Fans Watching the Netflix Press Conference for Ronda Rousey’s Fight With Gina Carano Said She Looks Like 1990’s Tyson
Disney fired Gina Carano for being conservative and spent four years telling Hollywood she was finished.
This week, she walked into a Netflix press conference in New York alongside Ronda Rousey.
Nobody in that room was prepared for what Carano said about Disney – or how Rousey looked.
Disney Tried to Erase Her and She Sued Them Into a Settlement
In February 2021, Lucasfilm yanked Carano from The Mandalorian for posting her political opinions online.
They didn't just fire her.
They killed the Disney+ spinoff series they had been building around her character.
Her talent agency dropped her the same afternoon.
Every door in Hollywood slammed shut simultaneously.
The mob running a #FireGinaCarano hashtag called her posts "abhorrent and unacceptable" – the same week Mandalorian star Pedro Pascal's 2017 post comparing Trump to Hitler went completely unaddressed by Lucasfilm.
Fox News was the only major outlet to name what was actually happening – a Hollywood blacklist targeting conservatives, no different from the Red Scare that silenced suspected communists in the 1940s and 1950s.
Ben Shapiro said it plainly: Hollywood cancelled her for being conservative, so the Daily Wire was fighting back – and he announced a film deal with her the same week she was fired.
Carano refused to apologize and refused to vanish.
She told the world: "They can't cancel us if we don't let them."
In February 2024, she filed a federal lawsuit against Disney and Lucasfilm for wrongful termination and sex discrimination.
Elon Musk paid for it – pledging publicly to fund legal bills for anyone fired over their posts on X.
The lawsuit argued that male actors including Pascal made controversial political statements and kept their careers while Carano lost everything for doing the same.
Disney fought the case for a year and a half.
In August 2025, they settled.
Their statement called Carano "always well respected by her directors, co-stars and staff" – the exact same company that once labeled her posts "abhorrent and unacceptable."
Carano thanked Musk for backing her case "and asking for nothing in return."
Disney even offered to explore "opportunities to work together with Ms. Carano in the near future."
Cancel culture tried its best.
It lost.
Now She Is Headlining Netflix and Rousey Showed Up Looking Like This
Most Valuable Promotions and Netflix announced in February 2026 that Carano and Ronda Rousey would headline the streaming platform's first-ever live MMA event on May 16 at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles.
This was always the biggest what-if in women's combat sports – a matchup fans wanted for a decade that Dana White and the UFC could never put together due to timing, weight class, and the usual dysfunction.
Jake Paul and Netflix just put it together.
The fight is five five-minute rounds at featherweight, professionally sanctioned under the Unified Rules of MMA.
Rousey enters at 12-2 with nine submissions and three knockouts across a career that made women's MMA a mainstream sport before she retired in 2016.
Carano said Rousey approached her personally, told her there was only one person she would come back for, and thanked her for opening doors in her career.
The undercard also includes Nate Diaz vs. Mike Perry and Francis Ngannou – one of the most loaded non-UFC cards ever assembled.
Rousey told reporters she built her entire camp around a garage octagon her husband constructed – training every single day, with her daughter watching from the side and asking why she keeps running the drills.
Rousey's answer: "Because it's what I'm supposed to be doing."
Fans watching the Netflix livestream of the NYC press conference started talking the second Rousey walked in.
Her traps are enormous.
One fan put it directly: she has the neck of 1990s Mike Tyson.
Another said her collarbone "looks indestructible."
Carano smirked off her smaller opponent at the staredown – the expression of a woman with nothing left to prove and a great deal left to settle.
The Story Is Bigger Than the Fight
The entertainment industry wrote Gina Carano off as a liability and a cautionary tale.
The cancel machine only works when the person being cancelled has nobody left willing to stand with them.
Carano had Musk, the Daily Wire, and millions of conservatives who never stopped paying attention.
Now she is headlining Netflix's first-ever MMA event in front of the largest streaming audience on the planet – with Ronda Rousey showing up to the press conference looking like she trains twice a day in a garage octagon.
Because she does.
Disney lost her.
Netflix has her.
The fight is May 16.
Sources:
- Joseph Wulfsohn, "Disney's Gina Carano Firing Denounced as 'Hollywood Blacklist' Against Conservatives," Fox News, February 15, 2021.
- Thomas Myers, "Rousey vs. Carano Fight Card, Start Time, Date and Location," MMA Mania, March 2026.
- Netflix Tudum Staff, "Rousey vs. Carano Fight Card, Rules, and How to Watch," Netflix Tudum, March 16, 2026.
- Jacob Robinson, "Ronda Rousey vs Gina Carano Fight to Stream Live on Netflix in May 2026," What's on Netflix, March 24, 2026.
