Ever since making her debut at WrestleMania 34 last year, former RAW Women’s champion Ronda Rousey has put a much-deserved spotlight on WWE’s women’s division.
Rousey kicked ass and surprised many fans and critics at how well she adapted to pro wrestling so quickly. The former RAW Women’s champion hasn’t been seen since dropping the title at WrestleMania 35, but the former UFC fighter has kept fans up to date with her personal life during her video blog on Youtube.
On a recent episode, Rousey reveals that she was actually supposed to leave the company in November, but she fell in love with the sport and decided to stick around a bit longer (transcript courtesy of wrestletalk.com):
“Originally we approached them, or I approached them, I thought I’d only be able to wrestle from WrestleMania until November because we already wanted to start a family. We came to the WWE as, ‘Hey, before we have a baby, I just want to come do this for a couple of months because it’s something I always wanted to do.’ It just kind of snowballed. Instead of being like a small detour in my life, it became my whole life for an entire year and I completely fell in love with it.
“As time went on, we were kind of playing it by ear, I loved it so much and I ended up getting the title. When it became a real possibility that women could be the main event of WrestleMania if I stuck around, I decided to stick around. We decided that after WrestleMania, me and my amazing husband would go off and start trying to start our family.”
The former RAW Women’s champion also speaks about what’s next for her in terms of the WWE, and makes it clear that having a family is her first priority:
“As for WWE plans in the future, we want to have a baby first. I don’t know what it’s like to have a baby. I could look down at this beautiful child and be like, ‘f–k everything, I don’t care about anything else other than this baby’ and you’ll never see me again. Or I could be like my mom, she trained while she was eight months pregnant and then won the US Open six weeks after giving birth, which was unbelievable. I don’t think I’m going to try and aspire to her level. But I’m just saying, you never know"
“I don’t want to make any promises about the future when I don’t know how I’m gonna feel in the future. So thank you everyone for your support, I had the most amazing time this year! I am also looking forward to a little bit of a rest and some mommy – daddy time.”