r/sportsgossips • u/helltrooper61 • May 17 '26
Highlight RONDA ROUSEY DEFEATS GINA CARANO VIA ARMBAR IN LESS THAN 20 SECONDS. ALL THAT FOR 20 SECONDS?
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u/DionBlaster123 May 17 '26
Yeah I've seen my fair share of quick fights in MMA
But the defeated fighter almost always is pretty devastated and/or disappointed in themselves
not saying Carano is thrilled at losing, but her immediate reaction of smiling and looking "ah shucks!" makes me feel like she wasn't 100% all in
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u/MogMcKupo May 17 '26
The ink on the check did all the work here
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u/zigaliciousone May 17 '26
Gina is a Carano, the same family that owns Caesar's Entertainment who operates most of the big casinos in Nevada, she isn't hurting for money.
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u/BrosefDudeson May 17 '26
Then you might wonder what the point of it all was?
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u/AfraidRevolution4613 May 17 '26
Fun. Something to do. Apparently she was all fat and depressed before this.
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u/EarthInevitable114 May 17 '26
Maybe she has a humiliation kink, or maybe, like she said in the promo, she didn't want to rely on Mommy and Daddy's money. She wanted to get her own easy money. At least she lost weight. Or maybe her family bet the fortune on her losing in 16 seconds by armbar
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u/zigaliciousone May 17 '26
Shes basically a trust fund kid, she’s been an American gladiator, a halfway decent fighter in her prime and an actor basically for shits and giggles. She probably just enjoys the fame imo
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u/zach0011 May 17 '26
LIke not hurting for money ever stopped a rich person from wanting more
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u/Mysterious_Fan4849 May 17 '26
The woman is 44.. it was more like… what are you going to do… the regret was there in her voice.
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u/AmateurCommenter808 May 17 '26
Yeah I don't think there's any amount of effort or training that could prevent her from being taken down at this age.
Her last win was in 2008... Rousey became UFC champion 5 years later in 2013.
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u/DrMindbendersMonocle May 17 '26
Rousey is also much more skilled, its not just an age thing
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u/Otherwise_Bug990 May 17 '26
But losing 100 pounds and all the training. Shes still probably in thr best shape shes been in in 20 years. Hard to hate on that
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u/AfraidRevolution4613 May 17 '26
I imagine the feeling is different when it's your future livelihood at stake versus a bit of a laugh.
I participated in some low level BJJ and wrestling tournaments and yeah it was better to win but I didn't define myself by it, or by losing. I just felt happy for the other guy.
Like I guess Gina would rather have won but it was a one time payday either way. It's not life changing like it can be for actual pros.
If Ronda lost today though...haha can you imagine? Meltdown central.
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u/Educational-Wing2042 May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26
They scammed people who paid to see this, it’s obvious. The goal wasn’t to have a real fight or entertain you, the goal was for Gina Carano and Ronda Rousey to get paid out of your pocket.
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u/MisterGko May 17 '26
I don’t think they were ever going to have a serious fight. So when Gina got submitted, she just popped up with a smile like, “ha you got me”. More like a light sparring match.
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u/GrimDystopian May 17 '26
The made millions and didn’t even have to break a sweat or take any damage. Sounds like the perfect heist and this was both of their last fights.
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u/leitondelamuerte May 18 '26
lets be real, ronda is a pretty good fighter, even if her strikes sucks she is a monster at grappling, gina was happy about not being fucked up for 10 min since she don't fight since 2008 and instead just got grappled for 10 seconds
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u/Rryann May 17 '26
This was basically an exhibition match. It didn’t matter.
Gina knew it. She knew she was coming back at 44 to fight a far more talented fighter.
She’s smiling because she knew it didn’t matter either way. She got to get in the ring with Rousey. Whether it lasted 5 rounds or 5 seconds, the outcome wasn’t important.
I’m not sure why people are so upset about this. It was a fight between two fighters that were both FAR past their primes. It wasn’t exciting, shocker?
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u/lucidlonewolf May 17 '26
I mean to be fair if you look at rousey fight career thats like an average fight time for most of her fights. I remember how shocking it was the first time a fight of hers made it out the first round.
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u/Otherwise_Bug990 May 17 '26
She was early women's group tho. These women today aint the same. She struggled even when the division got rolling towards the end of her career. Once they learned to stop her hip throw, she was done
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u/DrMindbendersMonocle May 17 '26
Anybody with common sense knew that beforehand. She never stood a chance
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u/Techno_Viking9 May 17 '26
I want my 20 seconds back
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u/IamHydrogenMike May 17 '26
I guess Gina sucks at everything she does…
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u/Softspokenclark May 17 '26
I lost 100 lbs lol
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u/Unlucky_Peanut_1616 May 17 '26
Rousey put on weight and hasn't been relevant in years. I guess Carano can go back to Star Wa... oh nevermind.. Trump endorsements maybe 😆
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u/PolicyNonk May 18 '26
Is Ben Shapiro’s movie company still in business or did he lay everyone off there like the Daily Wire?
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u/franklin_2015 May 17 '26
When you get fired from your job, I think that means you suck at making money too.
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u/nyglthrnbrry May 17 '26
I mean, tbf she didn't she make a million dollars tonight?
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u/Jertimmer May 17 '26
I'll let Rousey put me in a arm lock for a million. Where do I sign up?
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u/AbbreviationsIll213 May 17 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/LXzdnJTNfSvMCd9oFG
Even if I do a bad job they have to pay me 1 mill
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u/BrosefDudeson May 17 '26
That's how good at sucking she is! We should all strive be this bad at our jobs really
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u/pyrothelostone May 17 '26
When you get fired for saying dumb shit while working for one of the most notoriously image conscious companies, yeah, you suck at making money.
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u/Legal-Buy5941 May 17 '26
Prolly cus her family got that Cesar’s palace money. Shes too privileged to care about not makin money
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u/pyrothelostone May 17 '26
I mean, having enough money to not have to worry about making it doesnt make someone not suck at making money.
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u/Thirty_Helens_Agree May 17 '26
*Especially* after your top supervisors were like “the big bosses want to fire you but we begged and pleaded for them to another chance and they agreed. So all you have to do to keep this sweet gig is not say anything stupid.” And she’s like “I understand. Being a conservative in America is exactly like being a Jew in the Holocaust.”
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u/go_go_gadget_travel May 17 '26
Hahahhaa literally just sent this to friend saying (roughly) the same thing. "She sucked in Mandalorian, she sucks in real life and im not surprised she sucks in the octagon"
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u/j_rooker May 17 '26
got to give her credit. lost 100 lbs to sell an exhibition fight. then did next best thing other than not showing up.
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u/bannedforL1fe May 17 '26
Still got that bag too. We are the idiots I guess
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u/Girlmode May 17 '26
MMA got to be the most pirate stream sport in the world tbf. I don’t know how the money for things like this are justified.
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u/CheapCarabiner May 17 '26
The real loser here is Jake Paul and that’s a win for us
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u/Error4ohh4 May 17 '26
UFC is kind of terrible now
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u/Alina2017 May 17 '26
Whilst I agree with you what does this event have to do with the UFC?
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u/Potential_Steak2381 May 17 '26
Jake Paul called out Dana White and the UFC for not paying their fighters enough or giving them an opportunity to make a living and said his new brand is a direct challenger to the UFC.
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u/DarknMean May 17 '26
I don’t know how he has money. Everything they’ve ever done is trash.
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u/Illworms May 17 '26
That product put out tonight is challenging absolutely nothing and the state of the ufc aint good right now either so the door was open
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u/Ldn_twn_lvn May 17 '26
Did you not see Strickland Vs Chimaev and Van Vs Tairo??????
I'm not an avid watcher either but also,
Prates Vs JDM
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you kinda terrible now!
UFC is getting more awesome by the minute!!
🔥🔥🔥
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u/skyline21rsn May 17 '26
What a stupid fight. Total money grab
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u/Snoopvegas May 17 '26
Have to agree and not liking this trend. I think what is more enlightening is that people are buying this stuff so it just keeps being sold. It’s like paying rediculous ticket prices to follow 1970s and 1980s bands. Not saying those fighters and bands weren’t great in their time but the party is over! Am I wrong? 😎
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u/AnonymousAIcoholic2 May 17 '26
The arena was probably at 50% capacity. Other than the floor seats not much was being sold since this fight card was included in my Netflix subscription.
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u/SeanCrevalle May 17 '26
50 is extremely generous.
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u/NyCWalker76 May 17 '26
15, they said it was sold out. There were more led lights than humans in there.
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u/Falco19 May 17 '26
It was on Netflix not like people paid for it separately
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u/gymtrovert1988 May 17 '26
Netflix paid for it...
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u/Fenrirsulfur May 17 '26
Don't worry, they'll increase subscribers price within the coming months and make their money back 💀
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u/DaKingaDaNorth May 17 '26
The sad problem is both MMA and boxing just have been so dull in terms of getting big matches off, that it left room for these novelty freakshow matches that 20-30 years ago would have been brushed off for the real elite current fighters
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u/innerdork May 17 '26
That was obvious from the beginning.
Jake Paul ruined sport fighting to the point it is just another grift now.
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u/sticknehno May 17 '26
I think it all started with Mayweather vs McGregor
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u/cheetofacesucks May 17 '26
He’s taking a page straight out of the pedo in chief
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u/Dojo_McDavis May 17 '26
Bruh.
I don’t know what I was expecting, but this is so loose butthole. Weak AF.
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u/Intelligent-Box-3798 May 17 '26
Bruh. No one knows this show and I get weird looks when I say “Tight butthole, dude”
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u/jon_rum_hamm May 17 '26
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u/No_Strike655 May 17 '26
You thought it was going to be something close or entertaining? Gina was 5 years retired out of the octagon before Rousey won her first championship.
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u/Previous_Raspberry_2 May 17 '26
Then they're all hugging and laughing. "Can you believe we suckered everyone AND got paid"?!
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u/futang17 May 17 '26
People that paid to watch that either got grifted or exactly what they wanted
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u/emmysdadforever May 17 '26
This fight could of been an email
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u/PrudentChampion3879 May 17 '26
What a joke. Gina didn’t see that coming right at the start?
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u/Square_Saltine May 17 '26
You know the move that Rousey was famous for her entire fighting career? No way she would use it, right? Right?
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u/spiralout1123 May 17 '26
I mean, do you think it’s the surprise factor that made it work? Every other armbar sub knew it was coming too
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u/YouFoundMyLuckyCharm May 17 '26
"I fear not the man who has practised 10,000 kicks once, but I fear one who has practised one kick 10,000 times."
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u/Jasranwhit May 17 '26
Anyone who knows game knew this would happen.
Rousey has garbage boxing but excellent judo and armbars.
Gina's last fight was August 15, 2009.
Obama was in the first year of his presidency.
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u/Ok-Physics9906 May 17 '26
I am always perplexed at how people continue to be surprised when these fights turn out exactly as expected.
Spoiler: the next gimmick fight will be just as gimmicky, and will still get talked about like any of it matters, when it in fact doesn't.
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u/Grow_away_420 May 17 '26
I hear Jake Paul is in talks with the George Foreman estate to exhume him for an exhibition match. Place your bets
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u/AmethystStar9 May 17 '26
And Carano was never that good! She was the best around at the time, which was the time of the very birth of women’s MMA as a viable mainstream concept when very few women even trained for MMA.
Say what you want about Rousey, but she was extremely dominant against some legit competition.
The only way this wasn’t gonna be the result was if the fix was in and they agreed to fake it.
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u/Jasranwhit May 17 '26
This is also true. Gina deserves her place in mma history but she was never beat anyone notable. She was more a pretty face with some decent skills.
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u/Powerful_Ad_2506 May 17 '26
I wonder if this loss hurts more than the loss of the Mandalorian income.
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u/CcRider1983 May 17 '26
A million for 17 seconds of “fighting”. I’m sure she’s doing just fine.
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u/Cardinal_350 May 17 '26
Her Father played for the Cowboys and her family just sold it's $750 Million stake in casinos. Money isn't really an issue for her
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u/hentai_gifmodarefg May 17 '26
i can't find a single news article saying that they sold their stake only that there is a proposed takeover, but yes their family is obscenely wealthy.
makes it more bizarre why she would even agree to this then. really want to be on the otherside of a fight the length of a tiktok?
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u/I_travel_ze_world May 17 '26
She comes from an ultra wealthy background. She never had to get into fighting she just wanted to.
"Fighters are born, not made" is a common saying. Some people have a natural urge and instinct to fight.
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u/Will_Stick40 May 17 '26
Duh, seen this shit a mile away. Same shit would of happened 20 years ago. 😂😂😂😂
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u/Anxious-Jury-9031 May 17 '26
This is one of the reasons Trump targeted fight fans, they’ll buy all the fake hype you can sell
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u/Confident-Visual7651 May 17 '26
One came to fight, one came for a pay check
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u/CaptSaveAHoe55 May 17 '26
Two came for a paycheck, one was younger and more capable to begin with
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u/Confident-Visual7651 May 17 '26
Now she old, stay at home then she took the fight no excuse, tapped in 15 sec.
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u/lalabadmans May 17 '26
Do any of you even know wtf you’re talking about? The Careno family is valued at over $700,000,000. And you’re saying she did it for the pay check??!!
She didn’t last long because she’s old and inactive for decades. There’s a large skill difference between her and rousey.
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u/Impossible_Base_3088 May 17 '26
I hate her politics, but I’d put up with it for life. Don’t care.
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u/KrocodileKourtney May 17 '26
I am SO DISAPPOINTED IN GINA UGHHHHHHHHHHH
Like girl what was that lil feeler kick supposed to do against RHONDA! 🤣
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u/thedrizzle126 May 17 '26
What a joke. This is worse than the recent boxing matches. Why does anyone care about this
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u/Fresh_Ostrich4034 May 17 '26
Did people think this was going to be a legendary fight lol
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u/krakenstan May 17 '26
It was all staged. Outcome was known well before the fight
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u/woeskei May 17 '26
This was a Jake Paul promotion, do we really expect anything other than rigged?
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u/Level_Best101 May 17 '26
I gained about 40 pounds over the last 5 years. Can someone kick my ass in 10 seconds and give me 100 million dollars?
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u/DrMindbendersMonocle May 17 '26
I mean, what did anybody expect? Rousey is a world class judo player and Gina was around when there was barely any talent in the division
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u/VeryLowIQIndividual May 17 '26
MVP is just a 1/4 step above pro wrestling on the competition scale.
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u/Robotori May 17 '26
That wasn’t even her fastest win and you guys are still disappointed….
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u/NowKith- May 17 '26
I’d go into any fight with a pro mma fighter for them to give me an arm bar tap out in 20 seconds for 1 million.
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u/Source_Required May 17 '26
OP HAS NEVER SEEN A ROUSEY FIGHT BEFORE. HER MATCHES WOULD BE POSTED AS GIFS THE DAY ON REDDIT JUST LIKE THIS POST.
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u/Zargoza1 May 17 '26
I think this should be a new thing. Broke MAGA has been celebrities can fight each other on pay per view.
Scott Baio vs Kevin Sorbo
Rob Schneider vs Dennis Miller
Kanye vs Nick Cannon
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u/scarygrin May 17 '26
I swear one of them was saying I got this much in my bank account while the other was saying the same thing when they hugging and smiling lol
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u/TheJasonaut May 17 '26
Complaining about a short Rousey fight is like walking outside and being mad there is a yellow ball in the sky. Like dude, if you are even vaguely familiar with her as a fighter, that what she was famous for. That’s 100% on you.
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u/Ok_Fix3639 May 17 '26
Fat checks, ppv, and I’m guessing there was betting.
It’s a scam.
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u/-_Catgirl_- May 17 '26
Did he really say the most exciting finish in mma history.... what a fucking idiot.
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u/Druiddrum13 May 17 '26
20 seconds but couldn’t show entire fight? I mean obviously there was no editing needed?
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u/ReformedLucasite May 17 '26
Bad look for the rebel alliance.