Ronda Rousey refers to UFC champion Kayla Harrison as 'irrelevant' and 'sour'

Ronda Rousey refers to UFC champion Kayla Harrison as 'irrelevant' and 'sour' originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The war of words between Ronda Rousey and Kayla Harrison continued on Wednesday during a press conference promoting Rousey's upcoming Netflix bout with Gina Carano.

While Harrison, the reigning UFC women's bantamweight champion, had her chance to discuss Rousey already, this time, it was "Rowdy" who used the microphone to address her fellow former Olympian Judo standout. "Kayla is so irrelevant that she couldn't keep the 145-pound division around," Rousey said (thanks to MMA Junkie for the quotes). "And honestly, she's just sour because no matter what she does or what she accomplishes, she can't change the fact that she has the charisma of a wet towel and will always be under me and Gina's shadow.

"The next time she wants to talk (expletive), she should look down at her feet and consider who paved the road she's walking on. Oh wait, she can't look down at her feet because she's too busy holding on the belt and a neck brace. " Kayla Harrison won two Olympic golds, Ronda Rousey a bronze Rousey, a 39-year-old who won bronze at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Beijing, was the inaugural UFC bantamweight women's champion.

She was inducted into the UFC's Hall of Fame in 2018 as part of the Modern Wing. After suffering her first loss in 2015 to Holly Holm, Rousey returned over a year later to take on Amanda Nunes, suffering another loss, this one in just 48 seconds. She had a run in the WWE after, ending her decade-long exit from MMA to meet Carano.