Ronda Rousey recently appeared on the Wild Ride! podcast with Steve-O and gave her thoughts about “having fake fights” in WWE.
“I love the WWE,” Rousey said. “I had such a great time. I love all the girls in the locker room. Running out there and having fake fights for fun is just the best thing. I love choreography. I love acting. I love theater. Live theater and some of the last forms of live theater.”
During that same interview, she expressed how she would rather spend time with her family than risking her life for fans.
“What am I doing it for if I’m not being able to spend my time and energy on my family, but instead spending my time and my energy on a bunch of f–king ungrateful fans that don’t even appreciate me?” Rousey wondered. “The thing is, I love performing. I love the girls. I love being out there. But, at the end of the day, I was just like, ‘F–k these fans, dude.’ My family loves me. They appreciate me. I want all of my energy to go into them.”
Not only were WWE fans upset about this, but so were fellow wrestlers Alexis Bliss and Lana who both took to Twitter and fired back at her.
“I have NO WORDS for her audacity to save ‘fake fighting,’” Lana wrote on Twitter. “. . . This is a contact sport where REAL things happen!”
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Nia Jax also chimed in:
Rousey would take to Instagram and double down on her comments on Saturday.
“Anyone who is outraged by me calling pro wrestling ‘fake fights for fun’ has never been in a REAL fight.”
She goes on, “While you all are tiptoeing around bruising some pro wrestlers’ huge soft egos — no one is thinking about all the REAL fighters you’re insulting when pretending pro wrestling is somehow on the same level of realism.” Ronda finishes by saying, “Yes, I understand, wrestling 300 days a year for years on end is incredibly tough on the body and a difficult profession — but do you know what would happen if you got in 300 REAL fights in a year? You would be dead.”
It remains to be seen if all this is just a work or Rousey was serious and is truly not coming back to the WWE.
