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 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 lively 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 recreation and even broke boundaries by being one of many first ladies to ever headline WrestleMania.
Final 12 months, Rousey walked away from the promotion, main many to consider 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 resolution to stroll away, as seen in an excerpt from her e-book.
“NXT was based by and underneath the management of Triple H, actual identify Paul Levesque,” a bit 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 facet. 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 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 mainly owned all of them.
“It’s arduous typically 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 towards 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 go well with.
McMahon stepped down from his position with the WWE and as a md of its dad or mum 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 method that I’m sure Vince McMahon needs he might.”
