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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 in the course of the pay-per-view from The Dome at America’s Middle in St. Louis on Saturday. Rousey, 34, will now 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 a substitute Rousey was gown in all black 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. The match’s remaining 4 was Rousey, Baszler, Aptitude and Bianca Belair.
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. The previous UFC ladies’s bantamweight champion stepped away from WWE to have a child and her and husband Travis Browne welcomed daughter La’akea Makalapuaokalanipo in September.
“I simply had a child 4 months in the past…. For the reason that day I came upon I used to be pregnant and calculated my due date, I knew I needed to return to the @wwe on the #royalrumble2022,” Rousey wrote on Instagram after the present. “Two weeks, even two months postpartum that aim appeared crazier than ever earlier than. However I simply missed it a lot… and I so badly needed to provide Pō the identical instance that my mother gave to me and my sisters – she by no means broke stride following her desires whereas having us. Now it’s my flip.”
Speak 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 return 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 per week previous to the Rumble and her make-up artist has been scheduled to be on the Royal Rumble and Uncooked, in accordance with PWInsider.
The Wrestling Observer reported Saturday that Rousey was again with WWE for a yr and could be a daily on “Friday Night time SmackDown” and that her versus Aptitude would occur at WrestleMania this yr, saving a possible conflict with Lynch for subsequent yr in Los Angeles.
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