While appearing on Monday’s edition of Good Morning America, Ronda Rousey discussed a potential return to WWE.
In her autobiography, Rousey ripped Vince McMahon. She has also knocked Bruce Prichard and John Laruantis. The former WWE star has also been critical of McMahon in interviews to promote the book, but has praised Triple H. Here are the highlights:
On how her loss to Holly Holm changed her:
“I think it just really forced me to confront my own health issues that I’ve been kind of like bearing and avoiding and kinda living in denial of that, you know, when my Judo career, over 10 years, I’ve been experiencing concussion symptoms more often than not, you know, it was back before CTE and all that research was out. And I just got to the point where all the hits I was taking, even though I was having fights that were only a couple of seconds, there’s 50 rounds of sparring that goes into every fight, and it was just starting to take off a toll were like I was just getting every time you get one concussion, the next one’s easier. Next one’s easier. And by the time I was done when I went to WWE, I mean, I was getting the open hand slap from Stephanie McMahon, and like having concussion symptoms afterward. I mean, it was just getting easier and easier and easier to, you know, get hurt, so I just couldn’t be fighting at that top level anymore.”
On what made her leave WWE:
“Well, it’s just not a lifestyle that I can continue while being a mom, you know, I was on the road 18 months with my baby. And it was just nothing that we could sustain forever.”
On whether she would return:
“Not unless things drastically change with how things are run there. And so I highly doubt it.”
If you use any portion of the quotes from this article, please credit Good Morning America with an h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription.
