Stephanie McMahon doesn’t get in the ring all that often, but when she does it’s usually for a big match.
Earlier this year the former WWE Women’s Champion teamed up with her husband Triple H to take on Ronda Rousey and Kurt Angle in Ronda’s debut match at WrestleMania 34.
Stephanie McMahon spoke to The National about what it was like training for the match, and she noted that her kids watched her and Ronda train for the match, and Rousey even got in the ring with them.
“In terms of working with Ronda, my kids came down to watch me train in the performance centre with Ronda. They watched us go through the match and Ronda got in the ring with them and she was great. She really is a wonderful person and she got in the ring with them and worked them over a little bit and then it was really cute.
Stephanie then went on to say that she was trying to explain one of the spots in the match to her kids, but when her explanation didn’t quite click, she decided to give them a visual example of what would be happening in the ring.
“I was with my kids and it was the day before WrestleMania. It was my two little ones. My oldest one understands it more. I said ‘OK guys, this is how the match is going to end. Ronda Rousey is going to break my arm, but she is not really going to break my arm’ and they weren’t getting it. So I said ‘Mummy’s going to lie down on the floor’ and I put my arm up in the air and I said ‘OK Murphy I want you to grab my arm and push it back like this’. As soon as she touched my arm I went like this and reacted she had really hurt me. And then I was Murphy, ‘I’m OK, that is what I am showing you, it is all in the reaction’. I then asked her to do the same thing and I didn’t react and I was able to say ‘see, you’re not hurting me’. And then my youngest was like ‘let me try, let me try!’ It was their aha moment and they were no longer worried. But mummy going through the table from the year before that was harder to explain. My 10 year old explained it as the stunt table. ‘That’s the stunt table, right momma?’ they asked.”
