Why WWE’s ‘Rowdy’ Ronda Rousey and husband UFC fighter Travis Browne swapped showbiz glamour for life on a sustainable California farm
The wrestling bombshell traded the limelight for living a low-key rural life on a ‘sustainable ranch home that radiates love’ in Riverside, California ... but is a comeback on the cards?
Ronda Rousey’s name has become synonymous with body-slams, arm bars and her banging body. But where the heck is she? Rousey hasn’t appeared on WWE TV since that controversial loss to Becky Lynch in a triple-threat match with Charlotte Flair at WrestleMania 35. And that was in April 2019.
Turns out Rowdy Ronda has become Restrained Ronda as she focuses on her farm, raising goats and feeding chickens. Here’s a look inside Rousey’s newly modest lifestyle …
So, why a farm?
When you were once one of the highest paid female athletes why trade it in for feeding chickens and fighting over a TV remote with your man?
Well, Rousey grew up in North Dakota between three and nine years old, and says that living on a farm has always been a dream, as revealed on a 20-minute YouTube video posted on the former fighter’s official account, “A Day in the Life of Ronda Rousey and Travis Browne”, which has attracted nearly two million views at the time of writing.
“A lot of my early memories were being able to run around and go into the back and pick raspberries. I always kind of wanted to be able to give my kids that off-the-grid living experience.”
Who (and what) are on the farm?
Rousey married her boyfriend, Travis Browne, in 2017. Browne has two boys from a previous relationship, Kaleo and Keawe, and they both live on the ranch, called Browsey Acres (get it?). Along with the foursome are goats, a steer, a donkey, a whole bunch of chicken and ducks and three dogs. Her favourite animal? Milly the donkey.