Seth Rollins was not surprised by Ronda Rousey's WWE exit.
The former UFC star had two runs with WWE. The first one saw her joining the company as a full-time star in January 2018 and led to the WrestleMania 36 main event the next year. The second run started when she made a surprise return at the 2022 Royal Rumble and ended with her SummerSlam 2023 match with Shayna Baszler. The former Women's Champion has especially been critical of her second run in which she suffered multiple losses and was booked not as strongly.
During a recent interview with Club Shay Shay, Seth Rollins was asked if he was surprised that Ronda Rousey did not stay in the business longer. The Architect replied negatively, noting that at first everything was curated to make Rousey look strong:
No, not at all. It's hard. It's really hard. What they were asking Ronda to do is very difficult. The schedule was crazy still at that time. This is pre-COVID, she comes in. She comes in 2018-17, something like that. And at first, it's very easy. I don't mean this in a negative way, but everything's curated for her, so everything's choreographed, and she has one match every six months or something like that. It gets well-rehearsed and that's fun. You get to do wrestling that way, and that can be really fun, and that can be addicting for people, but that's not really what wrestling is. Wrestling is a bit of a grind.
That Is a Really Hard Thing To Do: Seth Rollins
Seth Rollins explained that in her second run, Ronda Rousey was asked to learn the grind of professional wrestling, which is much harder for anyone not used to it:
It used to be 5 times a week, but that's how you learn your craft, you know, but if you're not used to that and you're coming in... and it's not Ronda's fault. You're coming in and that's how you're presented, and then you have to work backwards, you have to work opposite of the way I did, where I came up doing all that and then I got to do the fun stuff at the end. That's easier because now it's like, 'Oh wow, wait, you're telling me I only have to wrestle 50 times a year? Easy. I used to do 250.' So this is nothing. When you go the other way, that is a really hard thing to do.
The former World Champion also mentioned that Rousey had aspirations to start a family, which is a very difficult thing to do on the WWE schedule.
