Ronda Rousey Comments On What She Learned From Her Time In Wrestling

In an interview with AIPT Comics (via Fightful), Ronda Rousey was asked what she learned during her time in wrestling that she brought into her first graphic novel. She will release Expect the Unexpected on October 7.

Rousey said: “That’s something I learned from WWE, there isn’t always one tone to the fights. Sometimes there is comic relief and other things going on. In the choreography, I really like to mix that extreme realism of MMA, but the huge set pieces of movies, and a lot of the storytelling within the fight itself that you see in pro wrestling. A lot of times in film, you’ll see, ‘Let’s take a break from the story to have this quick fight scene.’ In pro wrestling, I feel it’s the purest form of fight choreography in that you have to tell the story in the fight itself. I really wanted to utilize that. Use the fights as a storytelling vehicle to reveal character, but also have the action in the fights to have a sense of realism that you don’t see so much in pro wrestling or movies.”

Here’s a synopsis of the graphic novel: Her codename: “Mom.” With a fake baby bump filled with guns, she’s built a reputation as one of the deadliest hit-women on the planet. But on the verge of her big break in the criminal underworld, Mom makes a fateful decision: sleeping with a potential target (who just so happens to be a top-ranked assassin himself). What follows is a wild mashup of action, adventure, comedy, and romance as a newly pregnant Mom with a bounty on her head fights off wave-after-wave of assassins, falls in love with her baby daddy, and decides how to face her personal and professional predicament.