How Close Did Gina Carano Get to Fighting Ronda Rousey?

When you were thinking about coming back, I remember there was that conversation with you. 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 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, Jujitsu. I don't know where he went. I think he's disappeared into the woods or something. Oh, really? On the mat. Yeah. Yeah. He used to own that store in Las Vegas. Oh, really? Yeah. And he's gone? Him and his brother. I don't know where he is. He's like a mountain man now. Chris Ben-Chapchaw Jivatsi. He's a boxing coach. Used to be an LV boxing coach. Still, you'll see him. Yeah, he's pretty great. So I had my whole team in Vegas. So when Dan White and Lorenzo, they invited me out finally. This had been like five years ago. They said, hey, we'd like to offer you a million dollar fight with Rhonda. And I was like, damn, what took you guys so long? Like 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 don't think me and Kevin were together at that time. I didn't have any connection into where I would do this fight camp. And I knew with the weight and everything, it was going to 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 what I mean? Just to get back into it. I hadn't fought at that time in almost like a decade. So I asked Dana if he could just please keep it quiet. Just don't bring up my name. Give me the time to a six month time. And I, of course. That's reasonable. Yeah. It's not even reasonable. You really need like a year, right? Well, yeah. But I was, you know, I felt like I could at that moment. I felt like six months. Well, Dana, you know, dude. He was like, and I've got Gina Carano. And it's going to be against Ron Rousey. And he started pumping it out on Twitter. And he pumped it out in the interviews. And I was like, whoa, whoa, calm down. First of all, I don't even know who I'm going to 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 going to be a very high profile. Yeah. And so now it made everything so much more difficult. And you know, like that's where we didn't get along for a second. I was like, dude, like, quiet down. If you just quiet down, I can find a team and I can get organized. And then he said something pretty aggressive over text. And I'm just I'm sure he does that. And I was just like, OK, I'm not going to do that. It was very simple for me. That was going to 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 Rhonda. And I thought that was exciting. But after like, you just can't go back into that world and feel instantly disrespected on so many levels. So I was like, I'm cool. I'm going to go. And then I think another movie came up. And I was like, sweet, I'll just go do this movie then. I don't need to be disrespected. That's how that story went. You didn't have any inclination to have another fight. You just wanted to have the Rhonda Rousey fight. I think when you fight, you are constantly fighting. I have a bag downstairs in my garage. I'm on the treadmill and constantly fighting people in my head and having a comeback fight all the time. How old are you now? I'm 40. Do you think you would still do it? I still can't even say that I wouldn't. Because you know Rhonda said that you're the one. I know. And honestly, I feel like she's the one as well if I wanted to. Let's go, ladies. Let's fucking go if you wanted to do it. Give me a dietician because I have to do that or shop 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. It would be an equal weighted. Oh, I'm sure. It would be professional. I have no interest in being like a. If you wanted to do it though, now it's like last call. Yeah. And you know what? When she said that, I'm like, you know, I'm so focused on my dreams in movie making. But I also, I guess you just never lose that want to do it. And for me, I've been looking for something to train for to get my body back and where I want it to be. And so there's just been this little kind of this little thing on my shoulders like, well, you could train and you could get yourself where you want to be and use that as your focus.