Ronda Rousey Claims WWE Pitched Her Singles Match With Becky Lynch At Evolution 2
Ronda Rousey has revealed that WWE wanted her to have a huge singles match with Becky Lynch, but Rousey had to turn it down.
The first and only WWE PLE event called Evolution took place on October 28, 2018, and it was headlined by Ronda Rousey successfully defending the Raw Women’s Title over Nikki Bella.
That Evolution PLE featured only women’s matches on the card. It was highly regarded by fans with many people thinking it was the best WWE PLE of 2018.
While Rousey beat Nikki in the main event, the match that was arguably the best match was the Last Woman Standing Match as Becky Lynch retained her Smackdown Women’s Title over Charlotte Flair.
There was supposed to be a Rousey-Lynch match at Survivor Series 2018, but a Nia Jax punch broke Lynch’s nose and Flair took Lynch’s place. The Lynch-Rousey singles match also didn’t happen at WrestleMania 35 in 2019 because WWE decided to make it a Lynch-Rousey-Flair triple threat match that ended with Lynch winning the Raw & Smackdown Women’s Titles to become “Becky Two Belts.”
During an interview with Ring The Belle, Ronda Rousey told the story for the first time that WWE pitched her a singles match with Lynch at an Evolution 2 show in 2019, but Rousey turned it down. The company never ended up doing a second Evolution PLE show.
“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.”
Ronda Rousey went on to say that she hopes WWE brings back the Evolution PLE concept some day in the future.
“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.”
Ronda Rousey Issues Apology On Social Media
Earlier this week, Ronda Rousey’s recent Reddit AMA was flooded with questions and comments about her views on the Sandy Hook tragedy. The Sandy Hook tragedy occurred on December 14th, 2012 when a lone gunman entered Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed 26 members of staff and children after murdering his own mother.
The flooding of comments led to Ronda Rousey going on social media to apologize for sharing a video about the Sandy Hook school shooting. The video that Rousey shared was a conspiracy video that claimed the shooting was a hoax. Rousey deleted the retweet/repost at the time, but people remembered that she shared it another statement that could have been related to it.
In the statement made by Rousey, the former WWE Champion & UFC Hall of Famer described sharing the video as “the single most regrettable decision of her life.”