Gina Carano – “I’m one of the hardest punchers that women’s mixed martial arts has ever seen”
While recently speaking on the PBD Podcast, former fighter Gina Carano addressed a potential showdown with former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey.
“Conviction” Carano, who has not fought professional mixed martial arts since 2009, says that UFC boss Dana White wanted her to come over to the promotion to be the organization’s first female fighter.
“Me and Dana [White] had a conversation right before I fought Cyborg, Dana and Lorenzo Fertitta had me into their office and basically they were like ‘we’d like you to come over and be our company’s first female fighter,’” Carano said. “I just couldn’t do that because I had my promises and my contract to Strikeforce.”
From there the conversation drifted towards the superfight with Rousey, which obviously never happened.
“I do, absolutely [believe I would have won],” Carano said. “Because I pack a hell of a punch. I know how she punches. I punch like a trucker. [She would have the edge] on the ground obviously but I’m scrambly.
“It’s no disrespect and I’m sure she would say the same thing that she would win, but that’s just something I know. After you’ve been punched like that, she got shook twice [by] Amanda Nunes and Holly Holm, I’m one of the hardest punchers that women’s mixed martial arts has ever seen.”
