{"id":717069,"date":"2026-06-05T15:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/717069\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:48:11","slug":"ronda-rousey-reacts-to-becky-lynchs-mma-career-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/717069\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronda Rousey reacts to Becky Lynch\u2019s MMA career comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former WWE star Ronda Rousey responded to a social media post highlighting Becky Lynch\u2019s comments considering a transition to MMA during their rivalry. <\/p>\n<p>Lynch made the statement during an appearance on Stephanie McMahon\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kk0DxhJqE00\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What\u2019s Your Story? Podcast<\/a>. Rousey responded to an Instagram post highlighting Lynch\u2019s admission after a beatdown during their rivalry. Lynch had added that the thought only lasted for a week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLmao what she doesn\u2019t realize is that I was very very nice to her,\u201d Rousey wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The two were engaged in an intense rivalry featuring Charlotte Flair in 2019 which led to their historic first-ever women\u2019s main event at WrestleMania 35.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rousey arrived in WWE in 2018 at the height of Lynch\u2019s meteoric rise as \u2018The Man\u2019. The two emerged as the company\u2019s top stars and became prominent names across the roster. However, they never feuded in a singles match despite the tension between them in the ring.<\/p>\n<p>They were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\/news\/wwe\/becky-lynch-wwe-survivor-series-card-270081\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">anticipated to clash<\/a> in a non-title champion vs. champion match at Survivor Series in 2018. The bout was scrapped after Lynch suffered a severe concussion and broken nose on the final Raw before the Premium Live Event that year. Although their rivalry continued in the following months, WWE never revisited the initial planned one-on-one encounter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"preferred-source-link\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Google-CTA.jpg\" alt=\"Google Icon\" class=\"google-icon\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\/author\/rosanne\/\" title=\"Rosanne Raphael\" class=\"gms-profile-image\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7f1ddc80e1fbc82020ff4f11b556a4eacbf9593f29d1e850e0aefe09d3cad68a.png\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" alt=\"Rosanne Raphael\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                Rosanne Raphael<\/p>\n<p>Rosanne Raphael is a wrestling writer with over three and a half years of experience covering all things related to the industry. From a kindergarten teacher to PR Associate to turning her lifelong passion for the industry into a career, Rosanne is currently writing for F4W Online where she focuses on wrestling news, analysis, and storytelling. <\/p>\n<p>Rosanne previously contributed to Sportskeeda as an Assistant Content Manager.<\/p>\n<p>When not consumed by wrestling, Rosanne is a musician and an aspiring artist.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\/news\/new-japan\/njpw-best-of-the-super-juniors-finals-set\/?utm_source=navigation-previous&amp;utm_medium=internal\" class=\"gms-prev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previous story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former WWE star Ronda Rousey responded to a social media post highlighting Becky Lynch\u2019s comments considering a transition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-717069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}