When Ronda Rousey joined WWE she quickly made it to the main event scene, but she hasn’t wrestled a match since she main evented WrestleMania 35 with Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair last year.
However, the wrestling world has been talking about Ronda a whole lot as of late after she referred to wrestling matches as “fake fights.”
Shortly after Rousey made the comments Alexa Bliss reacted on Twitter, and she made it clear during an interview with Sporting News that while she respects Rousey she does not agree with the things she said.
“Here’s the thing: I want to start off saying I have a lot of respect for Ronda. I do. We get along great. I just said this already, and I’ll say it again, I don’t like when people use the F-word — when people say fake — because what we do is not fake. She’s accomplished a lot in MMA. She came into our business and everyone was more than accommodating, more than wanting to see her succeed. It’s kind of that thing where it’s like this is a two-person thing. Every match that we have, you’re only as good as the person that you’re in the ring with.
The fact that she called it fake could be her opinion on it. But it’s offensive to everyone that has had injuries, and myself included because I’ve gone in the company, six years without having a single injury. And then I ended up having a whole documentary based on multiple concussions that I wasn’t even sure I was going to be cleared to ever be in the ring again.”
Bliss was also asked if she and other members of the locker room would feel the need to talk to Ronda Rousey about her comments if she returned, and she indicated that something like that would probably happen.
“Probably. I don’t know unless that happens. I have a lot of respect for her. She’s done a lot. She did an amazing job in WWE. We respected her business, and we made sure that we catered the matches to her style and so we didn’t disrespect her style. So you know, just for the people that helped you along the way like, don’t disrespect us and our business, that’s all.”
Hm. Was out for almost a year. Must have been “ fake” pic.twitter.com/lnLLAq3laT
— Lexi Kaufman (@AlexaBliss_WWE) April 11, 2020
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