Over the past few months, Ronda Rousey has been on a mission to discuss her true feelings about WWE, much of which are not very good at all, but did you know there were members of WWE who weren't particularly excited about the “Baddest Woman on the Planet” working in WWE either, and not just for her booking decisions like refusing to tap out at the end of WrestleMania 35?
That's right, discussing his experience working with Rousey on Unlocking the Cage, Jimmy Smith revealed that he isn't the biggest fan of the UFC legend, as she isn't one to own up to her flaws while still demanding acknowledgment for her successes.
“I've never been a religious person. One of the things I've always said about God. He gets all the credit and none of the blame. That's what Ronda Rousey wants. All the credit, none of the blame,” Jimmy Smith explained on Unlocking the Cage via 411 Mania. ‘”I want credit for all of my wins. My losses, I had CTE. I had this. I had that. I'm greatest to ever do it, but when it didn't work, it was so and so and so and never me.' She never gives credit to the people who actually beat her. The idea that ‘I left MMA and went to WWE because I had concussion problems,' makes no sense. She didn't go to tennis. She went to the WWE. The idea: ‘I was having problems and neurological damage.' I'm sure on every form you filled out, in all the paperwork, you acknowledged you had neurological damage, right? Sure. Sure, you did.”
Whoa, interesting stuff, right? Well, wait, it gets even more interesting, as Smith had plenty more to say about Rousey in WWE and how other members behind the scenes felt about her, too.
Jimmy Smith reveals how unpopular Ronda Rousey was backstage.
Continuing his comments on Unlocking the Cage, Jimmy Smith reveals what some of the backstage employees told him about working with Ronda Rousey backstage, with most of it being very damaging for the multi-time champion.
“If you haven't noticed, I don't talk a lot out of school. I don't talk about things behind the scenes, do I? Behind the scenes WWE, behind the scenes UFC, I don't do that. Let me let you in on something, Ronda, if you're listening, the people behind the scenes; camera people, audio people, the people you can push around and bully and talk down to, can't stand your f**king a**. Everybody behind the scenes that had to put a mic on Ronda Rousey couldn't stand her. I said, ‘Why?' They said, ‘She was a b**ch to us from the moment she sat down to the moment she got up.' Like it's our fault that she has to do this interview to hype something or her next fight. ‘She's miserable, she's mean to us, and we can't stand her.' They were cheering when she got knocked out. This is what I was told. Those are the people you can be mean to and rude to, and they can't fight back. Those people couldn't stand Ronda Rousey. Don't sit here and tell me that you're the victim when the poor guy sitting behind the camera is doing his job gets s**t on by you, and you're mean to the person asking you questions when we're hyping your fight. Don't give me this victim s**t. Don't waste my time with it,” Jimmy Smith explained.
“I wasn't there. I wasn't at the UFC while she was fighting. I didn't bring it up. I'm sitting around with a group of cameramen, sound guys, we're just shooting the s**t. People who plug in the cable and make s**t work, and Ronda Rousey came up. To a man, they all went, ‘She was a miserable person. She was mean to everybody.' I went, ‘Alright.' Folks, people don't make that up. They aren't scoring points with me. I met her one time. Give me a break with this grievance crap. They all went, ‘she was an insufferable monster to us.' How you treat those people is who you are. That, to me, reveals what kind of person you are. She didn't have one defender. She didn't have one person who went, ‘She was alright.' Everyone was like, ‘She was horrible. We were thrilled when she got crushed.'”
Could Smith have some bad information? Potentially so. Are there WWE employees who really liked Rousey? That's likely, too, but when enough people complain about a performer that a commentator learns about it? Well, there might be some fire behind that smoke and some previous decisions that Rousey needs to think about regarding her own career, too.
