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With her fourth round submission win over former double champ Amanda Nunes at UFC 334, Kayla Harrison has taken another step towards cementing her legacy as one of the greatest women fighters of all time. Her final step? There’s not much left for her to do at this stage in the UFC, although a rematch with Nunes for the abolished 145 pound belt is a possibility.

Another idea thrown out by Harrison during the UFC 334 post-fight press conference?

“I mean, if Ronda [Rousey] wants to come get some, it would be fun,” Harrison said. “Free money.”

That would be a massive fight. Harrison and Rousey have history that goes back 20 years to when they were both Olympic hopefuls training at Jimmy Pedro’s Judo Center. Rousey was three years older than Harrison and top dog at the time. She’d end up beating Harrison both times the two would compete against each other, but Kayla would get the last laugh: while Rousey earned a bronze medal at the 2008 Olympics, Harrison earned gold at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics.

An MMA fight between the two never came together due to timing: Rousey’s historic fight career ran from 2011 to 2016, while Harrison had her first MMA fight in 2018. It was only in 2026 when Rousey returned for a one-off fight against Gina Carano that the two started really attacking each other through the press. Harrison called Rousey vs. Carano ‘irrelevant’ and dismissed Rousey’s opponents as one step removed from cardio-kickboxing classes.

“Honestly, she’s just sour because no matter what she does, she has the charisma of a wet towel and will always be in mine and Gina’s shadows,” Rousey responded. “So, the next time she wants to talk s–t, she should look down at her feet and consider who paved the path she is walking on. Oh, wait, she can’t look down at her feet because she’s too busy holding onto her belt with a neck brace.”

“What did she say after she won the belt?” Rousey added. “She said, ‘Oh, I’m never gonna say anything bad about Ronda, she took care of me and bought me groceries.’ How about you shut the f—k up and eat your groceries.”

Those sound like fighting words, but Rousey’s 2026 comeback plan was always to get in, get paid, get some redemption, and get out.

“There’s no way I could have ended it better than this,” Rousey said in the cage after beating Carano in 17 seconds. “I want to have some more babies and I got to get cooking.”

“I feel like like a ghost was banished and it’s just lifted a weight off of me that I didn’t realize I was still carrying,” she explained at the post-fight press conference. “And yeah, this is exactly what I needed, and
that was closure.”

Despite what sound like very clear words on the subject, Rousey was back in the gym three months after the Carano fight helping her training partner Jena Bishop prepare for her PFL championship fight against Liz Carmouche. Bishop would beat Carmouche via unanimous decision to take the PFL women’s flyweight title, and is now expected to fight Dakota Ditcheva in early 2027. Could Rousey return to the gym to help Bishop again, and could that lead to renewed appetite for another fight?

Even if that did happen, there’s still other massive stumbling blocks, like the UFC’s unwillingness to pay Ronda Rousey what she’s worth on the open market. “Rowdy” took the idea for a fight with Gina Carano to UFC CEO Dana White first, only to be told that the UFC wouldn’t pay for it. While commission pay figures peg her purse at $2.2 million, her actual full pay was implied to be above $5 million and possibly more than $10 million.

“I’m definitely blowing [away] any kind of records there was before for whatever a woman has been paid to fight in any kind of combat sport,” Rousey told CNBC leading up to the fight. “[It] is being beaten by, like, [an] order of magnitude more.”

Would the UFC be willing to pay Rousey that much to fight Harrison? The promotion has cheaped out on paying for bigger fights multiple times in 2027, from Jon Jones vs. Alex Pereira to Ilia Topuria vs. Islam Makhachev. That penny pinching was pointed out by Rousey during promo for the Carano fight where she called UFC COO Hunter Campbell — basically Dana White’s replacement — a ‘chauvinist pr–k.’

“This guy does not have a job because he’s good at it,” Rousey said. “He has a job because he is Dana and Lorenzo’s lawyer’s son. He was a f–king intern when I was there before … Keep trying to fail upwards, motherf–ker. Keep trying to suck the right dicks in the right order.”

It’s hard to imagine Rousey returning to the UFC at this point after talking all that trash, although her close relationship with Dana White means anything is possible. It’s just not very likely. At all.