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Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano's topless pics and raciest snaps ahead of Netflix mega fight

WARNING, NUDITY: Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano will headline a Most Valuable Promotions card live on Netflix and the two MMA icons know how to command the attention of fans in and out of the ring

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    Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano are set to square off

    Ronda Rousey is finally getting her "dream fight" when she steps back into the ring this weekend to face Gina Carano.

    The Baddest Woman on the Planet is back - for a fight she never dreamed might be possible. Standing across from Rousey will be Carano, a trailblazer who left the wild world of MMA before Rousey elevated it in the UFC then left for WWE, and they both know how to command the attention of fans - in and out of martial arts combat. The duo will square off at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, California live on Netflix for Jake Paul's Most Valuable Promotions.

    "I'm definitely loving it more than ever before," Rousey told The Pat McAfee Show. "There's definitely been people trying to convince me to continue because there's a lot of money to be made, but I feel like this is the absolute peak for me. This is my dream fight. This is the way that I always wanted to end it and go out."

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    Rousey, 39, last fought in 2016, in a TKO loss to Amanda Nunes. Before then she had become the first American woman to win an Olynpic medal in judo with a bronze at the 2008 Summer Olympics and become Women's Bantamweight Champion with Strikeforce and then the UFC's inaugural Women's Bantamweight Champion.

    Since then she transitioned over to WWE - becoming a two-time Smackdown Women's Champion, Raw Women's Champion, Women's Tag Team Champion and a Royal Rumble winner. And, on top of all of that, she became the first woman to main event WrestleMania - in a triple threat with Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch. However, after leaving the company in 2023 she has appeared in Ring of Honor.

    Rousey, though, never shut the door on an MMA return, and she will do so against Carano. The 44-year-old, like Rousey, in an MMA icon. She competed in Elite Xtreme Combat and Strikeforce from 2006 to 2009, earning a 71 record and being called the "face of women's MMA".

    She and Cris Cyborg were the first women to headline a major MMA event during their 2009 Strikeforce bout. But she walked away from the sport after suffering her first professional MMA defeat in that clash. Carano has often teased a return. but the stars didn't align until Rousey approached her last year.

    During her time away from fighting, Carano had her big break on the silver screen, initially as a stuntwoman. She then appeared in the Fast and Furious franchise, Deadpool and most notably in The Mandalorian on Disney Plus.

    And as the pair get ready to start throwing haymakers at each other in the early hours of Sunday morning, May 17, Daily Star Sport has a look at the pair's raciest images including topless snaps and body paint photoshoots...

    1. UFC Queen

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      There was a point in time that Ronda Rousey seemed almost untouchable in the UFC - off the back of a bronze medal in judo at the 2008 Olympics, she took her skills to Dana White's promotion.

      In just her fifth fight, Rousey won the Strikeforce Bantamweight Championship, which was later promoted to the UFC Bantamweight Championship after her sixth fight in late 2012.

      Rousey would defend that title through six more bouts, finally dropping the belt to Holly Holm in 2015 - when she was knocked out in the second round.

      Her final UFC bout came just over 12 months later, in a losing effort to Knox.

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    2. Beauty meets Brawn

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      Throughout her time in the UFC - Rousey would prove she has the beauty to the brawn and posed for numerous magazine's to show off her toned physique.

      And she posed on the cover of Sports Illustrated in nothing but a body painted swimsuit.

      Speaking at the time, she said: "I was surprised about how good it looked. I was surprised it actually looked like I fit with that company, you know.

      "I'm not a full model like those other girls. Mostly I was surprised that I could hang. That's what I thought when I saw it."

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    3. Modeling career?

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      Speaking about how the opportunity came about, Rousey added: "Well, after I did the swimsuit issue last year, I knew that I wanted to do it again.

      "When they approached me with the idea of doing body paint with Joann Gair, I mean, she's a legend of her industry, and it was really a huge privilege and opportunity to work with her.

      "I was really excited to be a canvas for her. I was really looking forward to seeing what ideas they came up with."

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    4. 'You find ways to cover yourself'

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      However, for Rosey, posing in body paint was a breeze for a woman who bared all for ESPN: "You know what, I've done, like, shoots before, like I did the ESPN "body" shoot, and that was my first big shoot that I've ever done.

      "But this was a lot different because when you shoot nude, you always find a way to, like, cover yourself up in a way. So you really don't feel like you're truly naked because you're still covering yourself.

      "Even though I was painted, even though I had on seven layers of paint - to the point that I got a tan, it was as thick as a fabric - I think I felt the most naked because I couldn't cover myself at all."

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    5. More photoshoots

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      Rousey has always been in touch with her feminine side - and the knockout proved she was a knockout during another shoot with Sports Illustrated.

      The blonde beauty, wore a teeny tiny bikini as she teased the camera in a range of snaps, shortly before Holly Holm finally dropped the UFC Queen.

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