WWEhas suspended wrestlerRonda Rouseyindefinitely after she attacked an official at WWE SummerSlam.
At the SummerSlam event in Nashville Saturday, Rousey, 35, lost the women’s title match to Liv Morgan and appeared to take issue with referee Dan Engler’s apparent failure to notice Morgan, 28, tapping out in the immediate aftermath of the match,according to the WWE.
“Rousey’s going to be fined, or perhaps worse,” a WWE broadcaster speculated immediately as the incident played out in front of the crowd at Nissan Stadium.
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On Tuesday, the WWE releasedan official statementnoting that Rousey “has been fined an undisclosed amount and will be suspended.”
“An irate Rousey attacked the official after her SmackDown Women’s Title Match, claiming he missed Liv Morgan tapping out to the Armbar while he counted the pinfall,” the company wrote in their statement.
Ronda Rousey.Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports/USA Today Network/Sipa USA
As a result of Rousey’s suspension, the WWE said in its statement that she will not appear on Friday Night SmackDown this coming week.
In professional wrestling, performers will often stage a pre-planned event that will result in a suspension to take time off.
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On Monday, Rousey posted a series of photos from her match against Morgan to Instagram and called out the WWE withinthe post’s caption.
“Hey@wweif you guys could stop screwing me to put over your golden girls at every major ppv that’d be greaaaaaat,” Rousey wrote.
“@RondaRouseydeserves justice.#SummerSlam@wwe,” Miller wrote in the post.
This is not the first time the WWE has suspended Rousey for attacking an official.
In June 2018, the company suspended Rousey fromMonday Night RAWfor 30 days in a storyline in which she attacked wrestlerAlexa Bliss, Raw general manager and retired wrestler Kurt Angle as well as multiple referees, according to theWWEat the time.
Rousey, who competed in judo at the 2008Summer Olympicsand worked as a professional mixed martial arts fighter in the Ultimate Fighting Championship in the 2010s, welcomed daughterLa’akea Makalapuaokalanipō(aka Pō) with husband Travis Browne in September 2021.
Rousey and Browne, who is also an MMA fighter, gotmarried in Browne’s native Hawaii in August 2017.
source: people.com
