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UFC superstar turned pro-wrestler Ronda Rousey recently spoke with Digital Spy to discuss her time with WWE, where Rousey is a former Raw women’s champion.
The Baddest Woman on the planet opens by saying she does not miss traveling with WWE, even claiming that it would cause her as much physical harm as taking the bumps did.
I love wrestling but I think it was maybe Sarah Rowe (Sarah Logan in WWE) who told me this, she wrestles for free but they pay her to travel. The hardest part I think was just not being able to lay down horizontally, you know. Taking a bunch of hard bumps, your back hurts and you just want to lay down. All I wanted to do between shows is lay down with my legs up and traveling you’re just sitting upright all the time and my back would kill me. So the actual act of traveling I do not miss it all, it was the absolute worse.
Rousey would go to reveal that the bottom vertebrae in her back is actually broken in half, an injury she has been dealing with prior to joining WWE.
My bottom vertebrae in my back is actually broken in half. So that has something to do with it. But travelling on a broken back is the absolute worst. I love being home on my extra firm Tempur-Pedic mattress every night.
Rousey has not appeared for WWE since her loss in the main event of WrestleMania 35. You can find the full interview here.