Bellator Kickboxing 7 airs tonight on Spike at 11 p.m. ET, but – spoiler alert! – the event already took place Sept. 23, as part of a doubleheader with Bellator 183.

In the main event, Kevin Ross and Domenico Lomurno squared off for the inaugural featherweight title in front of thousands of fans at SAP Center in San Jose, Calif. Which is great and all, but former MMA star Gina Carano wishes it wasn’t being televised on a two-week tape delay.

“This is so awesome for Bellator to put on kickboxing for such a huge stage,” Carano told MMAjunkie on the night of the event. “But I personally think it should’ve been live. This sh*t should’ve been live.”

Carano was on hand to support her fiancée, Ross, as well as MMA fighter Gaston Bolanos, who she trains with. Carano’s hope is that more MMA fans will give kickboxing – and other combat sports that are part of MMA – more of a chance.

“You know what I think? Basically, f*ck chances. F*ck it,” Carano said. “You do something, because you’re passionate about it, because it changed your life, because it made you a better person. And there’s a bunch of jiu-jitsu people and their group of people that make them a better person. We should shine the light on them, and we should also shine the light on these kickboxers and muay Thai people. I get that MMA puts it all together, and it’s its own animal. But there’s this underground thing.”

Carano at one point was the most recognizable women’s MMA star during the late 2000s, putting the now-defunct EliteXC on the map before losing to current UFC women’s featherweight champion Cris Cyborg in a 2009 Strikeforce title fight.

Carano alluded to her in-cage stardom being limited because of a general lack of major exposure for women’s MMA and would like kickboxing stars to not experience the same thing. She’d like them to have the opportunity to show what they’re all about.

“Thank you, Bellator and (president) Scott Coker, for always staying loyal to putting these cards out,” Carano said. “That means the world. But you’re not going to find these people like Kevin Ross and Joe Schilling. You already missed a lot of legends that came before them. You should expose the legends that we have now.”

To hear more from Carano, watch the video above.

And for more on the upcoming Bellator schedule, visit the MMA Rumors section of the site.