Reserving a legit fighter like Ronda Rousey towards WWE’s roster of sports activities entertainers was all the time going to be a problem. After a powerful WrestleMania 34 debut by which she teamed up with Kurt Angle towards Triple H and Stephanie McMahon the place she got here out wanting like a killer, the powers-that-be made the head-scratching choice to pit Rousey towards the smallest lady on the roster. On “Ring the Belle,” Rousey mirrored on her early feud with Alexa Bliss, who was coping with legit accidents on the time.
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“On the time I used to be like, oh, properly, perhaps they’re simply making an attempt to make me be a greater wrestler, and make me promote for somebody who’s as large as my leg and make it convincing,” Rousey mentioned. “And actually it simply got here all the way down to the truth that Vince did not pay any consideration to us and simply checked out, ‘Oh, [Alexa] sells probably the most merch, Ronda’s scorching proper now, put ’em collectively.’ And that was as a lot thought as he put into it.”
Realism could not have been an essential side of this explicit feud, however Rousey mentioned working with the diminutive Bliss taught her one other important part of wrestling: taking good care of your opponent.
“It positively made me right into a a lot better wrestler and way more various within the ring, and never simply leaning on athleticism and spots and stuff… she was additionally affected by completely different sorts of accidents and issues like that,” Rousey mentioned. “I am used to working with folks that — they’re supposed to face up to me truly making an attempt to harm them with my naked fingers. After which I am in there with any individual, like, okay, I should make this bodily and plausible, but in addition like, handle her. In order that was one thing utterly new, and I realized a complete lot from that.”
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Regardless of Rousey’s claims of studying to work safely, Bliss suffered two concussions throughout their feud, inflicting her to overlook the WWE Evolution pay-per-view.
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