Ronda Rousey is a bonafide future WWE Hall of Famer who paved the way for herself to become a legit professional wrestler coming from the Mixed Martial Arts world. She is an overall three-time Women’s Champion in the WWE in her almost two-year tenure in the company. But rather than being called the Raw/Smackdown Women’s Champion, she would simply love to be the Raw/SmackDown Champion.
At Extreme Rules, Ronda Rousey captured the SmackDown Women’s Championship from Liv Morgan. This was a sweet redemption on her part to pass away the woman with a submission move who pinned her twice at Money in the Bank and then at SummerSlam. Before losing the belt, she held it up to Money in the Bank from WrestleMania Backlash in May.
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Apart from being a two-time Smackdown Women’s Champion, Ronda Rousey is also a one-time Raw Women’s Champion from August 2018 to April 2019 which was the longest reign with the title before Becky Lynch surpassed it. This reign has arguably made her one the biggest names in WWE‘s women’s division but her belief is that the women’s term isn’t necessary for her rather she’d be happy to be a WWE Superstar.
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Ronda Rousey has a problem with the term Women’s Championship in WWE
Speaking on her YouTube channel, Ronda Rousey made her feelings clear about WWE calling the titles for females the Women’s Championship. She’d like WWE to make these titles only Raw/Smackdown/NXT Championships,
“I don’t want to say ‘women’ in title anymore. And I think they are kind of resistant to taking it out. So then I was like, ‘Can I just not have to say it?’ So then that’s kind of where it’s at.” (courtesy Wrestling News)
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WWE generally tags the division to the Women’s Championship of that division to form the name. However, that’s not the case for Men’s titles as they simply are called WWE or Universal, or United States Championships.
That being said, Ronda Rousey really hopes for a day when WWE will no longer use the term Women’s for their championships. For a brief moment, in January 2020, WWE drop the ‘Women’ term from the NXT Women’s Championship. At the time, the belt was held by Rhea Ripley and she was simply referred to as the NXT Champion, the same term was also used for NXT Champion Adam Cole. However, the idea was scrapped after WrestleMania 36.
