Ronda Rousey backtracks after dragging Paddy Pimblett into feud

During her extended, profanity-laced tirade against Kayla Harrison, Ronda Rousey brought up UFC 324.

The UFC Hall of Famer questioned why Harrison’s doomed matchup with Amanda Nunes was listed as the co-main event when it was being promoted as the biggest fight in women’s MMA history.

Paddy Pimblett, who headlined that event with his interim lightweight title bout against Justin Gaethje, ended up taking a stray as Rousey went off on the current UFC bantamweight champion.

“Her and Hunter [Campbell] were trying to act like her next fight is the biggest women’s fight of all time.”

“Then why is it being booked as the co-main for a men’s interim title fight?

“The b—- isn’t even bigger than Paddy ‘The Baddy’.

Pimblett has plenty going for him at just 29 years old. He only lost once between 2018 and his departure from the promotion six years later.

Paddy Pimblett once praised by Ronda Rousey

Ronda Rousey has made it clear before that she holds Paddy Pimblett in high regard.

The former champion highlighted him as one of the rare fighters who managed to break through to mainstream fame.

“That’s what I think really matters, that you can make people know who you are,” Rousey said in October 2025.

“People that don’t know fighting. And that is how you command the being-an-entertainer aspect.

“I think a lot of the fighters don’t realise that they’re also entertainers.”

“The one person I think who really realises that is Paddy Pimblett. And so I really appreciate that.”