Ronda Rousey learned a lot from her rivalry with Alexa Bliss but wishes WWE had put more thought into this feud.
The former WWE star recently had an interview with
When the topic of rivalry with the Goddess of WWE came up, Rousey mentioned how she first thought that the company was just trying to make her a better wrestler by putting her with Bliss:
Well at the time I was like 'Oh well maybe they're just trying to like make me be a better wrestler and be able to sell for someone who's as big as my leg and make it convincing.' But really it just came down to the fact that Vince didn't pay any attention to us and just looked at 'Oh she sells the most merch, Ronda's hot right now, put them together.'
That was as much thought as he put into it. That started a long legacy of having to make chicken shit into chicken salad. But I learned a lot from her. She taught me like okay we're going to have to lead on like comedy and story and expressions and stuff like that to be able to get people into this.
Made Me Into A Much Better Wrestler: Ronda Rousey
Ronda Rousey defeated Alexa Bliss to win her first wrestling title Raw Women's Championship at the 2018 SummerSlam event. The two would have several more house show matches and another televised bout at Hell In A Cell before Rousey moved on to a feud with Nikki Bella.
According to the former UFC star, the ring time with Bliss taught her a lot of things and made her a much better wrestler. Though she still wishes that the company had put more thought into it:
So it definitely made me into a much better wrestler and much more diverse in the ring and not just leaning on athleticism and spots and stuff like that when I'm dealing with somebody who is not only smaller than me and can't support my weight or anything like that but she was also suffering from different kinds of injuries and things like that.
There were just a lot of things that were prohibitive and off limits. I'm used to working with people that are supposed to be able to withstand me actually trying to hurt them with my bare hands. Then I'm getting in there with somebody like 'Okay I have to make this physical and believable but also take care of her.'
So that was something completely new. I learned a whole lot from that but I wish that there was a lot more thought put into it from the very top. But they were just setting the tone of like 'Okay this is what it's going to be. We're going to throw stuff at you without putting any thought into it and you guys are going to have to put in the thought to make it work.'
After Nikki Bella, Ronda Rousey would successfully defend the Raw Women's Title against names such as Nia Jax, Sasha Banks, and Bayley. She finally dropped the title to Becky Lynch in the main event of WrestleMania 35, ending her first run with the company.
