Former WWE Raw Women’s champion Ronda Rousey who is also the winner of this year’s women’s Royal Rumble match recently talked about her mind set about her return to WWE and she also revealed what Paul Heyman and Vince McMahon and told him after she made her return.
Ronda Rousey had been one of the biggest names in the MMA and achieved a lot as well. It was a huge deal when she came to WWE for the first time. Fans were really excited to see a wrestler of such calibre joining the world of professional wrestling. In a very short amount of time she became quite successful in WWE as well.
Ronda Rousey Reflects On Her Mindset About Her Return
She won the WWE Raw Women’s championship and she remained undefeated till WrestleMania 35. She dropped the title to Becky Lynch at the event and after that she remained out of WWE for three years. Fans were eagerly waiting to see him back in professional wrestling once again. But she have to deal with a lot of things including injuries and pregnancy which kept her away from action for 3 years.
She finally made her return during the women’s Royal Rumble match of 2022 and she won the match get the main event of Wrestlemania. She decided to challenge Charlotte Flair for the WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship at WrestleMania 38. It is quite unfortunate that she lost the match but she would be challenging Charlotte in an I Quit match at WrestleMania Backlash.
Ronda Rousey who is also the winner of this year’s women’s Royal Rumble match recently spoke on her “Ronda On The Road” series on YouTube where she talked about her mind set about her return to WWE and she also revealed what Paul Heyman and Vince McMahon and told him after she made her return. Ronda Rousey said;
“I really missed wrestling, I did. And I wanted to come back. I knew I was coming back, or I thought I did, to the animosity that I left,” Rousey said. “So I came out feeling super defensive from the beginning. At the Rumble, it wasn’t like that — but I just assumed the reaction was from the surprise.
“So coming out to Raw and Becky was gonna be there, I was like, ‘Okay, this is when they’re going to troll on me the most. This is when they’re going to try and like chant ‘Becky’ every single time I open my mouth. This is the time they’re going to start like screaming the most hurtful things they can.
“This is when they’re going to start bringing the posters that say the most hurtful things they can think of. And so I came out anticipating that. I mean, everything went fine. Of course, there was like those three or four guys on the floor that were just like screaming as I was talking. And I really just had to concentrate to like block them out.
“I got through it and I came out and Heyman was like, ‘You did great, but I’m going to tell you, he’s going to tell you one thing, he’s going to tell you to smile.’ I’m like, okay. So I went and talked to Vince,” she recalled. “He was like, ‘That was fantastic. Just — you need to smile.’ I was telling him like, ‘You know, they were booing me on the way out of every stadium.’
“He’s like, ‘Yeah, but they’ve forgiven you for that.’ I’m like, ‘Well, I haven’t forgiven them.’ And he goes, ‘But it’s not about you. It’s about them.’ It was like such a good point that I’d been thinking about myself and how this relates to myself, and I was forgetting that this is a show about entertaining them.
“I feel like I got the jitters out. I got my first performance out of the way. I got my first promo out of the way,” she said. “So going into SmackDown next Friday, I’m like okay — I’m not going to come out all guarded and defensive. I’m just going to go out and like actually feel the crowd and let them be a part of it.”
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