Ronda Rousey thinks WWE should clean house.
Since leaving WWE in the fall of 2023, the multi-time WWE Women’s Champion has been outspoken about her opinion of Vince McMahon and how the company has handled certain things in light of the Janel Grant lawsuit.
She recently sat down and spoke with Steven Bartlett of The Diary of a CEO where she once again claimed that McMahon was still calling shots through Bruce Prichard during his initial “hiatus” from the company.
“I mean supposedly, he’s out now because they caught him paying company funds so he could shit on some girl’s head in the office and do a threesome with her and Johnny Laurinaitis,” Rousey said. “But his cronies are still there. So when that stuff started coming out and Vince was gone before, he was still basically calling it in and running the company.
“But Bruce Prichard, who’s there now, who’s like the head of creative or whatever title they gave him, is basically just taking orders from Vince and still running the company through him. So when Vince resigned formally because of all these sexual allegations and stuff that was coming out, he was still running the company informally, and I think he still is to this day.”
‘He’s Gotta Clean House of Vince’s Cronies’
Rousey noted that she still loves the girls in the locker room, but she ultimately still takes issue with people at the top. Because of that, she thinks TKO CEO Ari Emanuel should let go of anyone under McMahon’s influence.
“Steph and Triple H, I think they’re honestly doing their best,” Rousey said. “But I mean, I think that Vince McMahon just created a fundamentally sick environment, and I think if Ari Emanuel is gonna be able to actually make this multi-billion dollar dysfunctional organization into one that functions, he’s gotta clean out all of Vince’s cronies. He’s gotta completely clean house and remove Vince’s influence completely.
“No one’s asking me, but that’s just what I experienced when Vince was gone. He was still running the show through people that he’d hired in the past, Bruce Prichard being number one of them. John Laurinaitis got cut because of the scandal. Bruce Prichard, literally I never heard him say a single one of his own opinions. He’d only say, ‘Vince says this, Vince says that. Vince, Vince, Vince.’ So he’s literally just, I called him Vince’s avatar. That’s basically what he is.”
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