Ronda Rousey lashes out on 'dismally shallow' WWE roster after tag team championship win

Shortly after being crowned as WWE women’s tag team champions with Shayna Baszler, Ronda Rousey aimed shots at WWE, highlighting lack of competition in women’s division at promotion. This comes months after former UFC champion criticized promotion for way y booked matches involving women superstars. Meanwhile, speaking to New York Post after winning tag team titles on Raw, Rousey complained about how or teams in match were t on level of Rousey and Baszler.

“Well, lack of competition is really problem. I mean, we want to be most active champions out re. I want to be able to defend this title every week and even twice a week on both SmackDown and Raw. But with how dismally shallow women’s division is right w, re’s t eugh women around here to keep us busy for a month. And so that’s biggest challenge that we have is to get this company to actually care and invest into this tag division,” said Ronda Rousey.

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Rousey returned to WWE in 2021, following a two-year hiatus, during which she also had a baby. This was in aftermath of Covid-19 pandemic, which saw WWE drop several female superstars in an effort to man finances better. While top-level storylines have become bigger in recent past, tag team scene has remained largely neglected. 

' entire women’s division just got stripped clean': Ronda Rousey

“It was like entire women’s division just got stripped clean. And w we’re women that are women that are left trying to piece toger, you kw, stories and a division, a tag division with around 10 women or even less on each roster. I mean, we’re trying best that we can to make chicken shit into chicken salad, and we made some amazing chicken salad [Monday night],” Rousey told New York Post.

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Earlier on March 22, Mercedes Varnado popularly kwn as Sasha Banks, and her teammate ami decided to walk off during taping of Monday Night Raw due to creative differences. ir move saw WWE stripping both superstars of ir tag team championship titles, before ultimately handing m suspensions.  However, with Triple H bolstering women’s roster with new talents, issues highlighted by Rousey are expected to be resolved soon.