In recent weeks, former UFC star Ronda Rousey has been promoting her new memoir, which covers her time with WWE in great detail. During this she has revealed that she intensely disliked her time working for the company, especially anything that involved Vince McMahon. And now, following the official release of her book, an excerpt has revealed how McMahon reacted when she wanted to drop the word “Women’s” from the name of her SmackDown Championship.
“’Vince noted you dropped ‘women’s,” one of the producers mentioned to me one night. ‘When the men start calling it a men’s title, I’ll start calling it a women’s,’ I said. I raised the issue with Triple H. If the men didn’t need to say, ‘This is for the Men’s Intercontinental Championship,’ why did we have to call it ‘The Women’s SmackDown Title?’
‘Good point,’ he said. He later told me he had mentioned it to Vince, who was appalled. ‘Get out of here with that woke bullsh*t,’ Vince had told him. ‘We’re going to call it the women’s title because they’re f*cking women.’”
Ronda RouseyIn 2020, Becky Lynch also attempted to get WWE to drop the term “Women’s” from its vocabulary, saying on FS1’s Backstage that it was “starting to hold us back.” Subsequently, NXT dropped the gender-specific name of the title Rhea Ripley held at the time. However, it wouldn’t last long, and considering it meant there were two championships with the exact same name for a period, it was probably for the best in that instance.
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