Ronda Rousey Refused To Tap Out To Becky Lynch

Ronda Rousey was determined not to tap out.

At WrestleMania 35, Becky Lynch, Ronda Rousey, and Charlotte Flair made WWE history when they headlined the entire event. Never before had a women’s match taken the main event spot.

The end of the match came when Lynch executed a backslide on Rousey to walk away with both the Raw and SmackDown Women’s Championship, and “Becky Two Belts” was born.

Following the match, Rousey went on her first WWE hiatus, and she wouldn’t return until the 2022 Royal Rumble.

Ronda Rousey Rejected WWE Pitch

In a new interview with The Lapsed Fan podcast, Rousey confirmed that she refused a pitch to tap out to Lynch as part of their proposed match at Survivor Series 2018. Lynch was famously replaced in the match by Charlotte Flair after suffering a concussion at the hands of Nia Jax.

It’s since been claimed that Rousey also refused the same finish at WrestleMania.

She explained that she never tapped out in her MMA career, so she wasn’t about to start in pro wrestling.

“It was proposed that I tap out to her (Becky Lynch) armbar at Survivor Series, and I said, ‘My mother would disown me,’” Rousey said. “Anytime anyone’s actually ever arm-barred me in real life, I’ve just let them dislocate it and I limp my arm out. That’s why my ligaments are all f**ked up in this arm.

So, I’m not gonna do it. Anytime anyone ever choked me out in competition, I just went out, and I don’t tap. I no tap motherf*cker. That’s how it is.”

Rousey added that the only person she would ever allow to tap her out would be Shayna Baszler.

“The only person I said I would ever allow to submit me was Shayna (Baszler), and that’s why I wanted to go out, so that’s how I went out. I didn’t tap out. Let her choke me out.”

During the same interview, Ronda Rousey branded Vince McMahon a “pervert,” and admitted that she’ll likely never wrestle again.

For her part, back in March, Becky Lynch said that Ronda Rousey was mishandled during her WWE run. Lynch said that after Rousey’s first match alongside Kurt Angle against Triple H and Stephanie McMahon, there was an assumption that she knew everything.

This was despite the fact that she “couldn’t wrestle.”

H/t to WrestlingNews.Co