Ronda Rousey fired off robust phrases about UFC govt Hunter Campbell this week. The feedback got here days earlier than her MMA return in opposition to Gina Carano on Could 16 on the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California. Rousey, 39, enters with a 12-2 report; her final struggle was a 2016 loss to Amanda Nunes. Carano, additionally returning after years away, holds a 7-1 mark.
Ronda Rousey blasts Hunter Campbell earlier than Gina Carano struggle on Netflix
Rousey spoke on The Ariel Helwani Present about failed UFC talks for the struggle. She mentioned Campbell dismissed the matchup, calling fighters over 145 kilos nugatory and suggesting it may finish the ladies’s featherweight division. She recalled Campbell as an intern throughout her UFC days, now the Chief Business Officer. Rousey claimed he questioned how she and Carano, each older, would carry out. She defined:
“We’re glorified bum fights to this man. This man doesn’t have a job as a result of he’s good at it, he has a job as a result of he’s Dana and Lorenzo’s lawyer’s son. He was fucking intern after I was there earlier than and now he’s coming as much as me saying, ‘I don’t understand how you and Gina are going to do.’ Like motherfucker I’m gonna placed on an even bigger struggle with Gina than you have got your whole fucking profession. Maintain attempting to fail upwards motherfucker. Maintain attempting to suck the best dicks in the best order. I’m fucking coming to your job.”
Hunter Campbell joined UFC full-time in 2017 as basic counsel after working at a regulation agency, Campbell & Williams. He interned at UFC in 2006 and have become Dana White’s private legal professional. Promoted to Chief Enterprise Officer in 2019, he handles fighter contracts, matchmaking, visas, and offers just like the ESPN partnership. White calls him his “wartime consigliere.”
Dana White supported Rousey vs. Carano for the vacant ladies’s featherweight title, per Rousey, however Campbell blocked it. The pair by no means fought in UFC; talks fell aside years in the past over a textual content from White. Carano left MMA after a 2009 loss, pursued performing in movies like Haywire and Deadpool, and performed Cara Dune on The Mandalorian till her 2021 firing over social media posts. She settled the lawsuit with Disney in 2025.
Rousey helped launch ladies’s MMA in UFC however retired after back-to-back losses. She previously wrestled within the WWE and says this struggle could also be her final match.
The bout headlines MVP MMA 1, a debut occasion from Jake Paul’s Most Useful Promotions. It streams reside on Netflix beginning at 9 p.m. ET, with prelims at 6 p.m. ET on Netflix Tudum and MVP’s YouTube channel. The cardboard contains Francis Ngannou vs. Philippe Lins, Nate Diaz vs. Mike Perry, Junior dos Santos vs. Robel Despaigne, and Muhammad Mokaev vs. Adriano Moraes.
