There's no love misplaced between Ronda Rousey and Joe Rogan.
Rousey, 38, made that a lot clear in an look on the “Bertcast Podcast” with comic Bert Kreischer — Rogan's longtime good friend.
“He's not an professional,” Rousey stated of Rogan, 58, on the Wednesday, October 29 episode. “He's a fan with an viewers. He by no means fought.”
Rousey added,”That's not preventing,” when Kreischer introduced up Rogan's Taekwondo and Brazilian jiu-jitsu background.
The subject arose when Kreischer requested what it might take for Rousey, who retired from MMA in 2016, to return to the octagon. After she playfully instructed a $1 billion payday, Kreischer instructed himself as an opponent.
“I'll beat the s*** out of you in your yard for this home,” Rousey replied, prompting Kreischer's Rogan suggestion. “Let's go. … Proper now. Now or by no means.”
Rousey and Rogan's feud dates again to the tip of Rousey's UFC profession. Previous to that, the UFC commentator was complimentary of her, even one time saying she might beat half of the UFC males's bantamweight roster. He modified his tune, nonetheless, after Rousey suffered defeats to Holly Holm and Amanda Nunes.
“I shouldn't have stated it on the time,” Rogan stated in a 2017 episode of his “Joe Rogan Expertise” podcast. “Now it's positively not true. She might beat a couple of that aren't good exterior the game. Look, if she will get guys on the bottom, she might f*** lots of people up. Her Judo is 100% legit, her armbars are amongst the most effective within the enterprise, however individuals had been all the time saying that. Thank god now that she's misplaced everybody's relaxed with that.”
Rousey regarded again on these feedback in a 2024 look on “The Chris Cuomo Venture” podcast.
“It was actually disappointing to see how fortunately all people turned on me and the way individuals like Joe Rogan, who had been crying within the ring concerning the honor of with the ability to name my fights, individuals I thought-about associates within the media, so shortly turned on me,” she stated.
Rousey continued, “The MMA media hates me, it's high quality. Not a single individual has known as me or something like that. They've all simply doubled down and stated that I'm making excuses or mendacity or blowing issues out of proportion, or not giving credit score the place it's due. No, I've not. I'll be ready for that decision perpetually.”
“I'm not ready for it, and I get that they're a bunch of a**holes,” she stated. “That's what I get. I get, ‘F*** you.' No less than I'd somewhat not have these faux friendships in my life. I'd somewhat that these individuals expose themselves, and I don't go away myself open to them. I'd somewhat cleanse myself of all these faux, superficial relationships than have them nonetheless round.”
Rousey's criticism isn't restricted to Rogan. Chatting with Kreischer, she known as MMA followers and media, “probably the most ‘what have you ever executed recently for us' crowd of any sport.”
“You take a look at WWE and so they have such a reverence for his or her legends,” she defined. “In MMA, it's just like the second that you just're not on high, you're not s*** and also you by no means had been s***. Chuck Liddell, when he's on high, ‘He's the most effective, he's the most effective.' The second that he loses, ‘Oh Chuck Liddell ain't s***, he by no means was s***.”
