ Ronda Rousey made an interesting statement about MMA. Via The Washington Post, ‘Rowdy’ says the world would be a better place if people could take their anger out in the gym more often.

Can’t We All Just Get Along Fight?

“Ignorance is the only real barrier the sport has to overcome. I think a lot of people who are ignorant toward it say it promotes violence when it really is the most responsible outlet for it. It’s human instinct to fight. If you try to suppress it entirely, and put everyone in a bubble-wrapped society, that’s when people end up going nuts and shooting movie theaters. If any of those people that had all of that aggression built up in them had some sort of outlet, I think that we’d have a lot more societal health because of it.”

“It’s not violence for the sake of violence. I mean the word ‘art’ is in it for a reason. When I get in there, yeah, I’m fighting, but really what I’m trying to do is outsmart the other person. It’s a puzzle to be solved. I’m not just going in there and spazzing out and swinging my hands and lifting weights so that I can lift my hands even harder. It’s more mental and tactical than anything else and I think it’s the purest, most beautiful sport in the world.”

Hurt Business

The documentary film also features Jon Jones, Holly Holm, Georges St-Pierre and many other big names from the UFC and mixed martial arts. It should be a great view when released fully. Here’s another clip showing ‘Bones’ and ‘GSP’ talking about steroid use in MMA.

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Quote: No One Cares About ‘Broken’ Ronda Rousey & Her Fat Arms

With the entire MMA world anxiously awaiting her return, Ronda Rousey has been in a sort of self-imposed exile ever since her shocking knockout loss to Holly Holm in the main event of last November’s UFC 193. It’s unknown when – or even if – “Rowdy” will return to challenge for the throne she once

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It’s unknown when – or even if – “Rowdy” will return to challenge for the throne she once ruled so effortlessly, and in her stead, the UFC women’s bantamweight division has become one ripe with parity, as three women have held the belt since she did.

Holm lost to Rousey’s longtime rival Miesha Tate in the co-main of March’s UFC 196, and Tate lost the belt in a one-sided submission loss to Amanda Nunes in the main event of July 9’s UFC 200. The belt has been tossed around like a game of hot potato, and many fans are begging for “Rowdy” to return and hopefully bring some order to the chaos.

One top contender isn’t hoping for Rousey’s return, however, and for good reason. With a potential title shot against Nunes hanging in the balance, No. 5-ranked Julianna Pena is hoping to leapfrog any potential Rousey return to get her own await title bout after beating No. 6 Cat Zingano in a somewhat middling win on the UFC 200 preliminary card.

According to “The Venezuelan Vixen,” no one cares about Rousey’s return anymore because she’s a ‘broken’ fighter (via TMZ):

“No one cares about [her] and her fat arms anymore. She’s like the emperor in no clothes. She’s broken a little bit.”

It’s tough to argue with Pena’s words here, at least in a pure fighting sense, because while she used some derogatory terms that have nothing to do with Rousey’s return, it’s also fair to wonder if the former champ will return to the Octagon with the fire she once had as arguably the most dominant champ in the sport during her legendary run from 2013-2015.

Rousey finished six straight fights as UFC champion, with only her UFC 168 submission over Tate lasting outside of the first round. Pena has two UFC finishes on her record, but her two most recent wins, which rank as her two mot high-profile wins, were decision victories where she largely laid on her opponent to earn the nod.

With trash talk seemingly the only way a fighter can make a big name for themselves in today’s UFC, it’s understandable why this “Vixen” wants to bash the beaten Rousey. But contrary to her beliefs, many do care about seeing Rousey return.

And Pena has quite a long way to go to be considered in the same light even if Rousey never sets foot inside a MMA cage again.

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Quote: I Keep Hearing Ronda Rousey Is Pregnant

Former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey has well and truly been through the mill in the last ten months. Her first professional loss against Holly Holm at UFC 193 was a tough pill to swallow for ‘Rowdy.’ Fans hoping for a near-future return for the former undisputed queen may be waiting a while, as Hollywood movie

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The MMA world, for a time, could not get enough of Ronda Rousey. Her ever-swelling confidence and sub-minute finishes had the mainstream salivating for more, as awards and accolades flooded in with each dominant win. Front covers of Ring Magazine and ESPN showed how big ‘Rowdy’ had become, but in the midst of this media frenzy was the underlying thought of an almost imminent loss. When it finally came to be, that single ‘head kick heard around the world’ held more power than any of us had first realised.

Ronda Rousey is attended to after her UFC 193 knockout loss to Holly Holm... — Ronda Rousey is attended to after her UFC 193 knockout loss to Holly Holm…

Where had the boisterous ruler of the female bantamweights gone? In her absence was a toned down, reportedly depressed Rousey. She even revealed that times got so hard immediately after UFC 193 she’d considered suicide. The thought of ‘having Travis Browne’s babies’ was the only thing that kept her going.

From the untouchable ruler of the 135-pound division, nemesis of Cris Cyborg, to the much more human version of Ronda Rousey seen during and after UFC 193, it’s been quite the transformation. Once calling non stop for a fight with ‘Rowdy,’ her Brazilian rival Cristiane Justino made some very interesting comments about the former champ via Twitter:

A well disguised troll? Quite possibly, or maybe Cyborg does simply wish her rival the best. On top of the brutal loss and the time in the Hollywood limelight, could being pregnant prove the last step towards Ronda Rousey officially retiring?

There’ll no doubt be a ton of fights waiting for her if Rousey does decide to come back, and if this is a troll by Cris Cyborg, then the rivalry is clearly far from over.

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Australian Reporter: ‘Sadistic’ UFC Is A Bloodbath That Glorifies Violence

Former UFC bantamweight champion “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey is without question one of the sport’s biggest stars despite falling on rough times recently. The “Rowdy” one has been out of action since surrendering her title in brutal fashion to Holly Holm at November 2015’s UFC 193 from Melbourne, Australia. Aside from her loss, Rousey led a

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Former UFC bantamweight champion “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey is without question one of the sport’s biggest stars despite falling on rough times recently.

The “Rowdy” one has been out of action since surrendering her title in brutal fashion to Holly Holm at November 2015’s UFC 193 from Melbourne, Australia.

Aside from her loss, Rousey led a very successful event at UFC 193 which took place at the massive 50,000 plus seat Etihad Stadium. The show was monumental to say the least, but that doesn’t mean that every Australian was too fond of the action.

In fact, one certain Australian reporter had some very harsh comments regarding the card, bashing not only Rousey, but the ‘bloodbath’ that is the UFC as well.

Check out what Susie O’Brien of Melbourne’s Herald Sun had to say below:

“Ronda, we don’t need to encourage people to pay good money to watch you get battered into oblivion, or to watch you do the same to your opponent.

My colleague, Ron Reed, who went to the Holm v Rousey fight last year, said the crowd was roaring things like “cut off his f—— head” and “I want to see blood”.

I don’t think UFC is entertainment and it shouldn’t be served up as such in any Australian city. It’s nothing more than a dangerous form of sadistic voyeurism that feeds off the injuries sustained by others.

This is not sport. It’s a bloodbath that glorifies violence.”

Well, O’Brien sure wasn’t holding back with those statements.

As for Rousey, the ex-champion has yet to return since being knocked out by Holm, but there have been rumors of her making her highly-anticipated comeback at November 12’s UFC 205 from Madison Square Garden in New York.

What do you make of these comments regarding Rousey and the sport as a whole?

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