WWE: Ronda Rousey on Rumble Victory, Beth Phoenix on Future Plans, Randy Orton on Fiend Feud

Ronda Rousey Comments on Her Women’s Royal Rumble Victory

Following Saturday’s Royal Rumble 2022 event, WWE held an interview with Ronda Rousey. One of the topics discussed included Rousey’s thoughts on winning this year’s Women’s Royal Rumble match.

“Yeah, it is. That’s the statement I meant to make. I don’t know. That wasn’t a question at all, that was a statement.

I’m gonna go back to my bus and love on my little baby and that’s really the only thing I care about right now. My priorities have changed.”

Rousey also gave her thoughts about why she decided to return to WWE.

“It’s the Royal Rumble and I’ve always wanted to come out and win the Royal Rumble. What do you mean why tonight? What other night would be better?”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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Beth Pheonix Comments on Potential Future In-Ring Plans

Fitness magazine Muscle & Fitness held a recent interview with Beth Phoenix. One of the topics discussed included Phoenix’s thoughts on her potential future in-ring plans following WWE’s Royal Rumble 2022 event.

“I never close any doors in wrestling, because I don’t want to be called out as a hypocrite later when it’s like ‘you’ve retired, like, five times!’ So, I feel great, I don’t have any injuries that prevent me from wrestling, I don’t know what the future brings but I do know that this moment … all I can worry about is this moment in time, and if this is my last match, what a way to go out than beside my husband, in front of my kids, you know, in a stadium, and the Royal Rumble is my favorite pay-per-view so it’s got a fairy tale written all over it”

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Randy Orton Comments on His Past Feud with “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt

A recent episode of The Ringer Wrestling Show podcast had Randy Orton as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Orton’s thoughts on his lengthy feud with “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt and Alexa Bliss in WWE during late 2020 to early 2021.

“Rolling with the punches is something that I realized, more recently than not, if I just accept that I’m out of control of some of these situations and I’m talking about the business right now, if I just take what they give me and do it to the best of my ability…I was doing Fiend stuff a year ago. That was hard. Some of that was rough. They put me in the burn mask one week and the next week I’m out of it and my skin healed. It’s tough. Then you go to, who you would imagine you go to when you have a gripe, and go, ‘Hey, I can’t do this. Aren’t they gonna….’ [Vince impression], ‘Just do it. It’s going to work.’ ‘Okay.’ Roll with the punches. You go out there and do your best job. Even though I’m lighting a dead guy on fire and he’s the babyface…I had a very hard time trying to make that real, but I feel like I did a good enough job to where even though it was a little cringe-worthy for some people, because I really tried to believe I was going through this, I think it helped people buy into it a little bit more while we were suspending that reality and trying to make them believe like they would if they were watching the most recent Halloween movie. They want to believe and be entertained so, the more I can accept that and make it real and make it something that I’m feeling and not just words that some 22-year-old writer wrote on paper for me, if I believe it and make it mine, I can get them to believe. That’s what kind of changed with my promos.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com