Since leaving WWE, Ronda Rousey hasn't shied away from sharing her brutally honest thoughts on the time she spent in the company. The Baddest Woman on the Planet has no love for Vince McMahon but remains a fan of Triple H and Stephanie McMahon.
In a new interview with Chris Van Vliet, Rousey said she's "heard [WWE is] a lot better" with The Game in charge and admitted that having children has closed the door on her stepping back into the ring on a permanent basis.
"I got babies, I can’t be taking them on the road," Rousey admitted. "I did it for a little bit with one, I can’t do that with two. It was hard on my husband for us not all to be there all the time. I just don’t think I can ask them to sacrifice that anymore."
It was McMahon who largely soured her on WWE and she later explained why the disgraced former Chairman's opinion doesn't and never did matter to her.
"I don’t give a sh*t about that. I didn’t really give a f*ck what Vince thought, to be honest. I just wanted to have a great match. Sometimes I felt like instead of enabling us to have a great match, we were fighting against him in order to have a great match...once the music hit, I was like, 'F*ck you, we’re gonna have a great time.'"
"Then we come back, and then I come back to the curtain. I’m like, 'F*ck you, I’m going to my baby. I don’t want to hear sh*t unless you actually have a plan for next week, which you don’t. You don’t have a f*cking plan.' I’m trying to get any information all week long, and then no one’s gonna tell me sh*t until I get to the arena, and I’m still not gonna hear anything for hours."
Rousey's first WWE run ended with a WrestleMania main event which saw her pinned by Becky Lynch. It was an odd, somewhat underwhelming finish to the match and one which has proven somewhat controversial since.
Lynch has suggested Rousey deliberately botched the pin but she denies that and blames WWE for not picking up on what ended up being a great way to set up an eventual rematch (which never happened).
"I didn’t think my shoulders were flat on the ground, so I was trying to scoot to get my shoulders flat because it’s so f*cking loud I can’t hear anything. But that’s the difference between a match that got thrown together the night before and the debut match, which is a match that had been put together over weeks with tons of support and practice and opinions and everything like that. Why were we putting a whole year into promoting and building this match, and then it’s just thrown together at the last second? We were still figuring it out when we were at the venue, and that’s what a lack of practice and rehearsal does."
"I wanted to use that. I wanted to use that as, okay, this is how we lead into the next one. We bring it up on the Tron and say ‘You never got me, this is bullsh*t. The referees are all in your pocket…’ And put that into the next, you know, the singles between me and Becky that everybody wanted that got taken away. No, no, no [it wasn't intentional]. I didn’t think my shoulders were flush. I was trying to flatten out. But I think that we could have used it and kept it going, but they never let us."
You can watch the full interview with Rousey in the player below.