{"id":109504,"date":"2014-08-24T08:23:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T15:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=109504"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:37:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:37:51","slug":"white-confirms-carano-deal-close-hopes-for-more-progress-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/white-confirms-carano-deal-close-hopes-for-more-progress-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"White Confirms Carano Deal Close, Hopes For More Progress In September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/dana-white-ronda-rousey-is-a-fing-mega-star\/ufc-on-fox-vip-party\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-104817\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Dana-Ronda.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"UFC On FOX VIP Party\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-104817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Dana-Ronda.jpg 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Dana-Ronda-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Dana-Ronda-361x250.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With rumors circling last week that Gina Carano had signed with Bellator, UFC President Dana White explained to fans and media where he was in his quest to sign the WMMA legend to a UFC contract.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke with <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2014\/08\/white-says-gina-carano-deal-close-expects-to-know-more-in-september\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s complicated, but I think it\u2019s close.  I had a plan, but now I don\u2019t know.  We have to see how this plays out. As I said before, I should know in September \u2013 the first week of September.\u201d\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UFC women&#8217;s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey also spoke with MMAJunkie about a potential matchup against Carano.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere are very few women that have had one-punch knockout power,\u201d Rousey explained. \u201cThere are other girls that they overwhelm the other person. They get TKOs and stuff like that. But Gina has one-punch knockout power, and that\u2019s the kind of person that I have to be the most cautious of. That\u2019s the style that\u2019s the worst for me, and ever since the beginning, I\u2019ve been positive that Gina is the worst style matchup for me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With rumors circling last week that Gina Carano had signed with Bellator, UFC President Dana White explained to fans and media where he was in his quest to sign the WMMA legend to a UFC contract. He spoke with MMAJunkie: \u201cIt\u2019s complicated, but I think it\u2019s close. I had a plan, but now I don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":104817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[255,9,383,11,790,15],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>White Confirms Carano Deal Close, Hopes For More Progress In September | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/white-confirms-carano-deal-close-hopes-for-more-progress-in-september\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"White Confirms Carano Deal Close, Hopes For More Progress In September | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With rumors circling last week that Gina Carano had signed with Bellator, UFC President Dana White explained to fans and media where he was in his quest to sign the WMMA legend to a UFC contract. 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