Ronda Rousey experienced a tough UFC exit. Holly Holm and Amanda Nunes blitzed through whatever presumed boxing gameplan Edmond Tarverdyan was attempting, and now Rousey has been enjoying the spoils of the octagon war.
You can see her in the new action thriller, Mile 22, starring The Raid’s (modern classic) Iko Uwais, and probably some other actors too in a flick that was originally centered around Rousey’s character instead of Uwais’.
In the interim, Rousey was kind enough to do a Wired questionnaire; where celebrities respond to the internet’s most searched questions about them.
She’s been pretty candid in general, leading up to Uwais’ new film.
But Rousey’s current dayjob is pro wrestling. I don’t watch it myself, unfortunately. But my Twitter timeline has been kind enough to be fill in the blanks with footage of Rousey throttling security guards, getting insulted, and being sort of called out.
The “big news” now is that we finally get to see Rousey in the WWE video game.
I don’t know much about video games that aren’t the latest Street Fighter, but it looks like every pixelated character, ever, to me. It’s almost like nothing’s changed since the refrigerator bodies of Wayne Gretzky’s 3D hockey.
Nonetheless, it’s a good feeling for Ronda, who is simply happy to be involved in phase two of her career. Speaking with ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne:
“I love this way more than I ever thought I would,” Rousey told ESPN this week as she prepares to face Alexa Bliss for the WWE Raw Women’s Championship at SummerSlam on Sunday at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
”We had a set timeline set, and now we aren’t so sure about it because I love it so much,” she said. “I guess that’s the best thing that could’ve happened, that I would love it so much it would be so hard to stop. I can see why people have a hard time leaving this industry because it’s such a joy to be a part of every day.”
She also had a pretty good analogy for training UFC versus training pro wrestling.
“It’s not like I’m juggling on a unicycle, on a balance beam like over a bed of knives, you know what I mean?” Rousey said. “I’m juggling on a unicycle that’s in a bouncy house. If I fall off, I go boing right back up to the unicycle. It’s fine. I don’t die. I fall off.”
Rousey can be seen in theaters this weekend in Mile 22, and live this August 19, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York for WWE’s SummerSlam.