Ronda Rousey has no plans to return to WWE however she should discover future matches in skilled wrestling beneath the fitting circumstances.
The previous UFC champion, who grew to become a famous person in WWE after her combating profession was over, closed the chapter on her e book with the promotion after her most up-to-date contract expired and he or she ended up at odds with WWE govt Bruce Prichard. Within the aftermath of her exit from WWE, Rousey appeared at an unbiased wrestling present in southern California, which donated proceeds to assist the victims of the tragic fires in Lahaina, Hawaii.
Because of her historical past with concussions and plans to broaden her household with husband Travis Browne, Rousey doesn’t count on that she’ll ever return to professional wrestling on a full-time foundation once more however she’s positively open to alternatives just like the one she had this previous November after leaving WWE.
“I really feel like that’s the one manner I’d actually wish to wrestle for proper now,” Rousey stated at a Q&A selling her autobiography Our Battle. “We’re making an attempt to have one other child proper now so I’m making an attempt concentrate on household and stuff. If we’ve got one other child and I come again, I’d in all probability simply wish to do native indie reveals simply in order that I can get along with my buddies and put collectively a match and put together as a lot as we would like and do all of the strikes that we would like and do it for so long as we would like and never should work with all these restrictions and stress and opinions and stuff like that. To have the ability to showcase these skills that aren’t getting the sort of highlight that they deserve.
“That Professional Wrestling Revolver present, we received to do as a fundraiser for the Lahaina hearth victims or survivors. That might be extra of the stuff that I’d love to do, the smaller extra intimate crowds.”
Ideally, Rousey says she want to have extra management over her matches so far as performing sure strikes or having time to develop a narrative with an opponent that in all probability wouldn’t match within the time restraints required by organizations like WWE.
“It simply looks like extra of a great time than one thing the place I couldn’t have that sort of enter or say in what was happening,” Rousey stated.
Whereas there will surely be no scarcity of choices for Rousey if she returns to professional wrestling, one promotion that welcomes the possibility to work together with her is Bloodsport — the group owned and operated by former UFC heavyweight champion Josh Barnett.
Barnett’s model of professional wrestling is totally different from what occurs in organizations like WWE and he’s been in a position to function plenty of excessive profile fighters on his reveals over the 12 months.
The truth is his subsequent card slated for June 22 in Japan options ex-UFC champion Quinton” Rampage” Jackson and UFC Corridor of Famer Kazushi Sakuraba in matches alongside Barnett in the primary occasion in opposition to present AEW star Jon Moxley.
Barnett additionally featured his longtime scholar and former UFC fighter Shayna Baszler on considered one of his latest reveals so he is aware of Rousey would match proper in at Bloodsport.
“We all know one another so if that was one thing that was an itch she wished to scratch, she is aware of methods to come up with me,” Barnett informed MMA Combating. “She’s received lots on her plate already. She’s a mother. She’s part of the entire Browsey Acres and the whole lot that they’re doing on the market. The product is unbelievable. After we’re on the distillery and we’re doing a barbecue and getting collectively, we all the time order stuff straight from Travis and we prepare dinner all their stuff. I’ve received it in my freezer so I again what they do in that regard.
“Ronda, she’s performed a ton of stuff. If she wished to get again into professional wrestling, she wished to do some one-off stuff, I couldn’t consider anyplace higher to permit her to be her at her utmost than our enviornment. You by no means know. To my information, it’s not for the time being, not on her thoughts, in all probability not on her radar.”
Past his relationship with Baszler, Barnett has additionally featured Marina Shafir on previous Bloodsport reveals and he or she stays considered one of Rousey’s closest buddies. The truth is, Shafir carried out with Rousey on that unbiased wrestling card this previous November so Barnett looks like it might be an ideal match if the previous UFC ladies’s bantamweight champion ever wished to carry out once more.
“It could be the best place to fit her right into a present in any case,” Barnett stated. “With Marina [Shafir] being such an everyday with our reveals, you can simply see one exhibiting up for those who noticed the opposite.”
