Ronda Rousey returns to acting, finds television ‘Blindspot’ on NBC

Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey has not officially retired from mixed martial arts (MMA), but she’s already working on her post-fighting career.

That means a return to acting later this spring, according to today’s press release, in season two of the NBC drama “Blindspot.”

Rousey will be playing DEVON PENBERTHY: a female prison inmate who grew up in a working class family from the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and is serving time for transporting weapons across state lines. She is a tough, athletic woman who knows how to fight and handle a weapon.

Devon Penberthy is a dumb name. Not as dumb as Jesse Holland, but pretty fucking close.

Rousey is no stranger to acting, having appeared in major movie roles like Entourage and Fast & Furious 7. I guess losing two straight fights by way of knockout — like this one — is one way to go from film to television.

Either way, it’s the smart thing to do.