Ronda Rousey Thanks Gina Carano for Her Success in New Video After 17-Second Win on Netflix

Ronda Rousey handled Gina Carano with ease during a 17-second victory via armbar submission in their fight Saturday, but she was nothing but thankful toward her opponent in the aftermath.

"She's the only person who could have brought me into MMA and the only person who could have brought me back," Rousey told reporters (one-minute mark). "All of the success and prosperity I've had in my life, financially and all of that, is thanks to her. I would have been hustling for judo clinics if it wasn't for her. … She helped me rekindle my love for this again."

While Rousey is a UFC legend, Carano was one of the pioneers for women in MMA and fought in Strikeforce and Showtime EliteXC before her opponent on Saturday was a household name.

It was fitting, then, that they highlighted Saturday's Most Valuable Promotions card in Inglewood, California. Rousey emerged as the clear-cut victor in her first fight since 2016 but showed plenty of grace toward Carano.

The win also may have been the final one of her MMA career and allowed her to go out on a victory after she lost her previous two fights.

"There's no way I could have ended it better than this," Rousey told Ariel Helwani after the fight.

If that was it for her career, it was one of the most memorable ones in the sport's history. She was the UFC's inaugural women's bantamweight champion and won her first 12 professional fights. Of those 12 fights, 11 of them came in the first round.

The decisive victories made her one of the faces of the sport, and she was eventually inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame in 2018 as the company's first female inductee.

Yet she thanked Carano for leading the way prior to her career and also discussed how much joy she felt preparing for Saturday's fight. 

"I used to feel such a huge wave of relief after a win, and I didn't even feel that at all tonight," Rousey said (1:30 mark). "Because I wasn't stressed out, I didn't have all this anxiety weighing on me again.

"Through this fight camp I figured out the way I should have been doing it all along, and that's another gift that she gave to me. This experience, the last year and a half, has been so fun."