Former UFC and WWE Celebrity Ronda Rousey completely shredded professional wrestling’s “Emperor Palpatine” Vince McMahon in her upcoming memoir.
Formally set for a launch on April 2, Our Struggle 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, notably 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 — other than 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 yr, 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 cause for her resolution to stroll away, as seen in an excerpt from her e-book.
“NXT was based by and beneath the management of Triple H, actual title Paul Levesque,” a bit of Rousey’s memoir learn.” As well as into being my in-ring WrestleMania nemesis, he’s arguably among the best 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 enjoying a real-world pro-wrestling model of Monopoly, shopping for up and absorbing smaller promotions till he principally owned all of them.
“It’s exhausting typically to know the place the evil, unethical, slimeball character of Vince McMahon performed out for the digicam 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 inside 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 workers inside the group. McMahon allegedly pressured Grant into signing an NDA to safe her silence in change for $3 million. Nonetheless, after the preliminary $1 million cost, no additional funds had been ever made prompting Grant to file the go well with.
McMahon stepped down from his function with the WWE and as a boss of its mother or father firm, TKO Group shortly after the allegations had been first reported in The Wall Avenue Journal.
“[Pay-per-views are] held in main cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, in addition to twice a yr now in Saudi Arabia,” the memoir continues. “A nation that restricts the rights of girls in a approach that I’m sure Vince McMahon needs he may.”
