Did Ronda Rousey Pull A Fast One On Fans With That Engagement Ring?

Is Ronda Rousey engaged? That’s the question many people were asking leading up to her appearance on Saturday Night Live. The speculation was all caused by an ad for her hosting gig. Ronda Rousey and Selena Gomez appeared to promote the show, and eagle eyed fans noticed a giant diamond ring on Ronda’s finger. So what’s the deal? (via People.com)

According to a representative for UFC, says Rousey is not engaged. “The rumors are not true,” they tell PEOPLE. “The ring she was wearing was part of the jewelry for her Saturday Night Live promo.”

Ronda Rousey and fellow UFC fighter Travis Browne have been dating since at least August of 2015 and seem to have fallen head over heels for each other. Browne refuses to denigrate their relationship with a word as weak as ‘dating.’

“Dating is for kids,” he said on the MMA Hour in October when they revealed their relationship to the public. “Over the summer, through all the sh*t that I had to shuffle through, that I had to sift through, Ronda and I started talking throughout the summer and I’ll say now that we are together. She’s my woman and I’m her man. There’s no boyfriend, girlfriend stuff. There’s no dating. We’re together.”

Rousey sounds similarly devoted. “Even when everyone thinks the world of me, I still go to bed anxious and freaking out because I’m afraid of everything,” she told ESPN after her defeat in Australia. “The only time I’ve gotten a reprieve from that [feeling] in my life is since I’ve been with him.”

So while the two sound super serious, the ring on Ronda’s hand is not. With the size of the rock and the placement on her ring finger, it comes across in retrospect as the first joke Ronda was telling for her Saturday Night Live gig.

Sometimes it seems like she’s trolling the media with sullen Instagram quotes while modeling in the Caribbean. Was this ring thing just a prank to keep the media guessing about what’s going on in the part of Ronda’s life she refuses to share?