Ronda Rousey made her return to combat sports earlier this month for MVP MMA, and Nikki Bella has now urged the ex-WWE superstar to keep fighting.
Rousey first appeared in WWE back in 2018, featuring alongside Kurt Angle in a mixed tag-team match against Triple H and Stephanie McMahon.
She went on to cement herself as one of the top women in the company, and has now earned high praise from current WWE female superstar Nikki Bella.
Nikki Bella wants to see Ronda Rousey fight again
Rousey beat Gina Carano after just 17 seconds in her debut bout for Jake Paul’s MVP MMA promotion.
While the fight was incredibly short, Bella still thinks that the ex-UFC champion ‘didn’t miss a beat’ and wants to ‘see her now on more fights’.
Speaking to USA Today Sports, she said: “I think, you know, my initial response [to the fight] was like, wait, it’s done. But the one thing I will say is it left me wanting a lot more from Ronda.
“She looked incredible. I mean, she looked so amazing that I want to see her now on more fights. You know, I’m all about nostalgia. So no matter what it was, I love that those two women got into that octagon and did what they did.
“But I will say the shape that Ronda Rousey’s in, I mean, she’s a year postpartum. That’s incredible. I want to see more from her. I know, you know, as now she’s saying she’s going to have more babies and that was it. But she, even in those 17 seconds, Ronda looked like she didn’t miss a beat.”
Will Ronda Rousey ever return to WWE?
During her time as a wrestler, Rousey became a two-time SmackDown Women’s Champion, one-time Raw Women’s Champion and won the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship once with Shayna Baszler.
She eventually left WWE in 2023 and has been quite outspoken about the company since.
In an interview earlier this month, Rousey expressed her view that ‘women are headlining WWE because of me’.
Elsewhere, while speaking on Bertcast #700 in October 2025, the long-time MMA fighter seemed to all but rule out ever stepping inside the squared circle for TKO’s promotion again.
She said: “Probably not going to be going back. I’m grateful for the experience, but it’s not my circus, not my monkeys.”
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