{"id":608483,"date":"2026-04-15T12:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/608483\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T12:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:56:08","slug":"boxer-alycia-baumgardner-says-shes-having-conversations-with-wwe-411mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/608483\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxer Alycia Baumgardner Says She&#8217;s Having Conversations With WWE | 411MANIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boxing star Alycia Baumgardner is open to involvement with WWE, noting that \u201cconversations\u201d are being done about that potentially happening.  Baumgardner appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arielhelwani\/status\/2044112588162904488\" target=\"new\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Ariel Helwani Show<\/a> and during the conversation, she was asked if she had considered doing something with WWE.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, listen, it\u2019s in the works,\u201d Baumgardner said (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\/news\/wwe\/boxing-star-alycia-baumgardner-wwe-crossover-conversations\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">per F4W Online<\/a>). \u201cConversations are being had \u2014 as we speak. Again, I don\u2019t turn no deal down if it makes sense. And when we talk about building a brand, we talk about bigger and better. I\u2019m not just a fighter, I\u2019m not just a boxer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continued, \u201cI think that\u2019s why they [haters] mad, because they\u2019ve got to box. I don\u2019t have to box. I love to box. I choose to box. And, yeah, we\u2019re building something big. We\u2019re building a brand that is made to last.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baumgardner holds the IBF, WBO and WBA female super featherweight championships.  She has a 17-7-1 record in pro boxing.  She told Helwani that she was a big WWE fan growing up and named Trish Stratus and John Cena as stars she was a fan of.  She is friends with current WWE Women\u2019s Champion Jade Cargill, who is defending her title against Rhea Ripley at Wrestlemania 42 this weekend.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Is it only a matter of time before Alycia Baumgardner crosses over into WWE? \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Listen, it\u2019s in the works. Conversations are being had, for real.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not just a fighter. I\u2019m not just a boxer\u2026 That\u2019s why they\u2019re mad\u2014because they have to box. I don\u2019t have to box. I love to box.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ra2p0kaWjl\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ra2p0kaWjl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arielhelwani\/status\/2044112588162904488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boxing star Alycia Baumgardner is open to involvement with WWE, noting that \u201cconversations\u201d are being done about that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-608483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}