UFC Hall of Famer Ronda Rousey recently fired back at former WWE Women’s Champion Becky Lynch.
Rousey’s response carries a not-so-subtle warning. After ‘The Man’ reflected on getting beaten up by Rousey during their WWE run, Rousey took to Instagram to claim she was actually “very very nice” to her old rival, implying Lynch has no idea how much rougher things could have gotten.
The exchange comes after Lynch’s comments during Stephanie McMahon’s What’s Your Story? Podcast. She had said the physical beating Rousey gave her once made her believe she could survive in MMA. According to Lynch, that confidence did not last long.
“Wrestling her (Ronda Rousey), there was one time when she beat me up and I remember thinking, not because I could fight back, but I was like, ‘Ah, I can take a beating. Maybe I could go into MMA. I think I can take it.’ But then, that lasted one week,” Lynch said.
Ronda Rousey Responds
Rousey was not having it. Responding via on Instagram, the former UFC women’s bantamweight champion brushed off the idea that she had given Lynch her worst.
“Lmao what she doesn’t realize is that I was very very nice to her,” Rousey wrote.
The dig lands with extra weight given the two women’s history. Rousey and Lynch headlined WrestleMania 35 in a triple threat main event, also featuring Charlotte Flair, the first women’s match to close out a WrestleMania. Lynch left that night with both the Raw and SmackDown Women’s Championships.
The contrast in backgrounds is what gives Rousey’s comment its edge. Rousey built a 12-2 professional MMA record across her UFC tenure before transitioning to WWE, while Lynch’s combat sports career has been entirely in professional wrestling.