Ronda Rousey on Disdain for Vince McMahon & WWE’s Treatment of Women’s Division, Lack of Singles Match with Becky Lynch at WrestleMania, & Reason for Departure

CageSideSeats.com held a recent interview with Ronda Rousey. One of the topics discussed included Rousey’s thoughts about her current disdain of Vince McMahon and issues with WWE originated from her frustrations over WWE’s poor treatment of their Women’s division behind the scenes during her time in the company.

“The Bloodline is able to plan things out a year ahead of time, and they won’t even talk to me until I get to the arena. About anything.

I proved in my first match that if you give me the time, the resources and preparation, I can put together an amazing match. And I feel like they’re really doing that with Logan Paul and allowing him to rehearse and put these things together and have all these different resources, producers to bring him to his highest potential. And it got to the point where he girls [weren’t] gonna get any of that.

I just didn’t wanna be Vince’s action f—-ing figure anymore. I felt like I was like doing custom matches for a f—-ing sicko in the back.

All power to the girls that keep fighting the good fight. But I’m in my mid-30’s now. I’ve got s—t to do.”

Rousey also gave her thoughts about how McMahon was never actually gone from WWE despite his initial resignation from the company in 2022 due to Bruce Prichard being his surrogate in WWE’s Creative.

“(Vince McMahon) was never gone while I was there. He was just phoning it in through Bruce Pritchard.

My agent who works at WME (Endeavor), he was telling me, ‘You know, he’s completely gone now, I swear.’ And I’m like, I’ll believe it when I see it, because everyone said he left before. He never left. He was there by text message.”

Rousey also gave her thoughts about the reason why she never had a singles match against Becky Lynch at a WrestleMania event during her time in the company.

“WWE just refused to work with me at all. They refused to collaborate. They didn’t want to talk to me about it. They kept pushing it off and pushing it off until it finally got to the road to WrestleMania, and they’re like, yeah, we’re not gonna do you and Becky.

I’m like, ‘Alright, well then I’m f—-ing leaving unless me and Shanya [Baszler] can tag.’

If you guys don’t want to work with me, you don’t wanna do something extraordinary. You just wanna do good enough every single night. I came here to have fun with my friends.”

On the topic of her decision to leave WWE, Rousey stated:

“I had a long sit down with Triple H and I was like, ‘I can’t be associated with mediocrity.’ And that’s what they seemed to be happy with at the time. And I hope that is different now, but I can’t say… that I’ve ever experienced it any other way.

Triple H has been great towards the women in the company and really believing in us. He’s the whole reason that I was there, ‘cause he believed in me. I really wish that my last run was under Triple H running things and Vince being gone.”