Ronda Rousey sat down with Megan Olivi of the UFC in a one-on-one interview that included Rousey calling her year in WWE the "easy version."

"It's physical in a different way; the stress from fighting is much, much more," Rousey said (at the 8:25 mark of the video below, which contains NSFW language). "... The training camp, the weeks leading up to it, the press and going to sleep every night thinking about it, that's the real wear and tear—not the physical part of it.

"With fights you assume, 'OK, I'll give myself at least a month to recover after that.' It's a peaking system, you allow yourself to peak and crash. With WWE, it's just a grind and it's nonstop, and I did the easy version; everybody else does 300 days a year. Their bodies don't get to rest as much as ours in MMA, but their minds get to rest a lot more than we do in MMA, I feel like. There's no pressure on anything."

Rousey, of course, did not work the same number of house shows and other events as the other Superstars in the division. Her quote was not a dig at the other competitors but instead illustrates how hard people in WWE work on a night-in-night-out basis. 

Rousey has not been on WWE television since losing to Becky Lynch at WrestleMania 35 in a Triple Threat match with Charlotte Flair. Her return to WWE is uncertain, though she is under contract with the company through April 10, 2021.

That doesn't necessarily mean Rousey will return, as she's been open about her desire to start a family. Rousey said she's "trying to do the baby thing right now" but said she misses being part of WWE. 

When asked whether main-eventing WrestleMania was a huge career moment, Rousey said it falls a little behind her UFC 157 debut against Liz Carmouche.

"I think it just has to do with the time and the perspective. Me and Liz Carmouche felt bigger to me," Rousey said (at the 11:06 mark). "Even though it was years ago and not as many people watched—it was at the Honda Center which holds maybe 16K-20,000 compared to WrestleMania, where it was in front of maybe 80,000 people and millions watching—I just felt me and Carmouche was the most pivotal moment and everything had to happen that way or women's MMA would have ended before it started.

"With WrestleMania, it just felt like all the stars were aligned and the whole universe was conspiring for us to succeed, and there was not a single doubt in my mind that we would. For Carmouche, there were so many outside factors: the numbers had to do well, I had to win the match, but I had to win the match in an exciting way, and there were so many other factors I had to worry about."

While Rousey's WWE future is uncertain, it's hard to argue that her year with the company was anything but an unmitigated success. She quickly became one of the sport's best in-ring competitors, and though her promos could use work, she helped propel the women's division to the pinnacle of WrestleMania.

It's hard to argue with that level of success.