UFC Hall of Famer and top WWE Star Ronda Rousey took to an episode of her video gaming stream to talk about how the WWE fans care more about the wrestlers than the UFC fans care about the fighters. Ronda Rousey also said that the UFC fans have much less respect for the veterans and legends of their great sport than the WWE fans have for those who paved the way for future generations.
This is what Ronda Rousey said:
“I would say that the WWE fans care more about the wrestlers than the UFC fans care more about the fighters. UFC fans have much less respect for the veterans and legends of the sport than WWE fans do. A lot of UFC fans are kind of like bandwagon fans in that way.”
Ronda Rousey also said that the UFC fans only cares for the fighters who are still on top, but once a fighter loses or is not the champion of a division anymore, then the fans don’t give a s*** about the fighter and that fighter is dead to them. Ronda then said that the UFC fans don’t have the same level of respect the WWE fans have for those who paved the way for everybody else.
This is what Ronda Rousey said:
“The second you’re not on top, you’re dead to them. Where WWE fans are like, ‘this is the guy that did this 20 years ago’ and are still really excited whereas UFC fans now are like, ‘Forrest Griffin sucks.’ Uhh, you owe basically the whole sport to him. Shit like that. ‘Anderson Silva sucks. GSP [Georges St-Pierre] sucks.’ These are people that elevated the sport and paved the way for everybody else. I don’t see UFC fans having the same respect for people that got the sport to where it is as WWE fans. I’m not saying it’s completely absent, I’m just saying I see more respect for legends in WWE fans than UFC fans. There are exceptions to everything.”
Ronda Rousey was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame in 2018 and she could be on her way as a WWE Hall of Famer as well somewhere down the line.
You can check out Ronda Rousey’s comments in the video below. H/T to Fightful for transcribing the quotes.
