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Ronda Rousey responds to criticism for calling pro wrestling ‘fake fights for fun’

Ronda Rousey isn’t backing down. The former UFC and WWE champion has faced a wave of criticism regarding some controversial comments she recently made about pro wrestling, but she’s not about to reel any of it back. In fact, she took to social media to go after wrestling defenders even more.

The comment that seemed to draw the most ire online was her referring to her time in WWE, which ended in April of 2019, as competing in “fake fights for fun”. She responded to this by making comparisons between pro wrestling and “real” fighting, and decided that she needed to put the word “real” in caps three different times to really emphasize her point.