Ronda Rousey Destroys Gina Carano in Seconds, Jake Paul Gets Booed in Netflix’s Spotty MMA Debut
A number of storylines converged late Saturday night, as Ronda Rousey (12-2) clashed with Gina Carano (7-1) in the Octagon. The featherweight bout, streamed live on Netflix from LA’s Intuit Dome, marked the first showdown between the two most influential female fighters in MMA history; the first MMA fight for Netflix, courtesy of Jake Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions; and the latest stunt for the streamer featuring pugilists well past their prime (Rousey, 39, hasn’t fought since 2016; Carano, who is 44, last fought in 2009, and claims she lost 100 pounds to make the 145-pound limit). Plus, both featured as toughs in “Fast & Furious” films, with Carano appearing in “Fast & Furious 6” and Rousey swinging at Michelle Rodriguez in “Furious 7.
” Then there are the social media posts. More from Variety Patricio Valladares Fuses Analog and Interactive in New FMV Horror Video Game (EXCLUSIVE) Hollywood Shunned Cannes in 2026: What Will It Take for Studio Blockbusters and Netflix to Return? Donald Trump Discloses at Least $220 Million in Q1 Financial Transactions, Including Purchases of Paramount, WBD, Netflix, Disney and Comcast Securities Back in 2013, which feels like a lifetime ago, Rousey posted a conspiracy-riddled video to her Twitter account claiming that the 26 victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting — 20 young children and 6 adult staffers — were paid actors, calling it “must-watch.
” Following a wave of backlash, Rousey deleted the video and wrote, “Asking questions and doing research is more patriotic than blindly accepting what you’re told. ” She finally apologized for the post over a decade later , in 2024, saying she “regretted it every day of my life. ” Carano’s post came in February 2021 .
In the throes of the COVID pandemic, she posted an image to Instagram of Jews being massacred during the Lviv pogroms in 1941 along with the caption: Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors … even by children. Because history is edited, most people today don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?
The post compared the plight of Jews during the Holocaust to modern-day American conservatives, thus minimizing the Holocaust. She’d also fired off a number of posts mocking people for wearing face masks during the pandemic and questioning the results of the 2020 presidential election. Disney/Lucasfilm subsequently fired her from their Disney+ series “The Mandalorian,” calling her posts “denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.
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