10 Things We Learned From WWE 24: The Year Of Ronda Rousey

2. Ronda's Importance To Paul Heyman

Prior to making history at the MetLife Stadium, Ronda Rousey is the centre of everybody's attention backstage, being pulled left and right for the Bayley treatment.

In one rather intimate and odd moment, Paul Heyman catches Rousey in a very deep embrace, softly whispering to her, "you changed my life - you changed my perspective on a lot of things." We're never fully privy to precisely which aspects of the Advocate's worldview the MMA star altered, but it's hugely telling of Ronda's influence that she can teach something to someone as experienced and world-wizened as Heyman.

It was also really heartening.