Former UFC and WWE Famous person Ronda Rousey completely shredded professional wrestling’s “Emperor Palpatine” Vince McMahon in her upcoming memoir.
Formally set for a launch on April 2, Our Battle will give followers of the ladies’s MMA pioneer a glimpse into her journey from an Olympic medalist to a UFC champion, to one of many largest names in all of sports activities leisure. Sadly, it wasn’t glitz and glamor, significantly throughout her post-UFC stint as a member of the WWE roster.
From 2017 to 2023, Rousey was an energetic member of the WWE locker room — apart from a interval of inactivity throughout which her daughter was born. Throughout her time, ‘Rowdy’ was one of many largest names within the sport and even broke limitations by being one of many first girls to ever headline WrestleMania.
Final 12 months, Rousey walked away from the promotion, main many to imagine that she was gearing up for a return to MMA at UFC 300 on April 13.
We now know that’s not the case, however it seems that there was a far darker purpose for her determination to stroll away, as seen in an excerpt from her e-book.
“NXT was based by and beneath the management of Triple H, actual identify Paul Levesque,” a piece of Rousey’s memoir learn.” As well as into being my in-ring WrestleMania nemesis, he’s arguably probably the greatest skilled wrestlers in historical past and one of many higher folks on the enterprise aspect. He’s married to Stephanie McMahon, who’s the daughter of WWE’s Emperor Palpatine, Vince McMahon. Vince took over the corporate from his father within the early Nineteen Eighties and spent the higher a part of forty years taking part in a real-world pro-wrestling model of Monopoly, shopping for up and absorbing smaller promotions till he principally owned all of them.
“It’s laborious generally to know the place the evil, unethical, slimeball character of Vince McMahon performed out for the digital camera ends and the precise questionably moral, many instances sued, and a number of instances accused of sexual misconduct Vince McMahon begins. That blurred line between character and actuality is a recurring theme throughout the WWE Universe” (h/t BJPenn.com).
Ronda Rousey takes a dig at McMahon’s cope with Saudi Arabia
In January, a former WWE worker named Janel Grant filed a lawsuit in opposition to McMahon, alleging that the WWE founder had sexually assaulted her a number of instances in 2021 and trafficked her to different staff throughout the group. McMahon allegedly pressured Grant into signing an NDA to safe her silence in trade for $3 million. Nevertheless, after the preliminary $1 million fee, no additional funds had been ever made prompting Grant to file the swimsuit.
McMahon stepped down from his function with the WWE and as a boss of its mum or dad firm, TKO Group shortly after the allegations had been first reported in The Wall Road Journal.
“[Pay-per-views are] held in main cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, in addition to twice a 12 months now in Saudi Arabia,” the memoir continues. “A nation that restricts the rights of ladies in a approach that I’m sure Vince McMahon needs he might.”