Ronda Rousey spent six years as a full-time WWE superstar and she didn’t like what she saw. The three-time WWE Women’s Champion, who has since retired and is opposed to publishing her first featured magazine, has hope for the leader of professional wrestling in a world without former CEO Vince McMahon in power.
“I think anyone is better than Vince McMahon,” Rousey told CBS Sports Hour when discussing the Kickstarter campaign, launching July 25, for her impressive “Expecting the Unexpected” magazine. “The only place you can go is up. I really enjoy Triple H and working with him, and honestly, I haven’t been watching him, but I saw some Natty. [Neidhart] saying that they recently had a card that had as many women as men.
“That’s what I would really like to see. The ladies are also represented not only in outfits on the card, but also on the screen.”
rosey wrote scathing comments about McMahon in his recent autobiography, Our fight. She criticized the company’s poor record in hiring women and pointed to the various allegations of sexual misconduct against McMahon, the latest of which resigned from WWE and parent company TKO in January and reportedly under federal investigation for sexual abuse and trafficking.
WWE’s modern energy structure has changed dramatically. Triple H, known as Paul Levesque in his executive roles, basically serves as WWE’s famous chief content officer alongside CEO Ari Emanuel and president Nick Khan. Levesque was once an integral part of Rousey’s profession. Rousey first stepped into a WWE ring at WrestleMania 31 in 2015, protecting Levesque’s wife, Stephanie McMahon, throughout the process that also involved Triple H and The Rock. Rousey made her in-ring debut three years later, teaming with Kurt Perspective in a match against Triple H and Stephanie.
“I feel like there’s nowhere else for them to go but up and I’m very, very happy for all the women who are still there and thriving under the new regime,” Rousey mentioned.
Paul Heyman was once someone more integral to Rousey’s professional wrestling profession. Heyman’s close friendship and on-screen chemistry with former UFC and WWE champion Brock Lesnar placed him in regular breeding ground with Rousey as she transitioned from the UFC to WWE. Rousey says the 2024 WWE Hall of Fame inductee, who is actively doing some of the best work of his career in The Bloodline’s history, ran the cult-favorite wrestling promotion Last Championship Wrestling (ECW). and had roles as general manager of SmackDown and government essayist, he has contributed to the business with techniques that in no way can be fully understood.
“I feel like he is the absolute backbone of the entire industry,” Rousey mentioned. “People don’t see the spine. It’s hidden under the body, but he is literally everyone’s mentor. Every success story has its roots in him. I think the industry would be a shell of itself without him.
“You guys should feel very lucky to have his past because he can spend that intelligence on anything else. But he spends 100% of his past and effort on WWE. He’s the one who inspired me creatively. He really believed in me.” “I am much more than what my body can do.”
Watch the full interview with Ronda Rousey below.
Rousey credits Heyman for encouraging her on the writing path that ended up in her impressive magazine, a memoir, and screenwriting work for her impending Netflix biopic.
“He really encouraged me to write and create,” Rousey mentioned. “He’s the person who told me, ‘You have to go and write your own story.’ Nobody saw me that way before or had that kind of belief in me. I didn’t even have that kind of belief in myself. I wrote the logline , and then after breaking my knuckle, I went into surgery and jumped straight into a hospital, on the plane doing ‘The Stephen Colbert Show’ to promote ‘Mortal Kombat 11’, and finally, lying in a bed for the first time in four. At eight hours, I sat and wrote a cast in the notes on my phone for 11 hours straight writing the first draft of this was something that was inside me and Paul Heyman was the only one who saw it.
“Five years later, I’ve learned a lot and put a lot of work and love into this, and in any case the brilliance of the hour is optical. It’s not something I’m doing to provoke anyone. In any case, I’ve gotten rid of that for part of my time. You know what, I’m retired. I’m going to do what I want to do. I think it’s like writing an awesome magazine and it’s not really a question of whether the nation does it one way or another. an obligation. I needed to tell the story and scribble it. I hope it reveals to someone, even someone who had to read it as much as I had to scribble it.”
