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Ronda Rousey, one of the most media-covered signings of WWE in the last decade, may not return to professional wrestling ring. The former Raw and SmackDown champion would have ended her short career as a wrestler, as she hinted in a recent appearance on The Lapsed Fan Podcast.
"I would say yes, more or less," she said when asked if fans should stop expecting her return. "I joined WWE because I wanted to be able to fight with my girls, you know, the Four Horsewomen, and to be able to fight with my friends. And basically they were 'stringing me along' with that throughout my whole time, never letting me do it. And in the second stage, they kept doing the same. And in the end, it was like: 'I'm out if they don't let me fight Shayna (Baszler)'. And that's how I managed to do it, at least once."
"That's what made me take a step back, because there came a point where I thought: 'they're never going to let me do this as good as it could be', and having to settle for that agreed mediocrity, like in a middle point, was tearing my soul apart. So I couldn't continue with that. I preferred to go and do incredible things in other areas," she explained.
"I'm going to take everything I learned from professional wrestling and apply it to my other passions: in comics, fight choreography, cinema, scriptwriting, and all those things. If anything, it was like taking a sabbatical. Like when you go study something for years and then come back to apply what you learned. That was my wrestling sabbatical," she concluded.
Ronda Rousey has worked for WWE in two different stages. In the first one, from 2018 to 2019, Rousey became one of the most prominent figures in the company, even winning the Raw Women's Championship, which she would lose in the historic main event of WrestleMania 35 against a rapidly rising in popularity Becky Lynch. After that, Ronda left the company to become a mother.
Rousey returned in 2022, winning the women's Royal Rumble match. However, in this second stage, Ronda lost the support of the fans, who ended up turning their backs on her. A situation that made the wrestler uncomfortable. The company then decided to turn her character into a heel and later align her with her close friend Shayna Baszler, whom she would face in her last match in a unique MMA rules fight (SummerSlam 2023).
