Ronda Rousey has opened up about WWE’s scrapped pitch to host a second all-female Evolution pay-per-view in 2019.
It’s been almost six years since WWE hosted its first, and to-date only, all-female pay-per-view event: Evolution. The show was headlined by a first-time-ever match between then-Raw Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey and Nikki Bella in which Rousey emerged victorious.
While Evolution, nor any other all-female WWE events, have taken place since, the former WWE and UFC women’s champion herself has revealed that the company made a pitch to her for a second iteration of Evolution just a few months after the inaugural event.
In an interview with Ring The Belle, Rousey claimed that WWE had pitched a singles match between herself and Becky Lynch at a second Evolution pay-per-view – which would have taken place a few weeks after WrestleMania 35.
However, Rousey turned down the idea as she didn’t want to take more time away from her family after already extending her run with the company by several months. She also added that even if she had accepted, the plan would have fallen through due to her breaking her knuckle while facing Lynch and Charlotte Flair at that year’s WrestleMania.
They offered to bring (Evolution) back for a second time. They said ‘Ronda if you stay after WrestleMania, we’ll have another Evolution in 6 weeks and have you and Becky as a singles.’
I was like, I promised my family that – first, I was always saying I want to go from WrestleMania until Survivor Series, and then Triple H convinced me to stay from WrestleMania to WrestleMania and I promised my family, like, okay that’s it. I have kids and a husband and a home and I’m gone for weeks on end.
So, when they said that I was like, ‘No, I have already asked too much of my family.’ I promised you I would stay this long and I promised them I would only stay this long and I’m not going to keep moving the goalposts. And then I ended up shattering my knuckle anyway, so I wouldn’t have been able to do it regardless but yeah, they tried to dangle that carrot for me but I just couldn’t.
Hopefully, they’ll bring it back and I don’t think that they need me for it. I think they are past that point and they just need to believe in the women because they can do it.
Ronda Rousey Recently Apologised Over Sandy Hook Conspiracy Theory
Back in 2013, Ronda Rousey was widely lambasted for sharing a video branding the tragic Sandy Hook shooting as a conspiracy theory, describing it as “extremely interesting, and must-watch.”
Over a decade later, Rousey took to social media to issue a lengthy apology over what she described as “the single most regrettable decision of her life.” She went on to admit she was “ignorant, self-absorbed and tone-deaf” for sharing the video and feels she deserves to be hated and lose out of any future opportunities over the mistake.
Also in the interview, Ronda Rousey admitted one WWE feud was not thought though.
h/t to F4WOnline