Ronda Rousey On What Vince McMahon Said After Her RAW Promo, Being “Super Defensive” To WWE Fans

Ronda Rousey released the latest episode of her “Ronda On The Road” series on YouTube today.

The episode features Rousey discussing her recent return to WWE at the Royal Rumble, interactions with Paul Heyman and WWE Chairman & CEO Vince McMahon, and more.

Rousey noted that when she last left WWE and walked out of WrestleMania 35, she was dealing with a shattered knuckle and everyone was booing her out of the stadium. She thought to herself, “F these people” and she couldn’t wait to go home. Rousey pointed to how when she left WWE, she’d been getting booed out of arenas for months, and said one of the most uncomfortable and disingenuous feelings she’s ever felt was when she had to be a babyface and the crowd was still being hostile, and she couldn’t tell them exactly how she felt.

Rousey said she felt stuck between staying true to herself and telling people to “go f–k themselves” or respecting how WWE Chairman & CEO Vince McMahon had done so much for her, and to go against what he wanted her to do. She added that she loved it when she finally got the chance to turn heel because she felt like she got to be herself.

Rousey then returned at The Rumble and felt “super defensive” but misunderstood the crowd reaction at first. She also revealed how she felt going into the RAW segment with RAW Women’s Champion Becky Lynch the next night.

“I really missed wrestling, I did. And I wanted to come back. I knew I was coming back, or I thought I did, to the animosity that I left,” Rousey said. “So I came out feeling super defensive from the beginning. At the Rumble, it wasn’t like that — but I just assumed the reaction was from the surprise. So coming out to Raw and Becky was gonna be there, I was like, ‘Okay, this is when they’re going to troll on me the most. This is when they’re going to try and like chant ‘Becky’ every single time I open my mouth. This is the time they’re going to start like screaming the most hurtful things they…