Recently, Ronda Rousey was criticized for her comments about her time in WWE, particularly for complaining about her SummerSlam 2018 match with Alexa Bliss for the RAW Women’s Championship.
Though she achieved success in her two runs with World Wrestling Entertainment, Rousey has always been vocal about her time in the promotion, and can be heard often criticizing her matches and the company. Noted radio DJ and WWE panelist Peter Rosenberg recently slammed the multiple-time Women’s Champion for her remarks about her pro-wrestling career and her recent comments about Bliss in particular.
Peter Rosengberg Says Ronda Rousey Can’t Criticize Match With Alexa Bliss: ” You Are Not An All-Time Great In Wrestling.”
Speaking on the latest episode of Wrestling With Rosenberg, he and his co-host SGG spoke about Matt Riddle’s and Rousey’s comments about WWE.
Rosenberg admitted that he didn’t like Rousey’s gimmick, and he honestly didn’t have anything bad to say about her personally.
Check out an excerpt of their conversation below:
Is it possible that Ronda Rousey and Matt Riddle could never talk again?
[I would love that. I would love that. I mean, at least about pro wrestling. Speak on, you know. Yeah. How do you like your steak cartoons? ]
Yeah. I mean, listen, I don’t know how well they do in those departments, but like, yeah. Certainly not, but certainly not anything.
I mean, the funniest thing about both is, and I say this always understanding there’s a risk that, like, they could come back or I don’t know, maybe WWE, there are people there who are important who really like Ronda Rousey. I don’t, I never have. I was not personally at the time. I always thought she carried herself fine.
I never I didn’t have a lot of interaction with her. But I didn’t have anything bad to say about her at all, but I never enjoyed her as a character.”
Elaborating further, he said the former WWE Women’s Champion shouldn’t really criticize the company, as they gave her Roddy Piper’s gimmick, along with an expensive theme. He expressed that while he didn’t want Rousey to be severely punished for her comments about Alexa Bliss, she should not have been harshly critical of someone who had given her life to the business:
I thought her in-ring work had a realism that made her potentially interesting, but you are talking about someone who came from another world with more hype than you could possibly imagine, then was gifted Rowdy Roddy Piper’s entire gimmick. Was given a fire expensive theme song to use, got all the bells and whistles, all the big treatment, everything that you could imagine.
And all we hear her do is complain about her time in WWE. And I’m not saying she doesn’t say more than that. And it doesn’t make news. I bet she has said positive things, and people just don’t talk about it. And that is a shame on all of us.
That is the way the world works. But SGG this week for her to sort of not sort of blatantly criticize the fact that she worked with Alexa Bliss as if Bliss was somehow beneath her was yet another example of just Ronda Rousey needing to pry her foot out of her mouth. And listen, maybe there’ll be an opportunity where someone, certainly worse things have been done, and people have been forgiven and came back.
I’m not trying to say she is, you know, she should get the death penalty. Like, this is not the ultimate sin or anything, but like, can you just have a little class and not bury the people who work in the business day in and day out? This is a — This is a business that gave you a lot of money, a lot of fame, and you did quite well doing it, and you left when you wanted to. And I’m sure it wasn’t all perfect. Nobody’s job is.”
He continued his rant by saying that Rousey was not an accomplished name in the wrestling business, such as Randy Orton or Batista, implying that they would not complain about their time there if they had a bad experience. Both he and SGG then called out the hypocrisy in Rousey’s statements about the only reason she faced Bliss was because Alexa had high merch sales:
But SGG, I just I don’t know who she thinks she is to act as if you know, you’re not like Randy Orton or Batista, who, by the way, would never badmouth the business.
[Right]
Like who are you? I don’t I don’t get it. Like, criticize UFC fighters. No problem. You were an all-time great in MMA. You’re not an all-time great in wrestling. You’re not.
So, like, you just don’t have the cache to say things about people like Bliss who have been around a lot and given their bodies and their time and their effort and leave their child every week to be on TV and go through a lot of different things personally and professionally to be a part of the business.
It is incredibly disrespectful now for you to decide your time was up, and now you want to talk trash about the people who did it. I’m sorry. even if you were good enough to do it, you shouldn’t do it, and you weren’t good enough to do it.
[And she’s a hypocrite, right? Because the quote, if I’m going to paraphrase, I don’t really remember it completely, but I think she was.]
Here we go. I’ll give it to you. I’m going to read it to you verbatim. Ready? Kelly always has us prepared.
[I see it. ‘The fact that they had me fighting Alexa Bliss at all was bleeping ridiculous. And you want to know why they had me against Alexa Bliss? Because she had the most merch sales at the time. Like, what the f? That’s your decision-making process?’]
[And here’s why I call her a hypocrite. Because it’s actually Alexa Bliss who has the cache who should be saying something like this. The fact that they had Alexa Bliss fighting Ronda Rousey at all because Ronda Rousey came in with the name and was popular and had like some sort of ‘cultural cache,’ quote unquote, and ‘mainstream appeal,’ quote unquote. That’s the part that’s ridiculous that they put Alexa in the ring with Ronda and had Alexa go through that. It wasn’t any sight to Ronda. It’s actually a sight to Alexa.
If you want to talk about how absurd their business is making and the decision-making process is that if you’re popular enough, you get to go at the champion who grinded her way from the bottom, did what she had to do, worked her way to the top, was beloved by her fans, as evidenced by those same merch sales that they’re pointing out and holding up to you that you get to just walk in because you’re popular somewhere else and you don’t have to go through that. The insult wasn’t to Ronda Rousey. The insult was to Alexa Bliss.]”
You can hear Rosenberg and SGG’s comments in the video below:
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