WWE RAW: Ronda Rousey lifts lid on legendary Royal Rumble debut ahead of WrestleMania 34
Rousey shocked the world when she switched the UFC Octagon for wrestling’s squared circle. ‘Rowdy’ made her first ever WWE appearance after the inaugural women’s Royal Rumble match and confronted the 30-women over-the-top-rope battle royal winner Asuka, RAW Women’s Champion Alexa Bliss, Smackdown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair and on-screen RAW Commissioner Stephanie McMahon. However, the whole process of bringing her to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from Colombia, where she was shooting the movie Mile 22, was extremely difficult. She told the Daily Mirror: “Well getting there was quite an experience itself, in the age of social media and cellphones it's really hard to smuggle yourself into the country unnoticed. That was an experience in itself.
WWE Admin Ronda Rousey made a shocking debut at the Royal Rumble
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Well getting there was quite an experience itself Ronda Rousey
“I started calling myself Rapunzel after a while, because once they snuck me from Colombia to Miami, they put me in a private plane which took me to Pittsburgh, then took me to a car, then to the back of a hotel, then they had to block off the elevators and room service had to go past a security room, so room service wouldn't even see me. “A car took me from the back of the hotel to meet me at a rendezvous point to take me to a bus, the bus then drove me to under the arena, and then I had to sit on a bus for seven hours. “It was quite the covert operation and I can't believe we even pulled it off, I really can't. “It was really funny to see people go from 'she's totally going to be there' to 'she's not going at all' and then 'we knew she was going to be there’.
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