Before Marrying Travis Browne, Ronda Rousey Confessed Love to WWE Superstar in 2014: “First Thing I Said Was I Love You”

For the audience, seeing their favorite MMA fighters’ sly side would be a very different spectacle. When the audience first saw the sweet side of the gruff Ronda Rousey, they were in awe. The world has seen the fierce warrior she is, but not her charming, endearing side. She was all smiles and speechless when the press questioned her about what it was like to finally meet her longtime crush.

In a relatively old interview, Rousey was questioned by one of the journalists about her thoughts after meeting a certain 2 time WWE champ. The bantamweight champion frankly said that she couldn’t keep her excitement in check.

Ronda Rousey was “starstrucked” by CM Punk

Rousey said, “I was totally a dork and starstrucked too. I wasn’t like Harrison Ford dorky starstrucked but I was like right under that a little bit because first I didn’t really recognize like, I was like [speechless]. I didn’t have anything to say except for like,”

She then revealed the first thing she said to the ‘Cookie Master‘ after seeing him, “I think the first thing I said to him was ‘I love you’, which is terrible and not smooth. It’s not smooth at all. But whatever, he was super cool.”

‘The Arm Collector’ then opened up about the distance between the two when the media inquired further about whether she would be able to train with him. Punk was living in Chicago at the time, and Rousey was in Los Angeles. They couldn’t train together because of the distance.

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Although she mentioned that she was glad that they attend the same gym together whenever he was in town.

Ronda Rousey’s life outside the ring

 When Ronda competed in the UFC, she was one of the toughest competitors. She gained fame for her outstanding performance in the first female fight in the UFC. ‘Rowdy’ was the first female bantamweight champion in history. Her personal life was just as tumultuous as her wrestling career. It was revealed that she dated Brendan Schaub when her MMA career was just getting started. Rousey was later linked to American wrestler Travis Browne shortly after she admitted she loved CM Punk.

Even Browne‘s wife, Jenna Renee Webb, accused ‘The Arm Collector’ of having an affair with her husband. The marriage didn’t last long, and in October 2015, Browne publicly announced their relationship. The fighter duo tied the knot on August 28, 2017, and a girl was born to them in 2021. Following Ronda’s love confession, Punk, too, found the love of his life in AJ Lee, and they got married in 2014.

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