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Ronda Rousey spoke with ESPN following her victory last night. In the interview, she mentioned she was finally glad she lost her last two MMA fights because it led her to where she is now.

“Everything really does happen for a reason. I’m just so grateful. I thought I never would be [grateful] for [the losses], but time is a great teacher. I’m just really, really glad I gave it time instead of giving up and feeling it was the end of the world. There are so many people who encounter tragedies who feel like the world and time won’t heal it. But all I can say to those people is: Just give it time, even if you think time can’t heal it. You never know what will happen and where it will lead you. Every missed opportunity is a blessing in disguise. I really believe it now.”

Rousey also revealed to ESPN she thought the WWE fans would boo her when she first debuted. That she has received such a positive response since appears to have touched her.

“I owe the WWE universe an apology because I thought they were going to boo me out of the building from day one,” she said. “They really accepted me from day one. Hopefully, I satisfied a lot of skeptics tonight.”

“I underestimated how kind the WWE universe would be. I thought any outsiders would be shunned. I was expecting to get shunned and to have to battle to be accepted. I worked my ass off to pay respect to what’s so important to them, and hopefully, they saw that tonight. I’m just so grateful, man. I’m trying my best to deserve it.”

Fromage

Apr 9 2018, 10:59:01 AM

So what would you have liked to see with Asuka's streak? For it to go the route that was speculated and for her to win and continue to win all the way til Wrestlemania 35 where she loses to Ronda? An entire year of winning where she cleans out the Smackdown division? What does that serve having her beat everyone on Smackdown? We know she's a badass, that's been established. She already cleaned out the women's roster on NXT. She beat everyone there.

Then okay she was on Raw for 6 months, but look at what she did there. To continue her undefeated streak she was the sole survivor on the survivor series team, she got the fastest women's submission in the women's division, she beat the champ in a non-title match, she won the royal rumble, she beat Nia twice and she won the mixed match challenge. How do they continue that on smackdown and keep it interesting for an entire year?

I don't know if there's ever been a streak that's ended in wrestling that was well done. Goldberg, Rusev, Ryback, Samoa Joe in TNA (although it wasn't so much how he lost but what happened after he lost), Undertaker and Asuka. But it's where we are now. Okay she lost to Charlotte and Charlotte has done a lot. That might make her seem worthy of ending the streak. Would you have preferred a new person to end the streak? Maybe Carmella should have defeated Asuka?