{"id":137457,"date":"2018-01-29T07:58:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T13:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=137457"},"modified":"2018-01-29T08:33:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T14:33:47","slug":"ronda-rousey-has-ditched-ufc-for-wwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=137457","title":{"rendered":"Ronda Rousey has ditched UFC for WWE."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/rouseyronda1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-92750\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/rouseyronda1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/rouseyronda1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/rouseyronda1-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/rouseyronda1-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/rouseyronda1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(AP) &#8212; Ronda Rousey has ditched UFC for WWE.<\/p>\n<p>Once the most dangerous women in MMA, Rousey officially made the anticipated jump to WWE on Sunday night with a surprise appearance at the Royal Rumble in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>The former UFC bantamweight champion\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/wwe\/story\/_\/id\/22244988\/ronda-rousey-signs-wwe\">also told ESPN<\/a>\u00a0that she&#8217;s fully committed to wrestling and not just planning cameos at WWE&#8217;s biggest events.<\/p>\n<p>She says, &#8220;This is my life now. Yeah, they have first priority on my time for the next several years.\u00a0 This is not a smash and grab, this is not a publicity stunt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rousey appeared to roaring fans Sunday night after the women&#8217;s Royal Rumble in Philadelphia, and pointed to a WrestleMania sign &#8212; scheduled for New Orleans in April &#8212; as Joan Jett&#8217;s &#8220;Bad Reputation&#8221; blared through the arena.<\/p>\n<p>Rousey smiled when Royal Rumble winner Asuka slapped her hand away on an offer for a handshake. Rousey left the ring and walked over to WWE executive and Royal Rumble commentator Stephanie McMahon. Rousey shook hands with McMahon and left without saying a word. She slapped hands with fans at ringside.<\/p>\n<p>Rousey told WWE.com. &#8220;&#8221;This has been a dream of mine since me and all my girlfriends would sit around and watch wrestling together,&#8221; No matter how much I tried to do other things in my life, this kept following me around. It&#8217;s time to take a hint from the universe and go for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) &#8212; Ronda Rousey has ditched UFC for WWE. Once the most dangerous women in MMA, Rousey officially made the anticipated jump to WWE on Sunday night with a surprise appearance at the Royal Rumble in Philadelphia. The former UFC bantamweight champion\u00a0also told ESPN\u00a0that she&#8217;s fully committed to wrestling and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":92750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137457"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137469,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137457\/revisions\/137469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}