“He sent aggressive text messages,” Gina Carano reveals how Dana White ruined super fight against Ronda Rousey with premature news leak

Gina Carano was the golden girl of women’s MMA during her short professional fighting career. Despite the short amount of time she competed, Carano became a very popular and influential figure in the world of MMA. Her popularity had reached the height where she was set to fight Ronda Rousey in the UFC. But that fight failed to materialize itself. Gina Carano later revealed that Dana White was one of the big reasons why the fight was canceled on Joe Rogan’s podcast.

Joe Rogan on his podcast questioned Gina Carano about how serious was her comeback fight against Ronda Rousey and why it did not take place. Carano stated that Dana White and Lorenzo Fertitta offered her a million-dollar fight deal against Ronda Rousey. However, Carano at the time did not have any gym or team to train with. Gina had also not fought for a long time and needed at least a year to get into fighting shape. For this reason, Carano Asked Dana White to keep it down and not release the news for at least 6 more months. However, White released the news very soon, putting Carano in a difficult situation.

With the fight being so high profile, every gym would have wanted to be a part of Carano’s comeback. But Carano did not like that idea and asked Dana White to ‘quiet it down’. White did not like that and insulted Carano.

“He said something pretty aggressive over text messages, I’m sure you know he does that and I was just like yeah, okay I’m not gonna do that. It was very simple for me like, that was gonna be something for me and I was excited to be back in that world and I was excited to do something like that, I respect Ronda and I thought that it was exciting,” said Gina Carano.

Gina also revealed she had a movie offer lined up at the same time. After White’s insult, she took up that offer instead of the fight. Dana White might have fumbled this up, but Ronda Rousey still wanted a fight with Carano. Ronda Rousey also stated that she would return to MMA only if her next opponent was Gina Carano.

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The professional career of Gina Carano outside MMA

Gina Carano has had a relatively short career in the world of combat sports. Despite her short time, Carano became one of the most well-known people in the MMA community. Gina Carano has not competed in professional MMA since 2009, but her impact on Women’s MMA is so huge that even Ronda Rousey wanted to fight her.

Outside her MMA career, Gina appeared in the reality television series Fight Girls in 2007, where she served as a mentor. Gina also participated in American Gladiators and performed as the character Crush in 2008. Carano stated that combat sports at the time did not pay well enough and fighters needed to have their second hustle. With her good looks and charm, Gina made it to Hollywood, debuting in the movie Haywire in 2011.

After her big feature, Gina has since continued her career in acting with roles in movies like Deadpool and Fast & Furious 6. Aside from movies, Carano also acted in television series like Almost Human and popular Disney Plus series like The Mandalorian.

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