Ronda Rousey is in possession of a WWE Title again at the moment, beating Liv Morgan for the SmackDown Women's Championship at Extreme Rules. Shortly after becoming champion again, The Rowdy One questioned why the word women's needs to be in WWE's title names at all. Rousey dislikes the word's inclusion so much that she has spoken to WWE about removing it.
Madusa Doesn't Like The Idea
Whoever Rousey spoke to about making that happen clearly isn't the only party resistant to it becoming an official change moving forward. Madusa was a guest on The A2theK Wrestling Show this week, during which she discussed Rousey's request for the word women's to be dropped from the Raw and SmackDown Titles. Turns out the Hall of Famer isn't a fan of the idea.
“Ronda Rousey came out saying, ‘I’m taking the name Women’s out of the title.’ I’m like, ‘what the fuck for?’,” Madusa said. “Does that mean then it’s for men and women? Is it intergender now? I’m confused, but I understand what she’s trying to say.” The word women's has been included in championship names ever since they were introduced to WWE, dating back to before Madusa threw one in the bin on WCW TV.
Making The Titles Distinct
There are certainly merits to both sides of the argument here. WWE has made great strides to get men's and women's wrestling on a level playing field over the course of the last half a decade or more. The titles even have the brand names in there which negates Madusa's argument somewhat. There aren't Raw and SmackDown Titles, so there would be no confusion with anything else that already exists.
Just because the word women's has been removed also doesn't mean fans will then be confused over who can compete for them. Roman Reigns' titles don't have the word men's in them, but everyone knows only men can compete for them. In Madusa's defense, dropping the word women's from a title name was briefly trialed in NXT. However, since that then resulted in there being two NXT Titles, the decision was quickly reversed.
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