WWE Is More Like Movie Choreography, It’s Like Doing Broadway: Ronda Rousey

"It's uniquely challenging," Rousey said when asked about the difference between WWE and UFC. "I think it's a marriage between fighting and acting really. And it's like doing Broadway, except for everyone does their own stunts and everyone is kinda making it up as they go along."

Author: India.com Sports Desk Edited by: Aakash Kumar

Published: August 7, 2018, 10:53 AM IST

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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) legend Ronda Rousey believes WWE is uniquely challenging and is more like “movie choreography” than fighting.

The former UFC fighter appeared on  Live with Kelly and Ryan recently and explained the traits needed in order to survive in the pro wrestling business. She compared WWE to Broadway, where a lot of people do their own stunts. The  31-year-old further said that everyone prepared before they went out and all of the choreography was made up during the fight.

“It’s uniquely challenging,” Rousey said when asked about the difference between WWE and UFC. “I think it’s a marriage between fighting and acting really. And it’s like doing Broadway, except for everyone does their own stunts and everyone is kinda making it up as they go along.”

Rousey is set to face Alexa Bliss for the Raw Women’s Championship at SummerSlam, on August 19 in the Barclays Centre.

Rousey was the first American woman to earn an Olympic medal in judo (bronze), which she won at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She is a former UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion, as well as the last ever Strikeforce Women’s Bantamweight Champion. She won 12 consecutive MMA fights, including six in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), before suffering her first loss, to Holly Holm in November 2015.