Ronda Rousey has returned to WWE – and is that this yr’s ladies’s Royal Rumble winner.
The “Baddest Girl on the Planet” was a not-so shock entrant within the match throughout the pay-per-view from The Dome at America’s Middle in St. Louis on Saturday.
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Rousey, 34, won’t probably selected to face SmackDown ladies’s champion Charlotte Aptitude – who she eradicated to win the Royal Rumble – at WrestleMania 38 from AT&T Stadium in Dallas on April 3-4.
Rousey entered the Royal Rumble match at No. 28 to an enormous pop.
However gone was the gear paying homage to “Rowdy Roddy” Piper.
As an alternative Rousey was gown in all again with the phrase “Baddest” throughout her chest in white.
She additionally eradicated each Bella Twins, Shotzi and with an enormous smile teamed up with fellow MMA 4 Horsewomen Shayna Baszler for a bit.
This was Rousey’s first look on WWE tv since she was pinned by Becky Lynch in a triple-treat match with Aptitude at WrestleMania 35 in 2019.
Followers flocked to social media to react to the previous UFC ladies’s bantamweight champion making her return to the fabled squared circle.
Rousey stepped away from WWE to have a child and her and husband Travis Brown welcomed daughter La’akea Makalapuaokalanipo in September.
Discuss of the previous Uncooked ladies’s champion making her return on the Royal Rumble started within the week main as much as the occasion as a number of experiences hinted on the chance.
Fightful reported the WWE was pushing for Rousey, who has resumed coaching, to come back again and it was a matter of if and never when she was again with the corporate.
A WWE official flew to California to fulfill with Rousey every week previous to the Rumble and her make-up artist has been scheduled to be on the Royal Rumble and Uncooked, in response to PWInsider.
The Wrestling Observer reported Saturday that Rousey was again with WWE for a yr and can be an everyday on “Friday Night time SmackDown” and that her versus Aptitude would occur at WrestleMania this yr, saving a conflict with Becky Lynch for subsequent yr in Los Angeles.
This text initially appeared on the New York Put up and has been republished with permission