Ronda Rousey on new WWE regime: ‘Anyone’s better than Vince McMahon’

With Vince McMahon gone from WWE, Ronda Rousey thinks the company can only improve.

Shakiel Mahjouri of CBS Sports recently interviewed Rousey, asking her if she thinks the new WWE regime can make the company a better place for wrestlers than it was under McMahon. Rousey expressed that she enjoyed working for Paul “Triple H” Levesque and hopes the women’s division gets a more equal share of WWE television time with him in charge of creative.

“Well, I think anyone’s better than Vince McMahon. The only place you can go is up [laughs],” Rousey said. “I really enjoy Triple H and working with him. And honestly, I haven’t been watching, but I saw something from [Natalya] saying that they had a card recently that had just as many women on it as the men. And that’s just what I would really like to see, the women equally represented with not just matches on the card, but time on the show. I feel there’s no place they could go but up. And I’m really, really happy for all the women that are still there and thriving under the new regime.”

McMahon resigned from WWE and its parent company TKO Group Holdings this January following the lawsuit that was filed against him by former WWE employee Janel Grant. McMahon, WWE, and John Laurinaitis are listed as defendants in the suit. It accuses McMahon of physical and emotional abuse, sexual assault, and sex trafficking.

The lawsuit has been put on pause for six months per a request from the Department of Justice as it conducts an investigation regarding McMahon.

Rousey has been gone from WWE since SummerSlam 2023. In past interviews, Rousey said she doubts that she’ll ever return and would only do so if things “drastically change” with how WWE is run.

Currently, Rousey is focusing on building her career as an author. She’s releasing her first graphic novel and working on the screenplay for a Netflix film about her life.