It turns out that WWE had plans to do a second Evolution pay-per-view event with Ronda Rousey vs. Becky Lynch headlining the show.
The first event took place on October 28, 2018, at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. The show was headlined by Nikki Bella vs. Rousey. In 2020, it was rumored that WWE would do the second installment of the show. However, that didn’t happen.
At WrestleMania 35, Rousey lost the Raw Women’s Title to Lynch in a triple threat match that also featured Charlotte Flair before taking time off. She returned to the company in 2022 with the idea of getting the long-awaited singles match with Lynch, although that never happened.
While appearing on Ring The Belle, Rousey revealed that she turned down singles match with Becky Lynch in late 2019 at Evolution 2. WWE nixed plans to hold the event altogether and hasn’t held another one since 2018.
Rousey said, “Well, they offered to bring it back for a second time. They said, ‘Ronda, if you stay after WrestleMania, we’ll have another Evolution in 6 weeks and have you and Becky as a singles,’ and I was like, ‘I promised my family’…I was always saying, ‘Oh, I want to go from WrestleMania until Survivor Series,’ and then Triple H convinced me to stay from WrestleMania to WrestleMania, and I promised my family like, ‘That’s it.’ I got kids and a husband and a home, and this is like I’m gone for weeks on end, and so when they said that, I was like, ‘No, I’ve already asked too much of my family. I can’t ask any more of them. I promised them this. I promised you I would stay this long, and I promised them I would only stay this long, and I’m not going to keep moving the goalpost,’ and then I ended up shattering my knuckle anyway, which I got an extra little nug now, so I wouldn’t have been able to do it regardless. But, yeah, they tried to dangle that carrot for me, but I couldn’t. Hopefully, they’ll bring it back. I don’t think that they need me for it. I think that they’re past that point. They just need to believe in the women because they can do it and know that that event was incredible and it sold out the venue, and I feel like there should be more but no one’s asking me…… then they came back, and they’re like, ‘Yeah, we’ll get to we get to it. Never mind,’ and I was like, ‘I’m going to go tag with Shayna [Baszler], or I want to leave,’ and then that’s the only time I got to do my own booking.”
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