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Joan Jett addresses UFC champ Ronda Rousey's use of 'Bad Reputation'

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She may be an unlikely fan of the UFC, but Joan Jett couldn’t be more thrilled that UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey is using her hit song to further her own bad reputation.

“I’m really amazed when people utilize our music to represent them and something they do,” Jett told AXS TV at the Alternative Press Music Awards (touch of gloves: MiddleEasy.com) on Monday. “I think it’s so great she walks out to (my song).”

Rousey, the perhaps most well-known female fighter in MMA, uses the classic rock song to walk out from the tunnel into the cage, a fitting tribute to a fighter who has made her career as a cage fighter. She recently posted her fourth UFC title defense and dominated top contender Alexis Davis via a 16-second knockout at UFC 175.

The song is just one way that Rousey embraces her status as the conflictingly most beloved and most hated reputation in UFC. It’s something, she told The New Yorker in an article published this month, she thinks is almost important for fans’ enjoyment of the sport.

“If you’re cheering and the person next to you is booing, you’re going to cheer louder,” she said. “I love that. I love creating conflict within the audience.”

Which isn’t surprisingly that her choice of walk-up songs is something Jett, the original woman to find a lot of success and money by creating her own bad reputation, can certainly appreciate.​

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