Former WWE star Ruby Riott recalled that Ronda Rousey once pushed to have a longer match with her on an episode of WWE Raw. Ronda Rousey and Ruby riot had A feud back in 2019 when Ronda was the WWE Raw Women’s Champion. In this cute Ruby was only given a jobbing role before Ronda would drop the title to Becky Lynch.
Riott started her professional wrestling career back in 2010 on the Independent Circuit. She was vastly known as Heidi Lovelace during her career before WWE. She became extremely famous because of her unique professional wrestling style. Of course, she was one of the Indie darlings.
Ruby Riott Remembers Once Ronda Rousey Pushed For A Longer Match With Her
She travelled in a lot of professional wrestling promotions before joining WWE in 2016. She made her in ring debut in 2017. Those who knew who was where extremely happy to see in a WWE ring. She was treated as a title Contender during her NXT career. But everything changed after she joined the main roster.
She was never treated as a main event star after she joined the main roster. Even though, the stable she used too lead was named after her, it was the Riott Squad. After a lot of ups and downs, she was released by WWE last month. She could never find the success in WWE that she deserved.
Recently Ruby Riott appeared as a guest on the Wrestling Perspective Podcast to talk about a number of topics, Riott remembered that Ronda Rousey once pushed to have a longer match with her on an episode of WWE Raw. She said;
“The first thing that pops to mind was my match with Ronda Rousey,” said Ruby when asked about her favorite match in WWE. “It was surprising to me. She is an incredible person. My match with her at Elimination Chamber was very short. The story was not based around me. It was based around what was ready to happen.
“The weekend prior, we had done a lot. We did a couple of house shows and had this match that we were so proud of and so excited. It was an amazing thing to be able to bring her style in what I wanted to do. For us to be able to tell this story, that’s the story that I want to tell is with somebody who has a completely different style than I have.
“Especially with her, I wanted to make sure it was like, if you get me in a hold, it’s game over. I asked her, ‘what’s illegal in MMA? Those are the things I want to do to you.’ It was so much of our brainchild.”
“Then, Elimination Chamber came and it didn’t come to fruition as we had hoped. After that, I was bummed, but I understood. She actually rallied for me to have a rematch. She pitched for it and pushed for it hard and got it to happen.
“The following night, I main evented Raw for the first time and we had this match that we had worked so hard on perfecting and it’s probably one of my favorite matches I had in the company. There was so much that led up to it and so much time and such a story that I wanted to tell that I didn’t think I would be able but because Ronda is the best, she allowed me to do that. I was really grateful.
“It was bleeding into WrestleMania and she was going to main event WrestleMania. I knew there was a lot of trust in me to have a match with her, let alone have a good match. She was the star. Not to take anything away from Ronda because she caught on so fast. She was so humble and didn’t have anything to prove. She was just happy to be there and it was awesome to work with someone so excited about wrestling and inspiring,”
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