{"id":118120,"date":"2014-11-07T09:22:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T17:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/?p=118120"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:12:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:12:05","slug":"dana-white-explains-ronda-rouseys-co-main-event-booking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dana-white-explains-ronda-rouseys-co-main-event-booking\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White Explains Ronda Rousey&#8217;s Co-Main Event Booking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/rousey-slams-cyborg-wants-her-charged-with-homicide\/ronda-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117679\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-117679\" src=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ronda.jpg\" alt=\"Ronda\" width=\"550\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ronda.jpg 550w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ronda-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ronda-361x250.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt has nothing to with her not being a star. It goes by weight. If she was the highest weighted champion on the card, she would be the main event, but you have two guys that are\u00a0<\/em><em>middleweight and she weighs 135 pounds \u2013 so she\u2019s the co-main.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UFC President Dana White told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufc.com\/news\/dana-download-november-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UFC.com<\/a> that Ronda Rousey&#8217;s co-main event billing has nothing to do with star power, and everything to do with how the fight business works.<\/p>\n<p>UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey will defend her title against Cat Zingano\u00a0on Feb. 28 from the Staples Center, in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt has nothing to with her not being a star. It goes by weight. If she was the highest weighted champion on the card, she would be the main event, but you have two guys that are\u00a0middleweight and she weighs 135 pounds \u2013 so she\u2019s the co-main.\u201d UFC President Dana White told UFC.com that Ronda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":117679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[255,11,649,16],"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>Dana White Explains Ronda Rousey&#039;s Co-Main Event Booking | 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\/dana-white-explains-ronda-rouseys-co-main-event-booking\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dana White Explains Ronda Rousey&#039;s Co-Main Event Booking | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cIt has nothing to with her not being a star. 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