Former WWE chief Vince McMahon has come under fire again after the release of former WWE superstar and MMA fighter Ronda Rousey’s memoir Our Fight. The star has reportedly revealed many scandalous details about the promotion’s behind-the-scenes practices, especially McMahon’s way of running the company.
Rousey has called out WWE and McMahon on multiple occasions, with her memoir also revealing many harsh truths about the promotion. Rousey mentioned how the women’s division of the WWE was treated under the former CEO and how much they had to fight to get recognition. She also mentioned how McMahon reacted when she dropped the ‘Women’ in the ‘Women’s title’ while giving a speech.
Ronda Rousey’s Full-Blown Attack On Vince McMahon
Ronda Rousey began her professional wrestling career with the WWE in 2018 when she made an appearance in WrestleMania 34. The MMA star teamed up with Kurt Angle and fought against Stephanie McMahon and Triple H in a mixed tag team match. Rousey had a flourishing career at the WWE, where she held multiple titles such as the Raw Women’s Championship and SmackDown Women’s Championship.
After she departed from the WWE, Ronda Rousey mentioned the behind-the-scenes issues with the promotion on several occasions. Recently, while promoting her new memoir Our Fight, she spoke about her disdain for promoters Bruce Prichard and John Laurinaitis. She also mentioned how she could not talk more about the two WWE veterans in her book as she had a 9,000-word limit (via PW Insider).
The MMA star has also attacked former WWE CEO Vince McMahon on multiple occasions. In Our Right, Rousey recounted an incident when she was still in the ring where she had to fight to get the terminology of the women’s division in the WWE right. She mentioned that she came under fire from McMahon for not mentioning ‘Women’s’ in the ‘SmackDown Women’s Title’ in the ring.
“‘When the men start calling it a men’s title, I’ll start calling it a women’s,’ I said. I raised the issue with Triple H…He later told me he had mentioned it to Vince, who was appalled. ‘Get out here with that woke bullsh*t,’ Vince had told him, ‘We’re going to call it the women’s title because they’re fu*king women.’”
The star also mentioned how despite Triple H agreeing with her point of view, he was powerless as Vince McMahon immediately dismissed it.
Ronda Rousey Compared Vince McMahon To Emperor Palpatine
Vince McMahon had a huge hand in bringing the WWE to where it is. However, the former CEO has come under fire on multiple occasions for his conduct off the ring and recently stepped down as the chief of both WWE and TKO Group Holdings after he was accused of abuse s*xual assault, and trafficking by a former employee (via NBC News).
Ronda Rousey has since been attacking the former CEO for his treatment of women wrestlers in the WWE and has mentioned how the ‘Divas’ were never given their due respect. In an excerpt from her memoir Our Fight, Rousey compared McMahon to Star Wars’ Emperor Palpatine and mentioned how he wished he controlled women’s rights.
Rousey even recounted how the divas were initially only recruited for their physical appearances and were overly s*xualized. She also mentioned how a social media backlash resulted in the divas finally getting a chance to show their prowess in a professional ring. However, it had a catch,
“It was only after WWE was basically arm-barred into it, following a global social media backlash to #givedivasachance after Divas were given a total of thirty seconds— less time than it takes most people to read this paragraph—for a nationally televised tag match. Four women were given less time to collectively wrestle than every single man on the roster got for his intro music alone.”
She reportedly called out the sexist practices of WWE and even exposed the hypocrisy of the promotion in her memoir. Rousey also revealed how there was a casting couch culture in the WWE and that many people in power had been privy to it.
