Ex-UFC champ Ronda Rousey poised to join the WWE at ‘Wrestlemania 34’ —report
Ronda Rousey celebrates her victory over Cat Zingano in their UFC women’s bantamweight championship bout during the UFC 184 event at Staples Center on February 28, 2015, in Los Angeles, California. Harry How/Getty Images/AFP
After multiple reports that Ronda Rousey was seen training in the WWE Performance Center circulated earlier this week, it appears that the former UFC Women’s Bantamweight champion is indeed making a shift to professional wrestling.
A longtime wrestling fan, the 30-year-old former Olympian will reportedly be pitted in a 4-on-4 women’s tag team match at WrestleMania 34 next April in New Orleans, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
Rousey will reportedly team up with her “Four Horsewomen” comrades, composed of former mixed martial artists Shayna Baszler, Jessamyn Duke and Marina Shafir.
The group has reportedly started training for wrestling at a school in California, run by WWE superstar Brian Kendrick.
Several big-name personalities have been known to dabble in both the UFC and the WWE—perhaps none bigger than former UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar, who has gone back and forth to both companies on two separate occasions.
Phil Brooks (known as CM Punk) also made his octagon debut at UFC 203 last year.
Meanwhile, UFC President Dana White expressed his belief that Rousey’s career as a professional mixed martial artist is over.
As of this writing, the WWE has yet to confirm the match-up. Khristian Ibarrola /ra
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