UFC women’s Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey did an “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit yesterday. She was asked if she would consider entering WWE after retiring from UFC. She responded with the following:
“Definitely,” Rousey replied. “I love being in WrestleMania and will find a way to get back in the squared circle I just have no clue when. And any real wrestling fan would want to be surprised anyway.”
Source: WrestlingINC.com
Words most dominate athlete, UFC women’s bantamweight champion, 2008 Olympic bronze medalist, New York Times best seller. The list of accomplishments are ever growing for Ronda Rousey, and now you can add Official sponsor of fast food chain Carl’s Jr. to the list.
The chain confirmed to Eater.com that Rousey will be the new face of the company’s commercials with the first spot debuting in a few weeks.
Carl’s Jr. has always been one of my personal favorite fast food joints but I along with many others find previous commercials to be totally pointless and in some ways believe they degrade women. I mean how does a woman in a bikini help sell a burger???
Previous faces in Carl’s Jr. commercials include the likes of Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton. I personally think having someone like Rousey as the new face is a great business move for both Carl’s Jr. and the UFC. I mean who doesn’t love fast food? This can possibly bring a new set of eyes to UFC along with marking Carl’s Jr. more appealing.
Are you excited for this new partnership? The first commercial is said to be debuting by the end of this month so be on the look out.
-Vanessa (@GreatLove91)
This past Saturday at UFC190 Ronda Rousey successfully defended her Women’s Bantamweight title by disposing Bethe Correia via KO in a astounding 34 seconds.
The 12-0 athlete shows no signs of slowing down. She aims to defend her title for a 7th time against well known rival Miesha Tate in December and then go off to shoot Mile 22, a film Rousey will star in opposite Mark Walburg
Now variety has an exclusive that Rousey’s memoir and New York Times best seller My fight your Fight has been picked up by Paramount Pictures to become a major motion picture as Ronda Rousey playing herself. It’s not often someone plays themselves on a film but as we all know by now Rousey loves to break down barriers.
The film has no release date but director Mark Bomback is on board to adapt the book into a movie while Mary Parent will serve as producer.
Parent had this to say about the opportunity of making a best seller into a blockbuster
“It’s a real honor to be a part of bringing Ronda’s incredible story to the big screen,”
You can read the full story on this major announcement here http://variety.com/2015/film/news/ronda-rousey-biopic-autobiography-my-fight-your-fight-1201553460/
Who’s excited for this film!? I know I am.
-Vanessa (@GreatLove91)
UFC 190 from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Main Card PPV – 10PM ET
Women’s Bantamweight Title Fight: (C) Ronda Rousey VS Bethe Correia
Light Heavyweight: #8 Mauricio Rua VS #11 Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
Bantamweight: Reginaldo Vieira VS Dileno Lopes
Heavyweight: #15 Stefan Struve VS Minotauro Noguerira
Heavyweight: #12 “Bigfoot” Antonio Silva VS Soa Palelei
Women’s Strawweight: #1 Claudia Gadelha VS #15 Jessica Aguilar
FOX Sports 1 Prelims – 8PM ET
Welterweight: #6 Demian Maia VS #13 Neil Magny
Light Heavyweight: #10 Rafael Cavalcante VS #14 Patrick Cummins
Welterweight: Warlley Alves VS Nordine Taleb
Bantamweight: #13 Iuri Alcantara VS Leandro Issa
UFC Fight Pass Early Prelims – 7PM ET
Middleweight: Vitor Miranda VS Clint Hester
Bantamweight: Hugo Viana VS Guido Cannetti
You read the headline right folks, The Queen of Spades is set to make her in-ring debut as a professional wrestler. The announcement came last Thursday when Shayna was a guest on the podcast MMA Jam session.
This however won’t be the first time Shayna Baszler has made some noise in the world of professional wrestling, earlier this year she managed ROH tag team reDRagon aiding them in victory against the young Bucks at ROH’s 13th Anniversary show. Then just a few weeks ago she made her presence known at ECCW’s Ballroom Brawl 4 When she laid a beating on goddess Mandy AND cost Nicole Matthews the titles in the main event triple threat ladder match.
This time though the MMA veteran will get to show the world what catch wrestling is all about as she takes on one of the biggest stars in the independent wrestling circuit Chearleader Melissa aka Melissa Anderson. Here is what Baszler had to say about the match:
Chearleader Melissa is a former Shimmer champion and a former TNA knockout where she competed under the names Raisha Saeed and Allisa Flash.
Baszler and Melissa will main event on the night of September 26th 2015 for wrestling promotion QPW at the Evalyn community center in Reno Nevada.
As far as Baszler’s MMA career goes she has went on record to say that she is NOT done fighting and she will return to the cage in the future, but for now the queen of Spades is having some fun and living out one of her dreams.
As a fan and friend of Shayna’s I couldn’t be any happier for her and know that she’s going to take the wrestling world by storm.
I will be sure that I keep you all updated as to when tickets go on sale for this event so be sure to check our Twitter @WrestlingNewsbg regularly to stay in the loop. Now I’m not making it official BUT yours truly may be attending this event and if I do you can bet I’ll be bringing exclusive coverage so STAY TUNED!!!
-Vanessa (@GreatLove91)
UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey won 2 ESPY Awards last night. She won Best Female Athlete and Best Fighter.
She beat out boxer Floyd Mayweather for Best fighter. She was presented that award on the red carpet and she took a couple of verbal shots at him. Rousey said, “I wonder how Floyd feels being beat by a woman for once.” She also said, “I’d like to see you pretend to not know who I an now!”
PPV Main Card – 10PM ET
Interim Featherweight Title Fight: #1 Chad Mendes VS #3 Conor McGregor
Welterweight Title Fight: (C) Robbie Lawler VS #2 Rory MacDonald
Featherweight: #8 Dennis Bermudez VS #11 Jeremy Stephens
Welterweight: #15 Gunnar Nelson VS Brandon Thatch
Bantamweight: #15 Brad Pickett VS #14 Thomas Almeida
Fox Sports 1 Prelims – 8PM ET
Welterweight: #5 Matt Brown VS Tim Means
Welterweight: Mike Swick VS Alex Garcia
Welterweight: Cathal Pendred VS John Howard
Bantamweight: Cody Garbrandt VS Henry Briones
UFC Fight Pass Early Prelims – 7PM ET
Flyweight: Neil Seery VS Louis Smolka
Lightweight: Yosdenis Cedeno VS Cody Pfister
To be honest I never thought I would be writing a piece partaining to this situation but nearly a year later here we are.
Before reading this though you should read Shayna and Jessamyn’s statements about the events first which were released yesterday.
You can do so here http://thesportspost.com/blogs/view/mma-jessamyn-duke-shayna-baszler-street-fight
However if you’ve already read their statement you know what this article will contain and as you probably already guest I’m the “super fan turned friend” refered to in the article.
For the people who have been following our site for quite sometime you may recall a time where we did a special show in which I needed prayer, you may also recall me taking a break from the site due to personal issues, and further more if you’re a follower of the site you know myself a long with the rest of them team have tons of love for Jessamyn Duke and Shayna Baszler. Well if you ever wondered why to any of the things listed above this is why.
Now I’m not going to retell the whole entire story because you can read the girls statement for that and quite honestly I don’t want to relive that again.
What I will tell you though are things that happened that weren’t mentioned but I hold near and dear to my heart. (Feel special this is a big deal for me)
As you know we were all waiting for my ride which should’ve been there hours ago. As said in the other article (reefer to above) i insisted to Shayna, Jessamyn and Justin that I was perfectly ok waiting alone but being the awesome people they are they wernt having it.
What wasn’t mentioned that at one point I geeked out over watching the sunset with three bad ass fighters, or that Jessamyn bought me a very berry Hibiscus (my favorite drink from Starbucks) or that Justin gave me some of his food because it was obvious that I was hungry even though I turned down the offer of said food about three times, or that when it got cold (I didn’t ask for help but received it anyway) in the form of Shayna helping me get my hoodie on. In fact I recall her saying “see arnt your glad we’re here to help”? And boy was I.
Here comes the part that still makes me emotional but also smile like a kid in a candy story. After the incident took place as one could imagine I was pretty distraught. I was sitting in the back of the war wagon (Shayna’s car) crying my eyes out and Jessamyn looks straight at me (bloodied face and all) and says: “hey Vanessa don’t cry. I’d take a baseball bat to the face for you any day and if that’s not love I don’t know what love is” (GUYS THATS LOVE)
The sweetness doesn’t stop there through because both Shayna and Justin also offered words of encouragement that day. I remember crying to justin telling him that I wasn’t sure what was going to happen next because I knew I didn’t want to be where I lived at the time and I continued to tell him that my family situation was a bit complicated to which he apologized saying: “Sorry if we made it worse for you” to which I assured him that wasn’t the case and if anything they made it better. Justin then went on and thanked me for all the support I give and that from this moment on they would have my back.
While still crying, came the last heart to heart of that night and it involved Shayna and I. She was still outside waiting to be questioned by the cops as I sat in her car (which is very comfortable might I add) the window happened to be rolled down and she managed to stick her hand through the open space. She took my hand and looked me square in the eyes and said “hey don’t feel bad about anything that happened tonight none of it is your fault” she then asked me “what’s the number one thing in the Queens Army” to which I replied LOYALTY and her response was :”that’s right, you’re loyal to me and I’m loyal to you, don’t ever forget that”
In truth I think that day was the day The General was born. I mean sure fellow MMA fans had been calling me that for quite sometime but these events made it official.
In all honesty Jessamyn, Shayna and Justin saved my life that day. They put their lives in danger to defend my honor because let’s be real it could’ve been far worse then it was. Yes it was a shitty situation but it turned out for the better for me and started a friendship that I never dreamed of having.
So next time you wonder why I’m constantly defending these fighters here’s your answer. They’re my heroes.
-Vanessa (@GreatLove91)
Today was a huge day for the UFC as they announced the release of the Reebok fight kit. That wasn’t the only reason why this day is being talked about though because some disheartening news just came to light and was confirmed by UFC president Dama White himself.
Earlier in the moth UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo sustained an injury that was first reported as a broken rib putting his fight with Conor McGregor in jeopardy sending fans into a frenzy, but was later confirmed as a just a bruised rib and the mayhem died down.
Today however UFC president Dana White said in an interview on sports center that Aldo’s coach informed him the pain was to severe and that Jose Aldo would be pulling out of his scheduled title defense during international fight week.
This makes the 5th title defense Aldo has pulled out of in his career so Dana White and the UFC have made the decision to have a bout for the interim featherweight title.
The new main event of UFC189 will now be Chad Mendes VS Conor McGregor and the winner of that fight will walk out of the octagon as the interim UFC featherweight champion.
UFC189 will take place live on PPV from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on July 11th. The PPV will also feature co main event for the Welterweight title between Robbie Lawer and Rory McDonald.
This announcement is definitely a huge blow to the card along with fight fans alike since the UFC has been hyping up this fight for nearly over a year.
How do you guys feel about this announcement and who are you rooting for Mendes or McGregor??? Let us know in the comments.
In the meantime we here at WrestlingNewsBlog would like to wish Jose Aldo a speedy recovery.
-Vanessa (@GreatLove91)
The Latest rumor of the rumor mill has me geeking out like no other.
It is being reported on various news sites but more noteably the Wrestling News Observer that people within the WWE are interested in women’s Batemweight fighter Jessamyn “the Gun” Duke
The feeling is that Triple H believes that the success Ronda Rousey has had in the UFC and even in her WrestleMania appearance for the WWE proves that women can main event or at least be a more important factor to the business.
It is being said that not only does the WWE have intrest in Duke but they also have ideas already written out for her. For what it’s worth the WWE has already started their own version of the 4Horsewomen which includes Charlotte, Sasha Banks, Bayley and Becky Lynch. The original 4horsewomen was a fan proclaimed idea that took the MMA world by storm that includes Ronda Rousey, Shayna Baszler, Jessamyn Duke and Marina Shafir
It’s said that if the WWE does indeed sign Jessamyn it would be as a contestant in diva search a reality based competition where the next WWE diva is chosen essentially based off looks and skill to go with it.
All of this is just hear say at the moment but it is something to think about. Jessamyn is currently 1-2 in the UFC having lost her last two fights with a professional record of 3-2.
Jessamyn Duke’s next opponent will be Elizabeth Phillips whom she defeated once before as an amateur. The bout is scheduled to take place July 25th at UFC fight night in Chicago. Jessamyn will be returning to the cage after a year being out with a hand injury and waiting to get the call back
Wether this happens are not it should be noted that Duke does have a love and respect for the business so I think she would make a great fit to the roster. Only time will tell but for now the octagon is where you’ll see her
You can follow Jessamyn on Twitter @jessamynduke she’s awesome I promise.
-Vanessa (@GreatLove91)
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