WWE bosses reportedly want Ronda Rousey to get back in the ring and are doing all they can to make it happen.Per Fightful Select, WWE is attempting to persuade Rousey to return to the company for the first time since 2019. Fightful reports that a potential Rousey return has been discussed so much that it is considered a "poorly kept secret" as even some people outside the company are aware of the efforts to lure Rousey back. Fightful also reports that Rousey's name was mentioned as a potential surprise entrant in the 2022 Women's Royal Rumble.
Rousey hasn't been seen on WWE programming since April 2019, when she competed in the main event of WrestleMania 35 with Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair. Becky Lynch won that match, bringing an end to Rousey's 231-day reign as Raw Women's Champion. Lynch believes Rousey wants to return to get her win back."We have a lot of people," Lynch said in an interview with Graham Matthews of Bleacher Report last November. "Then, of course, is Ronda Rousey going to be champing at the bit to get back now that she sees what I've accomplished? Maybe she'd want to accomplish the same, maybe she'll want to get retribution for the loss I gave her at WrestleMania 35. The same loss that's caused me to be champion ever since," Lynch added.
According to Wrestling Inc, Rousey's contract came to an end in April of last year, and since there's been no word of her signing a new deal, she is almost certainly a free agent. Last September, Rousey and her husband Travis Browne welcomed their first child as a couple, La’akea MakalapuaokalanipÅ Browne, to the world. La'akea is the first child Rousey and Browne have had together, and Browne's third child overall as Rousey is a step-mom to two from Browne's previous relationship.