Ronda Rousey Responds To Critics Saying She 'Cut In Line' In Wrestling

TheSportster

By Jim Parsons

Published Apr 28, 2018

Ronda Rousey to the Los Angeles Times, "I have had a very unorthodox path to where I am, and some people think of that as cutting in line."

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As noted in an article by Lance Pugmire in the Los Angeles Times, Ronda Rousey talked with the director of her new film Mile 22, Peter Berg, and discussed life as a former MMA fighter, as well as her recent start in WWE and her match at WrestleMania 34.

One of the topics that came up during that conversation was how she transitioned from UFC to WWE, whether or not it was difficult and if she took the "typical" route most stars take when breaking into the professional wrestling business.

Rousey confessed, "I expected that I was being perceived as an outsider and rejected from the beginning... There is a certain way that people expect you to come up in the industry and I have had a very unorthodox path to where I am, and some people think of that as cutting in line." She doesn't believe she did so but if she did, there was a pretty good reason. While Rousey did spend some time at WWE's Performance Centre in Florida, part of that path might have included WWE's training brand NXT — a brand Rousey skipped over altogether. From there, she was never really asked to do house shows (WWE's name for live events), instead pushed into the spotlight of the company's biggest show of the year. While she deserves that spot based on her drawing power, it wasn't always the easiest pill for the other female competitors in WWE to swallow. Rousey understood but added there was another reason WWE sort of threw her into the fire. The constant punishment she took as an MMA fighter took time off her career. She explained, "Unfortunately, I don't have the miles on the body to go through the long and arduous path, I just hit the ground running, learning on a big stage instead of the … smaller shows." While Rousey was known for quick victories and her MMA career only lasted a few years, it surely took a physical toll and she may have a point. [caption id="attachment_618580" align="aligncenter" width="590"]

via Daily Express[/caption] Rousey wasn't a part of The Greatest Royal Rumble in Saudi Arabia but she is still one of the company's current big draws and her movie Mile 22 will only add to her appeal for fans in the WWE Universe and outsiders to wrestling who are drawn to the industry because of her crossover appeal.