Ronda Rousey on Her Wrestling Career Being “Pretty Much” in Her Rearview Mirror

A recent episode of The Lapsed Fan podcast featured former UFC fighter and WWE wrestler Ronda Rousey as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Rousey’s thoughts about the future of her wrestling career and how wrestling is pretty much in her “rearview mirror.”

“Pretty much, I’d say so. I got into WWE because I wanted to be able to wrestle with my girls, you know, the Four Horsewomen and be able to wrestle with my friends. And they kind of dangled that carrot for my whole run and never let it happen.

And then the second run, they kept dangling it. And then by the end, I was like, I’m f*cking leaving unless I can wrestle with Shayna [Baszler]. And that’s how I was able to do it at all.”

Rousey also gave her thoughts about how she views her WWE career as a sort of “sabbatical” where she learned things that she can apply to her current passions in life.

“That’s what made me have to step away, because it got to the point where I’m just like, they’re never going to allow me to make it as good as it can be, and, like, meeting them halfway in this range of mediocrity is like crushing my soul. So I can’t continue to do that. So I’m going to go f*cking be awesome and doing other things.

I’ll take everything that I learned from pro wrestling and apply it elsewhere into my other passions, you know, in comics and fight choreography and in film and screenwriting and all of these things. If anything, it was like I was doing like a sabbatical. When you go off and you study something for years and come back and utilize what you learned, that was my wrestling sabbatical.

I will take everything that I learned from that and apply it to all the other spaces that are bringing me joy.”

Rousey last wrestled in a tag team match with Marina Shafir against Athena & Billie Starkz for Ring of Honor in November of 2023.

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com