Since debuting at the Royal Rumble back in January, Ronda Rousey`s WWE career has been an interesting one to follow. Almost immediately she found herself in a high-profile role at Wrestlemania, followed by title matches against Nia Jax and, at SummerSlam, Alexa Bliss.Given her quick rise in the women`s division, some fans might think this is too much too soon for the UFC Hall of Famer. She knows more about how professional wrestling on the scale of WWE works than you might expect, though. Speaking to GameSpot while promoting her new film, Mile 22, Rousey makes it clear she has an understanding of the business that many fans--and wrestlers, for that matter--have yet to grasp. `[WWE is] definitely much more similar to, I would say, filming a TV show than to being in a fight,` she says. `I think a lot more carries over from fight choreography than actual fighting.`For Rousey, her WWE experience has been a crash course in acting, which she says has helped her become a better performer. Coming into WWE essentially as an outsider has given her unique insight into how the process of being a WWE performer works.`Usually I don`t know what`s going to happen until the day of, maybe an hour or two before I go out there,` she explains. `So they`re like, `Okay, here`s a whole fight scene that you need to memorize right now.` The kind of fight scene that you would spend six weeks or so rehearsing for a movie.`Not only does she have to memorize the choreography she plans to use in the ring, there`s also the camera to worry about. While in UFC, finding the camera doesn`t matter much, but the same cannot be said of WWE.`In WWE, I need to know this is the hard [camera] side,` she says. `If I`m not facing that side, there isn`t already a camera pointed at me. So if I`m doing something that emotionally needs to be registered on my face, I need to hold where I`m at long enough for a handheld person to come over here, and keep my eye on this person, but be aware that this camera came ...
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