Eric Bischoff Labels Ronda Rousey as Overrated in Wrestling Industry – Eric Bischoff shared his insights on several subjects during the most recent installment of his 83 Weeks Podcast. Among the topics discussed was Ronda Rousey, coinciding with the former WWE star’s appearance at the ROH TV tapings last Friday.
During the ROH TV tapings, Ronda Rousey participated in a tag team match based on a handshake agreement with the company. ROH is optimistic about the prospect of utilizing her in future matches if she’s inclined to continue. The decision to feature this match on ROH TV aimed to bolster subscriptions for HonorClub.
According to Bischoff, Rousey is overrated in the wrestling business and never clicked for him when she was getting the big push in WWE.
“Eh, I think she’s….I don’t want to say [she’s] overrated, but I think in terms of the professional wrestling industry, she’s overrated,” Bischoff stated. “Obviously very accomplished mixed martial artists, very accomplished in judo. Phenomenal athlete, but she never clicked for me in WWE despite a push from the gods. She got an amazing push, but there was something lacking with her, and she never clicked with me. I don’t think she really clicked with the audience. Not long after she first arrived. I think the shine kind of wore off the star pretty quickly, and I never got the feeling that she was really serious about the industry.”
Bischoff noted that he doesn’t feel that Rousey didn’t put in a full effort, but it takes more than just the performance as he thinks she never embraced wrestling. He pointed to her loss to Holly Holm in UFC as a point where she whined a little bit and didn’t handle the fallout in the media well before going to WWE. It should be noted she fought Amanda Nunes after the Holm bout and lost before going to WWE.
“I just don’t think she’s as big a name as people sometimes think she is,” Bischoff stated. “I don’t think she’d matter to a buyer. I don’t think there’s going to be a media buyer out there or a programming buyer out there, or an executive that’s going, ‘Oh, wait a minute, you got Ronda Rousey. I wasn’t too sure about this deal, but now I really want to do it.’ I don’t see that.”
Eric Bischoff Labels Ronda Rousey as Overrated in Wrestling Industry
