{"id":48436,"date":"2022-02-07T23:02:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T04:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48436"},"modified":"2022-02-09T23:02:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T04:02:29","slug":"i-hope-rousey-gets-owned-by-the-fans-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48436","title":{"rendered":"I hope Rousey gets owned by the fans again"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As good as Ronda Rousey was in the Octagon, I\u2019ve never really been sold on Ronda Rousey the professional wrestler.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I\u2019m the only wrestling fan that kind of thinks that she\u2019s more or less a wrestling tourist cashing in on her name value, and using professional wrestling to pad her bank account, because for some reason they\u2019re so willing to give her tons of money.\u00a0 And as good of a MMA fighter she might have been, even to this day she\u2019s still putrid inside the ring.<\/span><\/p>\n

After reading this story<\/a> about how WWE heads needed to give her a talking to about cutting promos, most notably the part where she\u2019s the face in this feud with Charlotte Flair, and she needs to act like a heel, especially to the fans, because the formula of wrestling is the timeless tale of good guy versus bad guy, and it doesn\u2019t really work out when a Wrestlemania match is going to be two assholes against each other, it was just another reminder of how much she doesn\u2019t get the wrestling industry from the storytelling perspective either.<\/span><\/p>\n

Back in 2018, Rousey and Charlotte had a match at Survivor Series, which was pretty decent because Charlotte is basically the greatest female wrestler ever, and Rousey was smart enough to let herself get carried.\u00a0 But the most memorable part of the match was when Charlotte got herself disqualified by abruptly attacking Rousey with a weapon; but despite the fact that at the time, Rousey was built as a heroic face, while Charlotte was toeing the line as a heel, the dastardly actions by Charlotte were met with explosive cheers from the crowd.\u00a0 Throughout the match, Rousey was getting somewhat of a lukewarm reception, but when Charlotte went ballistic on her, the line in the sand was pretty drawn \u2013 the fans had turned on Rousey.<\/span><\/p>\n

The thing is, Rousey being so green to the wrestling industry, had no earthly idea how to handle it.\u00a0 After the match was over, Rousey looked at the crowd with a shocked and appalled look on her face as boos rained down on her.\u00a0 There was actually a moment where the cameras caught her jawing with a fan, claiming that he was no man, and the whole televised walk to the back was awkward and kind of painful to watch.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s wrestling fans don\u2019t like to be told what to do, which is why they\u2019re so apt to turn on wrestlers in such dynamic manners from time to time.\u00a0 And the fans at a Survivor Series, which is a tier-1 event for the WWE, tends to draw more hardcore fans, and these are the ones that tend to understand their power as a collective, and know they can fuck with the talent if they work together, and that\u2019s basically what happened with when they turned on Rousey.\u00a0 And once it\u2019s seen on television, it becomes the truth to all casual fans and before you know it, Rousey is hated by all fans from then on, and next thing you know, she\u2019s jobbing out to Becky Lynch at Wrestlemania to the delight of the fans and then vanishing from the WWE for like, three years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, Rousey is back, and the WWE machine is once again trying to push her as a face.\u00a0 But the aforementioned promo she cut, mostly on the fans, clearly indicates that she hasn\u2019t forgotten how she was treated by the fans three years ago, and combined with all her shoot-not-shoot remarks about how much she hates wrestling fans, it clear her relationship status with the industry is probably best described as, it\u2019s complicated<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

What I\u2019m really hoping for is that come Wrestlemania, when Rousey faces Charlotte for the blue Women\u2019s Championship, I hope that the fans turn on her again.\u00a0 Not before, not after, but during the match against Charlotte.\u00a0 Charlotte has been trying to nurture the arrogant heel persona over the last two years and frankly, getting paired against Rousey could be the worst thing to happen to her character, if the smarky fans that show up at Wrestlemania decide to deploy another heel turn on Rousey again.<\/span><\/p>\n

But I\u2019m all for it, and hope that it happens again. \u00a0I\u2019m not sold on Rousey the professional wrestler, and I would be over the moon to see the fans go complete dark side on her again, and see how she reacts to it happening at Wrestlemania of all places.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t change the fact that she\u2019s probably going to win the blet because a big name like Rousey isn\u2019t brought in to job, but I just hope the fans definitely let her know that they recognize someone who respects the business, and they\u2019ll definitely let anyone else know what they think about them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As good as Ronda Rousey was in the Octagon, I\u2019ve never really been sold on Ronda Rousey the professional wrestler.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I\u2019m the only wrestling fan that kind of thinks that she\u2019s more or less a wrestling tourist cashing in on her name value, and using professional wrestling to pad her bank account, … Continue reading I hope Rousey gets owned by the fans again<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,52,54,55],"class_list":["post-48436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-observations","tag-owned","tag-wrestling","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48438,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48436\/revisions\/48438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}