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Ronda Rousey sparked some buzz with her comments about Vince McMahon.
Ronda Rousey was one of the top stars in UFC before she transitioned to WWE, where she won the RAW and SmackDown Women’s Championship, among other accolades. Rousey left WWE after she lost at WWE SummerSlam 2023. During her time with the company. Rousey worked closely with Vince McMahon. The former chairman resigned in January after a lawsuit filed by Janel Grant alleged that he committed sexual assault and sex trafficking.
In her new autobiography, Our Fight, which will be released on April 4, Rousey spoke critically of McMahon. (H/t Inside The Ropes)
“NXT was founded by and under the control of Triple H, real name Paul Levesque. In addition to being my in-ring WrestleMania nemesis, he is arguably one of the best professional wrestlers in history and one of the better people on the business side,” Ronda Rousey wrote. “He is married to Stephanie McMahon, who is the daughter of WWE’s Emperor Palpatine, Vince McMahon.
“Vince took over the company from his father in the early 1980s and spent the better part of forty years playing a real-world pro-wrestling version of Monopoly, buying up and absorbing smaller promotions until he basically owned them all. It’s hard sometimes to know where the evil, unethical, slimeball character of Vince McMahon played out for the cameras ends and the actual questionably ethical, many times sued, and multiple times accused of sexual misconduct Vince McMahon begins. That blurred line between character and reality is a recurring theme within the WWE Universe.”
Ronda Rousey Takes Another Shot At Vince McMahon
Elsewhere in the book, Ronda Rousey also shared her belief that Vince McMahon likely wishes he could restrict the rights of women the way that Saudi Arabia does, as she referred to WWE’s events here.
“[Pay-per-views are] held in major cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, as well as now twice a year in Saudi Arabia, a nation that restricts the rights of women in a way that I’m certain Vince McMahon wishes he could,” Rousey wrote.
McMahon has denied the allegations, but he is under federal investigation.
