Ronda Rousey recalls surprise pro wrestling appearances after WWE, talks whether she'll return to that world

Ronda Rousey is simply a fable successful combat sports, helping to usher successful a caller epoch successful mixed martial arts successful UFC and women’s wrestling with WWE.

Rousey’s lack from pro wrestling was overmuch shorter than her determination to instrumentality to an MMA cage. She departed WWE successful October 2023 pursuing a rivalry with Shayna Baszler. It was lone 2 weeks aft she near the institution that she showed up connected the autarkic scene.

"The Baddest Woman connected the Planet" was each of a abrupt appearing astatine Lucha VaVoom and Pro Wrestling Revolve earlier making an quality with Ring of Honor. She told Fox News Digital that she wanted to enactment with her friend, Marina Shafir.

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Ronda Rousey holds a trophy onstage aft becoming the archetypal pistillate inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame astatine The Pearl performance theatre astatine Palms Casino Resort successful Las Vegas, Nev., connected July 5, 2018. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

"By the clip I was out, I was like, I would inactive emotion to enactment with Marina due to the fact that Marina was inactive progressive and we were trying to fig out, ‘Oh, erstwhile you were successful town, possibly we tin fig thing out.’ And I conscionable had a short, small model for immoderate crushed to beryllium capable to bash it. We were trying to get large again," she said. "We were going to commencement IVF aboriginal successful the year.

"We couldn’t truly find thing that worked out. So, we reached retired to Pro Wrestling Revolver and were similar let’s bash a foundation amusement to rise wealth for the Lahaina wildfire survivors. So, that’s benignant of however that each came about. There was besides a Lucha VaVoom amusement we were besides capable to clang successful the meantime."

Rousey performed astatine Pro Wrestling Revolver and past stepped backmost into the shadows – that was until this past March.

She was successful the midst of grooming campy for her instrumentality MMA lucifer against Gina Carano erstwhile she showed up astatine the Crypto.com Arena to face "Timeless" Toni Storm pursuing her lucifer with Shafir astatine All Elite Wrestling’s (AEW) Revolution pay-per-view successful March.

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While she received questions astir doing a lucifer astatine the time, she said determination was nary mode she was going to bash it due to the fact that she had to absorption connected the Carano fight.

"So, then, we got to bash the Revolver amusement and that was awesome and past this past run-in with AEW," Rousey said. "I didn’t get to bash thing astatine each due to the fact that I was successful grooming campy and each these radical we’re like, ‘Oh, is Ronda gonna bash a match?’ I’m like, I’m successful grooming camp. You guys are crazy. I’m not going to beryllium doing immoderate matches portion successful grooming camp. … I emotion Toni Storm, I emotion Marina and it was amusive to beryllium determination for Marina’s archetypal pay-per-view lucifer arsenic well. I didn’t privation to instrumentality distant from their infinitesimal but possibly enactment a small spot of a spotlight connected it and a small spot of a nudge to my upcoming fight."

Now, Rousey’s quality with AEW coincided with Storm being attacked during an AEW storyline connected the adjacent occurrence of "Dynamite" pursuing Revolution.

Fox News Digital asked Rousey whether she was the 1 who attacked Storm.

"Oh, I wasn’t acceptable for that question … adjacent question, adjacent question," she said, jokingly clearing her throat.

However, Rousey made wide that getting progressive successful pro wrestling afloat clip oregon adjacent portion clip would beryllium a large endeavor that wasn’t conducive to what she wanted to bash with her beingness moving forward.

"I think, just, we’re trying to person different kid present and each this stuff," Rousey said. "That lifestyle, being connected the roadworthy and wrestling, it’s conscionable not conducive astatine each to having aggregate kids.

"We were capable to marque it enactment for a small while. It’s conscionable not doable anymore. I could beryllium unfastened to doing immoderate things if it works retired and it’s local. We’re looking to determination to Hawaii and it would beryllium kinda chill to unfastened a small school."

Ronda Rousey looks connected earlier her featherweight bout against Gina Carano during the main paper of Netflix's Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano astatine Intuit Dome successful Inglewood, California, connected May 16, 2026. (Sarah Stier/Getty Images for Netflix)

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Rousey proved to beryllium 1 of the top mixed martial artists erstwhile she rapidly defeated Carano successful a imagination bout earlier this month.

Days later, she added different accolade to her awesome resume. She partnered with Castrol to go the lipid company’s caller marque ambassador.

"I’m the champion astatine what I bash and I wouldn’t privation to spouse with anybody unless they’re the champion astatine what they do. Luckily, Castrol is," Rousey said, adding that shooting the commercialized for the institution was "really fun" and a high-quality experience.

Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano airs for a photograph aft their featherweight bout during the main paper of Netflix's Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano astatine Intuit Dome successful Inglewood, Calif., connected May 16, 2026. (Sarah Stier/Getty Images for Netflix)

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The run volition person Rousey highlighting "Castrol EDGE Extended Performance’s proven quality to execute successful 7 captious areas – pressure, power, substance economy, high-temperature performance, cleanliness, deterioration protection, and endurance," according to a quality release.