Name: How Close Did Gina Carano Get to Fighting Ronda Rousey?
Uploaded: 2022-06-28T17:57:34.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How Close Did Gina Carano Get to Fighting Ronda Rousey?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-06-28. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How Close Did Gina Carano Get to Fighting Ronda Rousey?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-06-28. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan experience when you were thinking about coming back, I remember
There was that conversation with you. Well, there was a potential comeback
fight with Rhonda. Yeah, how serious was that?
It was very serious. What stopped it from happening? So, you know how like, you
know, I went, I'm living in LA
I used to train out of Randy Couture's in
Vegas and I had my whole group there, right? I had Scott Berry jiu-jitsu. I don't
know where he went
I think he's like disappeared into the woods or something remember on the mat.
Yeah. Yeah, he used to own that store in Las Vegas. Yeah
Him and his brother. I don't know where he is. Hmm. Like he's like a mountain
man now
Chris Benchop Javatsi. He's a boxing coach used to be, you know, the boxing
coach
Still you'll see him
Yeah, he's pretty great
so I had my whole team in
Vegas
So when Randy or when Dana White and Lorenzo, they invited me out finally like,
you know
This had have been like five years ago. They said hey, we'd like to offer you
like, you know, a million-dollar fight with Rhonda
and I was like damn what took you guys so long like
What I told what I had told Dana and Lorenzo at that time was you know, I don't
have a team
I don't even have an idea of a team. I don't have a gym
I have um, you know, I don't think me and Kevin were together at that time
I didn't have any connection into, you know, where I would do this fight camp
and I knew you know with the weight and everything
It was gonna take me a good
It would take me three months to get the weight stabilized and then it would
take me four months to actually be in like fight camp
You know, I mean just to get back into it. I hadn't fought at that time almost
like a decade
so I just asked Dana if you could just please keep it quiet, you know
Just don't bring up my name, you know, give me the time to it a six-month time
and I of course
Of course that's reasonable. Yeah, it's not even reasonable. You really need
like a year, right?
Well, yeah, I was you know, I felt like I could at that moment. I felt like six
months
Well, they know, you know, dude, he was like
And I've got gina chrono and it's gonna be against ronda rousey and he started
pumping it out on the you know
Twitter and he pumped it out in the interviews and I was like, whoa, whoa like
calm down like
first of all, I don't even know who I'm gonna train with so now you've made it
harder for me to walk into a gym and just get
Comfortable with people because now everybody knows I'm looking for a team. I'm
looking for something right and it's gonna be a very high profile
yeah, and so now it made everything so much more difficult and
um
You know, like that's where we didn't get along for a second. I was like dude
like right like quiet down
Like if you just quiet down I can find a team and I can get organized
And then I he said something pretty aggressive over text messages. I'm sure you
know he he does that and um
I was just like yeah, okay, i'm not gonna do that like it was very simple for
me like
That was gonna be something for me. Um, and I was excited to be back in that
world
And I was excited to do something like that. Um, I respect ronda and I thought
that was exciting
um, but
After like
You just can't like go back into that world and feel instantly disrespected on
so many levels. So I was like
I'm cool
I'm gonna go and then I think another movie came up and I was like sweet
I'll just go do this movie then you know, like i'm not gonna I don't need to be
disrespected, you know
So that's that's how that story went
Do you didn't have any?
Inclination to have another fight you just wanted to have the ronda rousey
fight
I mean, I think when you fight you are constantly fighting
I have a bag in my you know downstairs in my
garage like I
I'm you know on the treadmill and constantly fighting people in my head and
having a comeback fight all the time
How old do you know i'm 40 so do you think you would still do it?
I mean, I still can't even say that I wouldn't you know, because you know ronda
said yeah
That you're the one I know and honestly I I feel like she's the one as well if
I wanted to you know
Let's go ladies
Let's fucking go if you wanted to do it
Get me a dietician because I have to either do that or chop off in my entire
leg
I'm sure there's people she said she'd fight you at 205. I know you know me or
you don't know me
But I would not I it would be an equal weighted, you know, oh i'm sure
It would be professional and i'm not have no interest in being like if you
wanted to do it though
Now it's like last call. Yeah, and you know what I wouldn't when she said that
i'm like, you know
I'm so focused on um my dreams in in moviemaking, but I also I guess you just
never
You never lose that want to do it right you and for me
I i've been looking for something to train for to get my body back and and
where I want it to be
And so there's just been with this little kind of this little thing on my
shoulders like well
You could you could train and you could get yourself where you want to be and
use that as your focus for