Ronda Rousey loves blurring the line between what’s real or not.
Before her match with Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair at WrestleMania 35, Ronda Rousey made some controversial comments on her YouTube channel. The former WWE Women’s Champion called wrestling “scripted” and “not real”, which many found upsetting.
Ronda Rousey spoke about these comments on Insight with Chris Van Vliet. The former UFC Star revealed that she burst out laughing after that take, claiming she loves to “blur the lines” of kayfabe on her blog.
She added that she wanted to be a hated heel, and wanted people to actually hate her rather than just consider her a good heel.
““The second that we cut we all burst out laughing. The second that I cut, laughing our asses off, which I loved blurring that line of what’s kayfabe and what’s not, what’s real, what’s not, and what’s making what’s happening behind the scenes supposedly candidly being part of the show.”
“That was me trying on the sidelines to push a story and put time into it that the company wasn’t. So many people are trying to be the cool guy heel. They’re like I want to be the heel, but I want everyone to actually like me for it. I’m like, No, man. I want people to feel like I am an existential threat to what they love and to get them lost into it, have a passionate feeling about it, have people that disagree and think that it’s all work, and have it be a big disagreement.”
“Because if everybody agrees about you, the discussion is over. If you make yourself a topic of discussion, you need to be hard to pin down. So, because I didn’t feel like I was getting that support from the company to tell that story, I felt like I had to take it into my own hands and blur that line with those videos. It’s so funny, because when people can’t tell when you’re in character and when you’re not, I feel like that’s where the real art is.”
Ronda Rousey On Fans Disliking Her As A Person
Ronda Rousey continued, speaking about fans potentially disliking her as a person, rather than her character.
The former UFC star revealed that she took inspiration from “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, and didn’t care about getting cheers. She just wanted to get reactions from the fans as a heel, but not pandering for cheers.
“Well, here’s the thing, before they had an opinion about me, I didn’t give a sh*t about anything they thought about anything. Why should I suddenly care now that they have an opinion about me? The point is I’m here to entertain you. Roddy Piper, his job was to make people feel amazing about him getting beat. I never wanted to be a face. They always would force me to be a face and I was always wanting to be the heel. Because I don’t like trying to placate for cheers, I love to get the reaction and the people like it great, I am pretty freaking amazing. But yeah, trying to pander for cheers and stuff like that. It was never for me.”
