The night wasn’t over. Last weekend, WWE presented its annual Royal Rumble event as the Road To WrestleMania 38 began. The event featured the show’s two namesake matches, which decided two of the major title matches at WrestleMania. The women’s edition featured a special surprise with Ronda Rousey making her return to the ring. Now, she is making up for lost time.
As revealed on Twitter, Rousey was in action after this week’s edition of SmackDown went off the air. Rousey teamed with Naomi in a tag match against Charlotte and Natalya, with Rousey defeating Natalya via submission in about ninety seconds. Neither Naomi nor Charlotte ever tagged into the match. Rousey had been on the show to announce that she would challenge Charlotte for the SmackDown Women’s Title at WrestleMania.
Ronda Rousey wrestling in the post #SDLive dark match. pic.twitter.com/qA6TkF2YDZ
— Sean Thurmond (@seanthurmond) February 5, 2022
Rousey tape out Natalya very quick to win the tag match. Neither Naomi or Charlotte ever tagged in. #SDLive pic.twitter.com/60Z2VKRrtV
— Sean Thurmond (@seanthurmond) February 5, 2022
post show dark match 1: naomi and ronda vs charlotte and natalya. charlotte and naomi never even entered. rousey applied the erm bar for a quick tap mount in 90 seconds ?? #smackdown pic.twitter.com/4bTZM0nmsI
— K. Huntington (@k_huntington) February 5, 2022
Opinion: This is one of those things that needs to happen as Rousey is going to require some ring time. She hasn’t been active in the ring for several years now and had only been a regular wrestler for about a year in the first place. A minute and a half isn’t much of a match but at least she got in the ring and could get a bit of timing down. This is what she is going to need to do, or the match at WrestleMania is going to need a lot of smoke and mirrors.
What do you think of Rousey? How will her match with Charlotte go? Let us know in the comments below.
Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen over 60,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 6,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his- Amazon author page with 30 wrestling books
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