10 MMA Fighters Who Became Pro Wrestlers

Though Ronda Rousey's career in the Octagon ended unceremoniously, her impact on the sport of MMA is hard to deny.

After winning a bronze medal in judo at the 2008 Olympics, Rousey found immediate success in cage fighting, winning her first eight professional bouts all by way of first-round armbar. Rousey would defend the UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship a record six times, cementing herself as a sure-fire inductee into the UFC Hall of Fame when she officially calls time on her sporting career.

Unfortunately for Rousey, her run of dominance in MMA would come to a violent end when she was on the wrong side of a pair of knockout losses to Holly Holm and Amanda Nunes that saw her subsequently call time on her MMA career.

Before leaving the UFC, Rousey had already flirted with the idea of competing in pro wrestling as a lifelong fan of the sport. Though she made a brief appearance at WrestleMania 31, the Rowdy one wouldn't make her full in-ring debut with the company until 2018.

Rousey has since gone from strength to strength in her in-ring career, being named the 2018 Rookie of the Year in the Wrestling Observer awards and having a long spell holding the WWE Raw Women's Championship.