Tearful Ronda Rousey: ‘I Can’t Wrestle Forever Because I Feel Like I’m Failing My Family’

Ronda Rousey took part in a special Thanksgiving fan Q&A via her official YouTube channel. The RAW Women’s Champion was reflective and emotional, as she returned home from a busy WWE schedule to spend time with her family over the Thanksgiving holiday.

On Whether She Needs To Use A Weapon If She Sees Charlotte Flair Again:

I don’t need to use a weapon. I firmly believe that I am a weapon. It was my mistake not being prepared for something like that. I thought I had some understanding for who Charlotte is and that’s the kind of thing I’d expect from Becky [Lynch], not from Charlotte. I guess I should have been expecting it from anyone. That’s my mistake. Being the best and keeping your morals is like putting something already difficult on expert mode, but I don’t want to have my championship reign be on easy mode. I want to be champion on expert mode and if everybody else gets to have advantages like weapons or any unscrupulous tactics that they can think of, I believe I just need to be good enough to beat them with those things. My entire athletic career, I’ve had to deal with people using performance enhancing drugs when I wasn’t and it’s just more difficult to stick to your morals, but it’s worth it, but I can beat anyone with any weapon. I know I can and now I need to be prepared for it.

Will The Recent Flair/Lynch Attacks Lead To A More Violent Version Of Ronda Rousey?:

I don’t believe in using weapons or ambushing people because I think that’s a way of admitting to everyone that you’re not good enough to beat them without those things and I’m too proud to resort to weapons or resort to attacking someone behind their back because I don’t need those things. I need to be so good that I don’t need to cheat and I don’t need to surprise people or ambush them from behind. I pride myself in you know I’m coming for weeks. You know what I’m going to do. You do everything you can to prepare for it; I’m gonna do it anyway. That helps me sleep at night, not having to attack somebody with their pants down in the locker room or attack somebody with a stick when they’re not looking. Those tactics are just their way of admitting they’re not good enough to beat me and I will never admit that I’m not good enough to beat them, so I will never resort to those kinds of means of trying to win. It’s just so meaningless. I wouldn’t get any self respect from that. I wouldn’t be proud of myself for that. I wouldn’t feel any better about myself. I wouldn’t feel like I am the best. I would feel like I’m an ass*ole. That does nothing for me…. I don’t need a weapon. I’ve been training my whole life to make myself a weapon. I’m the most dangerous unarmed woman on the planet. I don’t need anything. I just need myself.

On What It’s Like To Return Home After A Busy Schedule:

[Visibly emotional, Rousey cries] When I came back from RAW the other night…[Rousey recounts feeding her goat when he was small and missing his passing due to her being on the road]. I fuc*ing love that goat. He was my little baby… Sometimes I feel like I can’t do it all. I have to pick one thing. I can’t wrestle forever because I feel like I’m failing my family….It’s rough. I wouldn’t be leaving home unless it was to do the most fantastic things ever and I really really do enjoy it and love it, but all that energy I spend on the WWE is energy I don’t spend on my family.

(Transcription: Michael McClead, WrestleZone)

Readers may watch the two part Q&A below:

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