She had a groundbreaking Hall of Fame career in the UFC, proving that women can be just as powerful as men in combat sports.
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In her further sporting career with WWE, Ronda Rousey’s global reputation made her a crucial piece of the puzzle in a “Women’s Revolution”, which culminated in the historic first women’s WrestleMania main fight in 2019. (NEWS: All news about WWE)
Last summer, the former judo fighter (Olympic bronze medalist in London 2012) left WWE, ending her second engagement, which will be remembered as a misunderstanding.
She has now clearly underlined the fact that Rousey wasn’t happy with the show fight empire recently – in a reckoning that was tough.
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Ronda Rousey with sharp attacks on former WWE leadership
On April 2nd – shortly before this year’s WrestleMania – a new, autobiographical book by Rousey called “Our Fight” will be published. In various excerpts that were made public in advance and several interviews with which Rousey promotes the memoir, Rousey sharply attacks the league’s former leaders, especially former boss Vince McMahon, who was ousted at the beginning of the year over rape and sex trafficking allegations.
But Rousey also paints a negative picture of WWE beyond that. She is of the opinion that the issue of equal rights in doctoral studies has still not made enough progress.
SPORT1 summarizes the central points of Rousey’s criticism.
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– Vince McMahon:
In a mix of historical summary and subjective assessment, Rousey compares McMahon in her book to Emperor Palpatine, the main villain from Star Wars: “It is sometimes difficult to distinguish where his role as the evil, unethical slimeball that he played in front of the cameras ended and where his real-life, ethically questionable, oft-sued and accused of sexual misconduct character began. The blurred lines between role and reality are a recurring theme in the WWE world.”
Rousey is convinced that McMahon has a misogynistic worldview. With regard to the WWE partnership with Saudi Arabia, she also writes, among other things, “that the rights of women there are just as limited as Vince McMahon would want them to be Im sure”.
Even more sharply than McMahon, Rousey attacks his long-time confidants Bruce Prichard and John Laurinaitis – against whom ex-employee Janel Grant has also made rape and sex trafficking allegations.
In a video with her sister and co-author Maria Burns Ortiz, Rousey added that she could “say a lot more sh*t” about the two of them and that they should “f**k each other.”
– Lack of equality:
When it comes to the role of women in WWE, Rousey accuses the league of whitewashing both the past and the present.
“WWE likes to broadcast beautifully produced video segments about the legacy of their women,” she writes, but in fact they “were just footnotes for a long time” who took on “sexually charged supporting roles” in the men’s world.
The conditions behind the scenes obviously corresponded to this, there was numerous public evidence of a “casting couch culture in which powerful men pressured women into sexual favors in return for TV appearances, just as in mainstream entertainment.”
Under pressure from fans, there has been significant progress in recent years, but the women in WWE are still fighting a tough battle against a “sexist and patriarchal culture”: “I have nothing but respect for the wrestlers who are the women of today have paved the way. And nothing but disgust for the sexist, demeaning bullshit they had to endure.”
– Why Rousey left WWE:
In an interview with the portal Cageside Seats, Rousey explained that both her anger at McMahon and the ongoing lack of equality played a role in her departure.
Completely different resources are still invested in men’s programs than in those of male stars like Roman Reigns or Logan Paul. She herself noticed that a lot of effort had been put into her initial stories, but in the end “they stopped talking to me before I entered the arena. About nothing.”
She gradually got the feeling that she was just “an action figure for a damn sick guy (‘f**king sicko’) in the background” – Vince McMahon.
A turning point was the realization that WWE had quietly and secretly canceled her single match against Becky Lynch, which had been planned for WrestleMania 2022. When she found out about this after a long delay, she had already threatened to leave and only stayed on the condition that WWE would grant her another program with her good friend and MMA companion Shayna Baszler.
Triple H comes off well with Rousey
Ultimately, despite everything, she drew a line in the sand; she explained to league board member “Triple H” Paul Levesque in a lengthy conversation: “I can no longer put up with mediocrity.” This was ultimately the point at which she went through the the lack of appreciation she saw.
That wouldn’t have been due to Levesque – now the strong man in WWE’s product design – he gets along well with Rousey and the two would have had a trusting relationship: “I wish he had been solely responsible when I had my last run. “
Rousey also emphasized several times that she has no plans to return to WWE: “All the power in the world to the girls who keep up the good fight, but I’m in my mid-30s now and I have other things to do.”
2024-03-26 13:40:24
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