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Headline: Ronda Rousey Going Into UFC Hall Of Fame
With Kenny Omega and Kazuchika Okada breaking the Internet and Michael Jackson breaking
CM Punk’s face over the weekend, you may have missed the small bit of news that Nia
Jax’s Money in the Bank oppeant Ronda Rousey will be inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame
next month.
Rousey quit MMA with a record of 12 wins and 2 loses, and has been credited for establishing
the women’s division in UFC.
Dana White said in a prepared statement, “There would be no women in UFC without Ronda Rousey.
Ronda is an absolute pioneer who helped me — and a lot of other people — look at
women in combat sports differently.”
Oh Dana, you silly fool.
You’re thinking of Stephanie McMahon - she started all the women sports!
Rousey called the induction an immense honor in an Instagram post adding, “May I be the
first of many.”
Let’s just hope that she’s allowed to say her own words during her induction speech
- as scripting her is clearly a mistake.
Headline: Backstage Unhappiness Over Ronda Rousey Segment
Last week on Monday Night Raw Ronda Rousey went out on commentary during a match between
Nia Jax and her super duper uber BFF in the whole wide world Natalya - but she’s just
as much Nia’s friend - and… well she didn’t do a great job.
Between her “uhh”s and abject silence, Ronda didn’t add anything to the match and
certainly didn’t build any anticipation for her first WWE Women’s Championship match
this coming Sunday.
Oh yeah, Money in the Bank is this Sunday in case you forgot.
During the match Corey Graves said that Jax called Rousey “ripe for the picking”,
which Ronda replied with, “ripe for the picking is something only my husband calls
me.”
Not only was it an odd line, when they came back from the commercial break the same question
was asked and Ronda repeated the same answer.
And on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer confirmed what most of us believed that this
was a scripted line that Ronda was told to say and not something she came up with on
her own.
“The Ronda thing was evidently scripted and that’s probably why the announcers went
back and asked the same question twice.
Several people [in WWE] have remarked that [it was] very bad judgment putting Ronda in
that position, scripted.
Clearly, she wasn’t with it.
She was so standoffish.
It was the wrong Ronda.
You can tell she’s not a good actress.
When she’s not happy you can see right through it.”
And if WrestlingNews.co are to be believed, it wasn’t just Ronda who was unhappy with
her scripted dialogue.
“To add to what Meltzer said, I have heard that there were people backstage groaning
at the line”
This is the first time we’ve heard anything negative backstage on Rousey, with the last
report saying her attitude was great and everyone in the locker room respected her coming in.
But if Ric Flair is to be believed, she might not be there for much longer.
Headline: Ronda Rousey Leaving WWE?
When Ronda debuted at the Royal Rumble in January it was reported that she had signed
a multi-year deal and that this was going to be a full-time career for her.
Rousey herself told ESPN shortly after she signed, “This is my life now.
First priority on my timeline for the next several years.
This is not a smash-and-grab; this is not a publicity stunt.”
There have also been rumours that WWE wanted to use Ronda to get a better deal with either
the USA Network or Fox when it came to the TV rights for Raw and Smackdown Live - and
there are rumours that she and Charlotte Flair will be the first women to main event WrestleMania
next year.
However when speaking about those WrestleMania rumours with Chris Van Vliet, Flair may have
let slip that Ronda Rousey isn’t staying with WWE for as long as we’ve all been led
to believe.
“Ronda's only signed a one-year deal and then she's out of there.
She wants to have kids and all that.”
If this is the case then one would assume that Ronda’s contract will end at Royal
Rumble next year unless she signs an extension for WrestleMania.
Or it could just be that Rousey has signed for just one year with the idea that she and
WWE will renegotiate for another when those 12 months are up.
Headline: Hulk Hogan Returning To WWE Soon?
You may have noticed that Ric Flair wasn’t the only person being interview by Van Vliet
in that video as he was also talking with Hulk Hogan.
The Hulkster was fired by WWE in 2015 after a video of him using racial slurs was released
online, but in the last few months the rumours of Hogan returning to the company have become
more frequent.
When asked if he was going to return to WWE Hogan said, “Yeah I'm ready, things are
moving in that direction quite quickly.
It's all about execution and timing.
The right place and the right time, but things are all good.”
Good job he got that right place and right time line correct, because the last time he
tried it…
Get all the latest rumour and innuendo on this Sunday’s PPV with El Fakidor breaking
down the latest Money in the Bank news.
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