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Ronda Rousey takes aim at Vince McMahon in her upcoming new memoir.
Rousey's book "Our Fight" releases on April 2 but excerpts of it began spreading on social media Wednesday morning.
In the released paragraphs, Rousey says Triple H is "one of the better people" on the business side of the company and compares Vince McMahon to Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars.
An excerpt reads:
Another excerpt reads:
She continues to say the company only began giving female talent more airtime after they were "basically armbarred into it."
Following McMahon's departure from TKO in January, Rousey took to social media to express that if Bruce Prichard is still with the company McMahon still had a hand in running it.
She wrote:
In March 2023, Rousey wrote that her program with Liv Morgan had been "hamstrung by a bunch of octogenarians."
She wrote:
Rousey will be promoting her book in Philadelphia during WrestleMania Week. She's been announced for WrestleCon at The Sheraton in downtown Philadelphia from April 4-7, 2024. She will be signing copies of her book at the show.
Our Fight will be her second memoir. It will follow up on her 2015 book, "My Fight."
Rousey's book "Our Fight" releases on April 2 but excerpts of it began spreading on social media Wednesday morning.
In the released paragraphs, Rousey says Triple H is "one of the better people" on the business side of the company and compares Vince McMahon to Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars.
An excerpt reads:
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. 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.
Another excerpt reads:
Elsewhere in the book, Rousey talks about how female talent in WWE has been treated in the company.[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.
WWE loves to do well-produced video segments about the legacy of women within the organization, but the truth is women have largely been footnotes. For the longest time, they were relegated to serving male characters in a valet role, an overly sexualized supporting character that takes cheap shots when the ref isn’t looking. Over time, as the level of female talent grew and society as a whole started to shift, the organization gradually expanded the role of female wrestlers.
WWE bills itself as a sports entertainment organization, and just like in the mainstream entertainment industry, there was, by all accounts, a casting couch culture where men backstage in powerful positions pressured female talent for sexual favors in return for airtime. There were so many public accusations and scandals it’s hard to keep track, and more that I’m sure the WWE managed to sweep under the ring.
She continues to say the company only began giving female talent more airtime after they were "basically armbarred into it."
And it was only after WWE was basically armbarred 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.
Presented this information as a person outside of the wrestling world you might draw the conclusion that there is a troubling foundational sexist, patriarchal culture within the WWE. You would be right. I have nothing but respect for the female wrestlers who paved the way for women wrestlers today. And nothing but disgust for the amount of sexist, degrading bullshit they were put through.
Following McMahon's departure from TKO in January, Rousey took to social media to express that if Bruce Prichard is still with the company McMahon still had a hand in running it.
She wrote:
Bruce Prichard is basically Vince’s avatar, if he’s still around Vince still has a hand in the business. Vince was still running things through Bruce when he was 'gone' before
In March 2023, Rousey wrote that her program with Liv Morgan had been "hamstrung by a bunch of octogenarians."
She wrote:
Imagine what our @yaonlylivvonce feud could have been if we weren’t hamstrung by a bunch of octogenarians who still think they know how to be hip while putting less than 5 minutes of thought a week into each women’s storyline… new #RondaOnTheRoad
Rousey will be promoting her book in Philadelphia during WrestleMania Week. She's been announced for WrestleCon at The Sheraton in downtown Philadelphia from April 4-7, 2024. She will be signing copies of her book at the show.
Our Fight will be her second memoir. It will follow up on her 2015 book, "My Fight."