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Khamzat Chimaev has a bone to pick with Ronda Rousey.
For the past month, Rousey has been crushing the UFC over fighter pay while promoting her upcoming Netflix fight vs Gina Carano.
“They didn’t want to set a precedent of giving me the guaranteed money I deserve… They just made a $7.7 billion deal at Paramount. It’s in their best interest not to put on the best fights possible, but to spend as little money as possible so they can keep it… Now that they sold the company, it’s out of Dana’s hands unfortunately, and it’s fallen onto Hunter Campbell and UFC corp. They don’t care about putting on the best fights possible; they care about putting on the most cost-effective fights possible.”
Rousey went so far as to say that many of their fighters are forced to do humiliating things just to make ends meet.
“It’s why so many of their top athletes are leaving to go and find pay elsewhere,” Rousey said. “It’s why their champions like Valentina [Shevchenko] are selling pictures of their titties on OnlyFans. These people, a lot of them at the ground level, they can’t support their families. They’re living poverty-level fighting full-time.”
During a recent live stream, Chimaev, the current UFC middleweight champion, blasted Rousey over her comments.
“There would never have been Ronda Rousey without UFC. I hate this, like [ungrateful].
“If they pay good or don’t pay good, who cares. When she was Olympic champ, what did she make then?”
Khamzat Chimaev went IN on Ronda Rousey after her recent comments about UFC fighter pay 😬
“There would never have been Ronda Rousey without UFC. I hate this, like [ungrateful].
If they pay good or don’t pay good, who cares. When she was Olympic champ, what did she make then?”… pic.twitter.com/2rm6pwl2u7
— Championship Rounds (@ChampRDS) April 23, 2026