WWE SmackDown star and the current WWE SmackDown Women’s champion Ronda Rousey who is also a former WWE Raw Women’s champion and the winner of women’s Royal Rumble match of 2022 recently looked back at calling professional wrestling fake in 2020.
Ronda Rousey made her WWE debut back in 2018 during the Royal Rumble pay per view event after being inaugural women’s Royal Rumble match. Even though her first WWE appearance dated back to Wrestlemania 31 which was the segment including the Rock Triple H and Stephanie McMahon.
Ronda Rousey Looks Back At Calling Wrestling Fake In 2020
Soon after making her WWE debut, she won the WWE Raw Women’s Championship after she defeated Alexa Bliss at the SummerSlam pay per view event of the same year. She remained undefeated until WrestleMania 35 where she featured on the first ever women’s WrestleMania main event and lost for the first time in WWE.
After losing at WrestleMania 35, she remained out of WWE for nearly 3 years and she finally returned during the Royal Rumble match of 2022 as a surprise entrant. She won the Royal Rumble match and challenged Charlotte Flair for the WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship.
She lost to Charlotte at WrestleMania 38 but defeated her at WrestleMania Backlash in an I Quit match to win the WWE SmackDown women’s Championship. She is currently holding the WWE SmackDown women’s Championship pretty strongly. We hope to see her for a long time in WWE.
Ronda Rousey who is also a former WWE Raw Women’s champion and the winner of women’s Royal Rumble match of 2022 recently spoke to Kurt Angle on The Kurt Angle Show where she looked back at calling professional wrestling fake in 2020. She said;
“It really does help a lot,” Rousey said of pro wrestling, “and I don’t think pro wrestlers understand how much that it helps because a lot of times I’ll hear people be so offended that like, ‘How dare you call this fake! There’s no fake way to go through a table,’” Rousey continued, “or ‘This injury is real.’ And I’m like, ‘You guys, it’s not like the physical toll that makes something real.’”
“The injuries don’t enter into your mind. It’s the anxiety and uncertainty of the result,” that makes the situation real, as opposed to the predetermined outcome of a pro-wrestling match.
“Imagine if you didn’t win that gold medal, Kurt, and what that would have done to you for the rest of your life. That is what makes it real to me.”
“Injuries, I don’t care. People get injured all the time playing ‘Pirates of Penzance,’” Rousey said, emphasizing the theatrical nature of her current profession, while also acknowledging the dangers of everyday life. “There’s a lot of difficult, physical things out there that the realism to me is that extreme anxiety.”
Quotes via Wrestling Inc