Randy Orton, Cody Rhodes, Ronda Rousey, Persephone – Friday’s Wrestling News for April 17th, 2026

Randy Orton

Randy Orton is reportedly “hurting” going into his WrestleMania 42 match with Cody Rhodes. (WO)

In this interview Ronda Rousey talks about her appearance at AEW Revolution: “Shafir goes out and kills it against Toni Storm and then I get to walk out and instead of being PG-rated WWE, I get to go and flick off all the fans booing me – it’s incredible, an incredible feeling. It just happened to work out that it was Shafir’s first pay-per-view ever. And I happened to be in town and happen to have a fight coming up.”

WWE is reportedly interested in signing Persephone. (WO)