Ronda Rousey has a scathing tackle Vince McMahon. Rousey acknowledged current sexual misconduct allegations in opposition to the disgraced former WWE chairman in her new e book.
Rousey, who was signed full-time with WWE between 2017 and 2023, criticized McMahon and the corporate for its traditionally poor therapy of ladies in her new autobiography, Our Struggle. The previous UFC champion and multi-time WWE titleholder in contrast McMahon’s grip on WWE to the sinister Emperor Palentine’s tyranny within the “Star Wars” franchise.
“It is laborious typically to know the place the evil, unethical, slimeball character of Vince McMahon performed out for the cameras ends and the precise questionably moral, many instances sued, and a number of instances accused of sexual misconduct Vince McMahon begins,” Rousey writes in an excerpt of her e book revealed by Contained in the Ropes forward of its April 4 launch.
Rousey criticized the corporate’s historical past of holding “Bra and Panties” matches by which a winner was declared by stripping her opponent right down to her underwear. The final Bra and Panties match occurred on a 2007 episode of WWE Uncooked.
“Even after that gimmick was retired by WWE executives — I am certain very reluctantly and with a variety of lamenting about political correctness — it was nonetheless clear that the group positioned extra worth on a girl’s bodily look than her bodily capacity,” Rousey writes.
Girls are featured way more prominently in at the moment’s WWE and in a fashion extra carefully reflecting their male counterparts. Rousey, Becky Lynch and Charlotte Aptitude had been the primary girls to headline WrestleMania in 2019. Sasha Banks and Bianca Belair major evented Evening 1 of WrestleMania 37 two years later, marking the primary time two Black superstars top-billed the annual showcase. The corporate has come a great distance from its “Bra and Panties” days, however Rousey credit fan suggestions for the corporate’s tradition shift.
“It was solely after WWE was principally arm-barred into it, following a worldwide social media backlash to #givedivasachance after Divas got a complete of thirty seconds — much less time than it takes most individuals to learn this paragraph — for a nationally televised tag match,” Rousey writes. “4 girls got much less time to collectively wrestle than each single man on the roster received for his intro music alone.Â
“Introduced this info as an individual outdoors of the wrestling world you may draw the conclusion that there’s a troubling foundational sexist, patriarchal tradition throughout the WWE. You’d be proper. I’ve nothing however respect for the feminine wrestlers who paved the way in which for ladies wrestlers at the moment. And nothing however disgust for the quantity of sexist, degrading bullsh*t they had been put by way of.”
McMahon resigned from TKO Group Holdings, WWE and UFC’s mother or father firm, amid sexual assault and trafficking allegations. McMahon is underneath federal investigation and a civil lawsuit over the sexual abuse accusations.