VIDEO – Ronda Rousey Joins WWE and is Training for Wrestlemania

Ronda Rousey Joining WWE to Perform as Full Time Pro Wrestler

One year away from her last fight as an MMA professional fighter, Ronda Rousey, made a rowdy entrance in the WWE world at the end of the Royal Rumble in Philadelphia. It was the glamorous moment of her long-awaited enrollment as a full-time professional wrestler.

And, just as she declared in a press conference, it appears that this is her life at the moment and wrestling is her first priority. Wanting to assure her fans and, probably, the WWE management, she insisted that she’s focusing on this for the next years and also wanted to make it clear that it’s not a one-time thing, a publicity stunt.

In spite of Rousey’s shocking appearance at the first ever exclusively female Royal Rumble, “Rowdy”, was not billed at the event. Her in-ring debut seems to be scheduled on April 8, in New Orleans, as she herself suggested in Philadelphia, by pointing at the sign of WrestleMania.

The nickname “Rowdy” is her tribute to Roddy Piper and she proudly wore the legendary wrestler’s leather jacket at the Royal Rumble. Rousey’s intentions to join professional wrestling were longtime signaled as she made an in-ring appearance with The Rock and Triple H back in 2015. But she left no doubt of her serious intention to the crowd as she stared down Charlotte Flair, Alexa Bliss and this year Rumble’s winner, the Japanese superstar Asuka, before shaking hands with Stephanie McMahon, WWE executive. She did not make her entrance at the main event of the Royal Rumble, the 30-woman match, but surely her bit right after Asuka’s victory was one moment to remember, making the Japanese wrestling star refuse to shake her hand.

The Asuka win gave her the right to challenge Flair or Bliss at WrestleMania, but Rousey’s insertion in WWE might change the championship equation.

It is well known that Rousey is a long time wrestling fan and last year she had several appearances for the WWE audience. Before the official launch of her personal website, she distributed a video featuring her training inside on a wrestling ring. Likewise, Wrestling Observer Newsletter had previously reported that the former mixed martial arts star is getting trained at the WWE performance Centre in East Orlando. And even though she insisted that she had no WWE deal concluded yet, it was later revealed that she fully committed to professional wrestling. Considering the late events and her last public output she made things clear about her future career. As herself stated on her Instagram account, her road to WrestleMania has begun.

Ronda Jean Rousey changed the MMA world in only four years of activity. After her bronze medal in 2008, the first American woman to won an Olympic medal in judo, she won twelve consecutive MMA fights, eleven of them in the first round. She became an Ultimate Fighting Championship star and she is the last Strikeforce Champion, a truly inspirational women’s bantamweight all-time champion. In her last year as a professional MMA fighter, she was ranked by two magazines as the most “dominant” athlete.

In the last years, she became the best-known MMA woman fighter in the world and a pop culture public figure as her fame expanded beyond the Octagon. Hosting entertainment show such as “Saturday Night Live” and developing an active acting career.

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