Ronda Rousey on Possibility of Her Having AEW Run in Future

As noted before, former MMA fighter and WWE wrestler Ronda Rousey made a surprise appearance at this past March’s AEW Revolution 2026 in Los Angeles, California. AEW CEO Tony Khan had stated during the post-show media scrum that Rousey is always welcomed back in AEW anytime she wants.

A recent episode of the Up & Adams Show with Kay Adams podcast featured Rousey as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Rousey’s thoughts about the possibility of her having a run in AEW in the future and her reason why that is unlikely to happen for her.

“No. That life of being on the road is probably more time-consuming than doing training camp at home. I had a great time but it just happened to be in town and my best friend (Marina Shafir) was there…”

Rousey also gave her thoughts about why she currently has no plans to fight again in MMA after her fight and quick victory against Gina Carano at Netflix’s MMA event earlier this month. Rousey’s comments were in response to Holly Holm recently being open to a potential MMA rematch with her in the future.

“I said I’m retired, A, and B, I think that I am a completely different fighter now and I would clean her clock and definitely now that I got that new medication. I’ve took it before — I was diagnosed with cortical spreading depression, which was what was happening in my last fights and why I basically was like, ‘I need to stop’ because I thought that my concussions were catching up to me and this was the first fight where I was able to take it, and when I spiked my head into the mat, that’s exactly the kind of thing that would have set me off before and I would have lost big chunks of my vision, and it didn’t come back at all. It ended up working perfectly in a live situation and I was just talking about — yesterday — how I feel like an alchemist where the person goes through everything that they went through and they return a changed person at the end, and I feel like, you know, how many years ago? 10 years ago or whatever the hell it would be, this would be exactly what I would have wanted, more than anything… A chance at coming back and redemption and beating her and feasibly have Amanda Serrano or something after that and have bigger and bigger money fights and all of this fame and all of this money, and right now, it’s completely within my grasp. I’m better than I’ve ever been. I have better coaching than I’ve ever had. I finally don’t have these neurological issues that I had before. But now that I have it all set in front of me, I’ve changed, and the things that I want have changed… Suddenly, these aren’t the most important things in the world to me anymore. It’s these kids, and spending time with them, and I think that’s the journey that I had to go through is I had to get to this point where you could have all of those things that you wanted 10 years ago but you have grown, and you’re a different person now and you don’t want those things anymore, and so, yeah, I think I definitely have the ability and the opportunity to be able to f*cking clean her clock and rewrite all of that. But, it’s no longer important to me anymore. It doesn’t haunt me. It’s not the most important thing in my life and these people’s perceptions and people knowing how great I am and all of this stuff. I know how good I am, and my kids need me in their life, and I wanna be there for them, and this isn’t the most important thing anymore, and of course, the time that I get where I now can go back and do that, I don’t wanna go back. I only wanna go forward.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com 1 & 2