Hello there, my very good friends, on this wrestling news video, we've got the real reason AW signed Rhonda Rousey,

notes on WW's booking of Randy Orton, Britt Baker on her non-appearance Revolution,

and a wrestler who missed out on AW Revolution at the very last minute.

I'm Andy H. Murray, the H stands for hell kind of time of day is this to be doing a wrestling

news video, but the story's out there, so let's talk about them. The first one we're going to discuss

here is Rhonda Rousey. So she debuted on last night's AEW Revolution 2026 pay per view.

Huge surprise, we spoke a little bit about the impact of it and everything else on the morning

video.

So you can check that out there.

But Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio has offered just a little bit of insight into why the former WW and UFC star is in AW in the first place.

And what he says is not exactly mind-blowing or anything along those lines, but it does make sense

and it does align with why you would use Ronda Rousey in Big 26. Here's what Dave had to say

on Observer Radio. It's good for them, A.W, to have a strategic alliance with her, because in the

real world, whether wrestling fans like her or not, in the real world,

her name carries a lot of weights. If you don't think so, ticket sales for the fight answer

your question about is she a draw? She's a draw right now, and even if she wasn't, with TV

executives, her name carries a lot of weight. So he is, of course, referring to the upcoming

MMA fights between Ronda Rousey

and Gina Carrano. Two people who haven't bought MMA in freaking ages. Gina more so than Ronda,

who was in the UFC a bit more recently than Gina was in Strike Force, which doesn't even exist

anymore. So that gives you an impression of how long it's been. But yeah, he's talking about the

ticket sales to that fight which have seemingly been strong. It's in May,

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