WWE Raw Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey was recently a guest on the PWI Podcast. Rousey talked about being ranked number one on the PWI ‘Women’s 100’ list, her opportunity in WWE, and her schedule with the promotion. Here are the highlights:
If she deserves her ranking on the PWI ‘Women’s 100’: “That’s absolutely incredible. I don’t really know how to react to that! I mean, I really appreciate it. I don’t know how much I deserve it, but wow! Thank you!” Rousey added, “it [has] been amazing. It [has] been a dream come true and I’m at a loss for words, but I’m not an articulate person.”
Realizing the opportunity she has with WWE:Â “I’m very aware of how privileged I’ve been from lot of people who worked their entire lives just to get somebody to take one look at them. And from day one, I don’t know anything and I have, like, Triple H telling me how to tie my shoe.
“Like, Triple H taught me how to tie my boots! Like, that is insane.” Rousey explained, “I think it would be spitting in the face of every woman that would want this opportunity to not take full advantage of it.”
Her WWE schedule:Â “Being on the road and everything has given me a lot more respect for what everybody else does.” Rousey said, “I mean, honestly, when I came into this, I thought everybody just wrestled once a week!
“I just thought they showed up at RAW or SmackDown [Live] and that was it. I didn’t even know that there were live shows throughout the week! I mean, and these people just go nonstop. Like, I have nowhere near the schedule that everybody else has. Like, if I’m on a week of live shows, it takes me a week to recover from it. If anything, I have the super easy tourist version.
“Like, I have nothing to complain about! I do whatever I can to perform whenever they need me to perform, but I have a much easier schedule than everybody else.”
H/T Wrestling Inc. for the transcriptions
