MJF reacts sarcastically to Ronda Rousey’s complaints about WWE booking

Ronda Rousey has caused a lot of buzz after her recent appearance on The Lapsed Fan Podcast. In it, the former Raw and SmackDown champion criticized the treatment she received from WWE, who did not grant her biggest wish: to compete against The Four Horsewomen with her teammates Marina Shafir, Jessamyn Duke, and Shayna Baszler.

Furthermore, Ronda also criticized having to compete with Alexa Bliss just because she was having the best merchandise sales at that time. "The fact that they made me fight against Alexa Bliss was completely ridiculous, and do you want to know why they matched me up against Alexa Bliss? Because she had the highest merchandise sales at that time… What the hell!? Is that their criterion for making decisions?", Rousey said in the interview.

MJF, one of the most prominent talents in the professional wrestling business, could not stay silent after reading Ronda's comments, and responded as follows on his X account. "It's almost as if professional wrestling, like any professional sport, operates as a business. A damn madness," wrote the AEW wrestler in an ironic tone.

WWE is one of the wrestling companies that gives the most importance to the merchandise market. The sale of t-shirts, replica belts, and collectible figures, among many other products, not only represents a profit boost, but also serves to measure the popularity of its superstars. Jey Uso, Cody Rhodes, or John Cena are good examples of this, being the talents that sell the most at the moment.

On the other hand, Ronda Rousey seems to have put an end to her wrestling career, as she hinted in this same interview. A career with highs and lows, with a very prominent first stage, where she helped bring greater visibility to a female division in full revolution, and a second stage characterized by the former champion's discomfort with the fans, who had stopped cheering for her.