Ronda Rousey addressed her AEW Revolution cameo and what it could entail for her future in professional wrestling. 

Rousey spent time with WWE on and off between 2017 and 2023, winning multiple Women’s Championships and becoming one of three of the first women’s WrestleMania main eventers, after suffering back-to-back knockout losses to Holly Holm and then Amanda Nunes to seemingly end her MMA career in 2016. 

However, she will be returning to the cage for an MMA comeback against Gina Carano on May 16, and in the build to her fight played a brief cameo alongside best friend Marina Shafir opposite Toni Storm at Revolution. 

“It was really, really fun because I got to be there to support Marina Shafir,” she said when asked about the cameo during the MVP Media Scrum on Wednesday. “It just happened to work out that it was her first pay-per-view match ever. I happened to be in town and I happened to have a fight coming up.”

Rousey said she reached out to Shafir and asked if there was any chance of the cross-over, and the timelines managed to align.

“It just happened to be that I could be there for a huge milestone for her and she goes out and she kills it against Toni Storm. Then I get to walk out and instead of being PG-rated WWE, I get to f*** off all the fans. It’s an incredible feeling, and to do it with my best friend in the whole world.”

She said that she thinks the only thing that could bring her back to pro wrestling were moments like that with her friends. “I don’t think I’ll be making any runs. But I could be making some run-ins,” she concluded.

For more than a decade now, Renee Paquette has been one of the most popular personalities in pro wrestling, thanks to stints in both WWE and AEW as a commentator and interviewer. Paquette has been so natural in her wrestling roles that many have often wondered why she didn’t pursue more avenues outside of the wrestling business. As it turns out, that’s what she did before getting into wrestling.

On the latest of AEW’s “Who is..?” YouTube series, Paquette went through her origin story. Initially, Paquette tried to make as an actress, and even appeared in popular music videos such as Kelly Clarkson’s “Behind These Hazel Eyes,” before getting into hosting. That would then give way to her career in wrestling, and Paquette admitted that it was through that, and continuing to work in the industry, that ultimately led to her falling in love with the business.

“I fell in love with wrestling when I started working in wrestling,” Paquette said. “It was such a different perspective to cover professional wrestling and talk about wrestling on TV. But then, to actually work for a wrestling company and see, like, the belly of the beast, and see the way things worked? 

“I think for me to understand and get that full respect for everybody that works in this industry, from top to tail, I think what’s really made me fall in love with it. Especially since I came from more of, like, an entertainment background. But I played a ton of sports growing up, so to see those two things come together, it’s a match made in heaven for me. I would not want to cover another sport. Like, this is the world that I’m meant to be in, and I love it. But I think it was actually doing it and getting to fall in love with it in real time.”

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