What if Cris Cyborg comes to WWE?

#3. A worked MMA style

Rousey and Cyborg may actually be more at home in a worked MMA-style match

Professional wrestling today operates on the premise of athletes working together safely to simulate a combat situation for the entertainment of fans. While different wrestlers work different styles, there are certain central tenets to how wrestlers work that don’t exactly resemble the real world, but are accepted as parts of how sports entertainment functions.

Such rules include bounding off the ropes off of an Irish whip, or the fact that a bump through a table is automatically much more devastating than one on most any other surface.

Wrestlers typically steer clear of trying to work an MMA style, though there are some examples of it working. Samoa Joe and Kurt Angle worked an MMA influenced cafe match in Impact Wrestling for example, and Brock Lesnar has introduced elements of MMA pacing and offense to his matches.

Given Ronda Rousey and Cris Cyborg’s backgrounds, they’d be uniquely equipped to incorporate worked judo, jiu-jitsu, and striking into an offbeat match.