Jon Anik weighs in on the possibility of Ronda Rousey getting an immediate title shot in UFC return: “I didn’t like that Henry Cejudo came back and cut the line”

UFC commentator Jon Anik shouldn’t be a giant fan of the thought of Ronda Rousey getting a right away title shot ought to she return to the Octagon.

Rousey (12-2 MMA) has not competed in MMA since struggling a devastating beatdown by the hands of Amanda Nunes in December of 2016. That setback to ‘The Lioness’ marked Ronda’s second straight defeat, as she was beforehand knocked out chilly by Holly Holm in November of 2015.

Regardless of her six-year plus hiatus from the game of MMA, many followers have puzzled if the brand new UFC-WWE merger may open the door for a ‘Rowdy’ return to the Octagon.

Ronda Rousey has in fact been working with the WWE ever since leaving the UFC. The 36-year-old went on to seize the promotion’s coveted girls’s championship in the summertime of 2018, and at the moment holds the tag staff championships with fellow MMA veteran Shayna Baszler.

Throughout a latest interview with MMAFighting, UFC commentator Jon Anik was requested if he thinks Ronda Rousey ought to obtain a right away title shot ought to she resolve to return to the Octagon.

“In a real meritocracy, that’s not gonna set properly with me nor the athletes which have been donating blood, sweat, and tears to blended martial arts over the past a number of years,” Anik replied (h/t MMANews). “If anybody is worthy of that chance, it’s in all probability Ronda Rousey, and I do imagine that she can be aggressive. She wouldn’t enter that setting with out the assure that she can be aggressive. However I didn’t like that Henry Cejudo got here again and reduce the road of a bunch of 35ers which have been energetic. So, it could be hypocritical of me to say ‘completely’… But when there have been ever a time, it could be completely now.”

Do you assume we may see Ronda Rousey return to the Octagon because of the UFC-WWE merger?