Ronda Rousey Rips 'S--t Show' WWE and Doesn't 'Intend' to Return Following UFC Rumors

Ronda Rousey took a shot at WWE on Wednesday during an interview to promote her upcoming memoir entitled Our Fight.

Speaking on Never Before Told (h/t Steve Carrier of Ringside News), the 37-year-old ripped the backstage environment in WWE and said she doesn't plan on returning to the company:

"How much of an absolute s--t show it is at the WWE because they can't hold the story over my head and hold me hostage with my own career.

"I don't need anything from them and I don't intend on going back, so I can say everything that I think and feel while everybody else is still held captive by their organization."

Rousey first rose to prominence as a bronze medalist in judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics before breaking into MMA and becoming the first UFC women's bantamweight champion and the biggest female star in UFC history.

Following back-to-back losses in 2015 and 2016, though, she changed career paths and made the move to pro wrestling, pursuing one of her longtime passions.

Rousey made her debut as an official member of the WWE roster at the 2018 Royal Rumble and had her debut match a few months later at WrestleMania 34, kicking off one of the most meteoric rises in the company's history.

She went on to become a two-time SmackDown women's champion, one-time Raw women's champion, one-time WWE women's tag team champion and one-time women's Royal Rumble winner, plus she was part of the first women's match to main-event WrestleMania, facing Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair in a Triple Threat at WrestleMania 35.

After taking a break to start a family and have her first child, Rousey returned to WWE in early 2022 and remained with the company through the summer of 2023.

Her last match was against longtime friend Shayna Baszler at SummerSlam 2023 last August, with The Queen of Spades coming out on top.

Shortly after her loss to Baszler, Sadie Whitelocks of DailyMail.com reported that she had spoken to someone close to Rousey who told her she wanted to return to UFC and fight at UFC 300 on April 13.

It doesn't appear as though a fight at UFC 300 is going to happen for her, though, and she has given no public indication that she plans to return to MMA, either.

UFC and WWE are now under the same umbrella, as they merged to form a company called TKO, so a return to either promotion could be somewhat awkward given Rousey's comments.

Of course, there is a long history in WWE of welcoming back wrestlers who left on far worse terms than Rousey, so if the multi-time women's champion changes her stance and does want to return at some point, the company would likely be open to it.

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