A former superstar ruled out a WWE return to focus on motherhood.
Ronda Rousey made an instant impact when she officially joined WWE in 2017 after becoming one of the most successful women’s UFC Champions. She worked for the company till 2023 and gave birth to her first daughter in 2021, followed by a second this year. Although she returned to the squared circle in the past following her firstborn, it looks like that won’t happen again this time around.
On the Untapped podcast, Ronda Rousey put the WWE return rumors to rest by saying she was focusing on being a mother and her recent workouts were just her “reclaiming” her body. She also opened up about how motherhood had impacted her mental and physical well-being:
I am like deep in mom mode. I am not in the studio, you know. I’m working out in my garage, and I’m just trying to reclaim my body from motherhood, you know? You become this like human assembly factory, and you completely like lose your own autonomy. And you literally—like—a baby is like a parasite. It is like sucking the life out of you and just taking over everything.”
The former RAW Women’s Champion’s last WWE match took place at SummerSlam 2023 against Shayna Baszler. She briefly came out of retirement later that year to wrestle at a Lucha VaVoom event, Wrestling Revolver, and ROH.
Former WWE Superstar Ronda Rousey Opens Up About Struggles Of Being A Mother
Despite being The Baddest Woman on the Planet and sharing the octagon and the squared ring against some of the toughest women in sports, she struggles with being a mother.
In the same podcast, the former WWE Superstar shared that she was still trying to reclaim her bodily identity, and a person isn’t ever the same again after giving birth, but they could reinvent themselves into something new:
I’m just, you know, just trying to reclaim myself from this amazing thing that women’s bodies are designed to do. But it really does just like take you over entirely and then when when it’s over, you know, when you’ve been like completely, like sucked out and then there’s the person you’re like left with what’s left over, you’re like, ‘Oh my god, will I ever be the same again?’ The answer is no. But you could, you could be a new something. So I’m just trying to reclaim my bodily identity.”
In other news: Ronda Rousey credited for a historic WrestleMania record.