Author: Jeremy Botter / Source: Bleacher Report
Any celebrities considering a crossover to professional wrestling, take note: When it comes to pro wrestling debuts, there’s a new leader in the clubhouse.
Ronda Rousey grew up a pro wrestling fan.
She used the things she saw on television as inspiration for her rise to the top of mixed martial arts: She took her nickname from “Rowdy” Roddy Piper and used pro wrestling-style promos to carve a place for herself in the sport’s history book. She was, for a time, perhaps the most popular mixed martial artist in the world and one of the more popular in the history of the sport. She was its first true mainstream superstar. And still, she kept on loving wrestling so much that she regularly attended the cult-like Pro Wrestling Guerrilla promotion’s events in Reseda, California.So when her fighting career came to a sudden and violent end, Rousey’s transition to the ring was the natural path.
There was apprehension surrounding Rousey’s tag team match at WrestleMania. She’d had, to put it kindly, mixed results in her Raw appearances leading up to the match. Would her superb athleticism translate over to the scripted stuff? Would she come off as the absolutely terrifying force of nature that she was during her UFC tenure? Or would things just be a little awkward?
Turns out, Ronda might be something of a natural at this pro wrestling thing.
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ROWDY @RondaRousey is PLAYING THE GAME! #WrestleMania https://t.co/1vBO7aiigG
The record books will show that Rousey and partner Kurt Angle beat Triple H and wife Stephanie McMahon in one of the featured events of WrestleMania 34. Lost to history, perhaps, will be just how good Rousey was in her debut. It was her first professional wrestling match, and she was good. Not just passable, and not just good for a celebrity. And her match was the best one on the whole…
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