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John Wood thinks it’s possible he works with Gina Carano for another fight. | Sarah Stier/Getty Images for Netflix
After nearly 17 years away, Gina Carano only got to spend 17 seconds in the cage in her mixed martial arts return.
Carano succumbed to a Ronda Rousey armbar in the main event of Most Valuable Promotions’ first MMA card this past Saturday at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles. In her post-fight interview, Carano admitted that she would have liked a chance to show more in her first fight since Aug. 15, 2009. Coach John Wood, who led Carano’s camp, also believes that she might have more to prove before she walks away from the sport for good.
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“I do not believe that that itch has been scratched yet for Gina, but we’ll see,” Wood told Home of Fight. “There’s a lot of things already coming at her. I could tell you, behind the scenes, there’s a lot of activity already, so ultimately the decision is hers. It was never a need for money. This was a personal thing for her to come back and do this.
“Truthfully for me, she found the love of fighting again. As a coach, I see somebody in the room who, she can still fight. And there’s a lot of people that she can still beat, I guarantee you. You know, I think with the right matchups and the right, fair matchups, that we can have some fun out there. So we’ll see what she decides to do.”
Carano was an early pioneer for women’s MMA, facing Julie Kedzie in the first women’s fight to be broadcast on national television. She was victorious in her first seven professional outings before falling to Cristiane Justino via first-round technical knockout under the Strikeforce banner. Ahead of her comeback fight against Rousey, Carano revealed she lost more than 100 pounds as a result of her training.
Filling the Void?
With that work out of the way, Wood has hopes that Carano will take another fight in the not too distant future.
“I personally would like to see her do it again,” Wood said. “I personally would like to see her take the work that we did and actually have another camp that would be focused on just fighting because all the hard work, the bulls—t, the weight cut has been done. I would love to see her have another camp and do a fun fight.
“Do I think she’s going to do it? I would lean more to yes than no. I feel like there’s going to be kind of the same thing that Ronda had — that empty hole that was left in her. Gina’s gonna have that now after going through this process and being fired up. I think that maybe we see another one.”
🚨👀 Gina Carano’s coach John Wood says she can still beat a lot of fighters and believes she’ll fight again soon:
“I see somebody in the room who, she can still fight, dude. And there’s a lot of people that she can still beat, I guarantee you. You know, I think with the right… pic.twitter.com/K0nfeF4s0O
— Home of Fight (@Home_of_Fight) May 20, 2026
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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