Ronda Rousey Refers To Vince McMahon As ’80-Year-Old F*cking Pervert’ While Reflecting On WWE Run

Her experiences collaborating with Vince McMahon were delved into.

The subject of former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon came up numerous times during Ronda Rousey’s appearance on The Lapsed Fan podcast.

She opened up about her experiences working with him, and the conversation kicked off with Rousey speaking about the worked armbar she used in WWE. She stated that it was Paul ‘Triple H’ Levesque’s idea for her to do it the way she did, but she was on board with it because actually performing the move could cause damage.

Rousey remembers a segment when Vince McMahon wanted her to continuously put Becky Lynch in armbars. Rousey said Nia Jax was not pleased because they had spent the last year building up Rousey’s armbar finisher. Rousey responded to Jax by saying it was not her call, and that she’s an avatar for an ’80-year-old pervert.’

“That was actually Triple H that came up with that, as being the mock armbar finisher. But, it’s also, like, you could see people laying back and they’re arching on the arm and they’re holding it straight and they’re holding it right from the — if you actually took it, it would break.

Yes (you can blame Triple H for the bent armbar). But how do you really — the one time I did do it when I leaned back on it straight was me and Becky (Lynch) … I think it was my heel turn or whatever and I felt like it had much more impact then. But, freakin’ Vince (McMahon) liked it so much, he was like, ‘Armbar her again! Armbar her again! Armbar her again!’… I know when Nia Jax is all pissed at me afterward. She was like, ‘We spent all year selling the hell out of this armbar and you just did three of ‘em to Becky like it was nothing.’ I’m like, ‘Dude, I’m like an avatar for a f*cking 80-year-old f*cking pervert on the phone, alright? I have no say in this. What are we supposed to do?’”

She further spoke about her run(s) under Vince McMahon. Rousey stated that Paul Heyman was the Vince whisperer when it came to getting things through. Rousey then mentioned her ‘I Quit’ match with Charlotte Flair from WrestleMania Backlash 2022 and said their match plans had only been finalized 30 minutes before going out.

“It’s just an absolute sh*tshow (working under Vince McMahon regime). There was no collaboration. It was basically, like, you would spend so much time and effort thinking about the story and how you could make it better and they wouldn’t talk to you at all and they would spend like five minutes thinking about it the night before, and then throw you a version of it that was a complete sh*tshow, and it wasn’t a collaboration. It was like a negotiation to try to get it to not suck as much as possible, and then you go out there and it’s like, the final iteration of you trying to be, ‘Can this be changed? Can this be changed?’ How can I make this not absolutely f*cking suck? And then, you go out there and you do something that you have not even been able to practice and you don’t even really believe in and that’s what’s coming across, and so they were only, like, spending a little bit of time on The Bloodline because (Paul) Heyman was the head of all of that and he was like the Vince-whisperer of being able to get sh*t through, and it shows. It shows that, oh, we’re gonna spend some time and effort on this and f*ck everybody else and we’re just gonna fly on the seat of our pants and that’s why they’re just doing the same rehash sh*t over and over and over again because that was just what Vince came up with the night before, you know? And it was just all bottlenecked through there and just really took the funnest thing that is such a great time when you’re out there with your friends and you’re doing something you really believe in. There was some flashes in the pan. He had some flashes of brilliance and there’s some days that we’d be able to hammer through something good, somehow be able to pull it off with no time to rehearse it. Like me and Charlotte’s ‘I Quit’ match, we didn’t have the match agreed upon when it was until 30 minutes before and I had 30 minutes to memorize it without even being able to be out there to practice it.”

Rousey was asked if McMahon ever said anything to her that caught her off guard. She stated that she did not care if he did or didn’t.

She feels McMahon said what he needed to say to get Rousey out of the room, but would do ‘shiesty’ and ‘carny’ things behind her back. She thinks McMahon knew if he said those things directly to her, he would have heard something back. Rousey said working with McMahon was a complete 180 from working with UFC CEO Dana White, who she feels is very straightforward.

“No. I just kind of didn’t give a f*ck (if Vince McMahon said or did something that caught me off guard) … He was just, like, a roundabout dick. But, yeah, I think if he actually said some sh*t to my face, he would have got something back. I think he was aware of that. So it was more, like, shiesty, carny sh*t, which I was used to. Working with Dana (White), who was like the most straightforward person ever and then, Vince would just say whatever he had to say to get me out of the room and then do some shiesty, carny sh*t after that and I’m like, ‘The f*ck!?’ It just got to a point where I’m like, I can’t work with people who aren’t straightforward.”

There were other comments made by Rousey about her time in WWE, specifically about her program with Alexa Bliss. Head over to this link for more on that.

If the quotes in this article are used, please credit The Lapsed Fan with an H/T to Fightful for the transcriptions.