Ronda Rousey vs. Nia Jax at Money in the Bank

[Innovator]

Ronda Rousey’s next major match was set up on Monday at the NBC Upfront presentation in New York City.

Both Rousey and Nia Jax were among those representing the WWE at the presentation with a challenge issued by Jax to face Rousey for the Raw women’s title.

POST Wrestling reported on Sunday that Rousey would be wrestling at the Money in the Bank event on June 17th at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois, which is where the women’s title match will take place.

Rousey will also be wrestling this week on four of the WWE’s European dates, which are Rousey’s first matches since WrestleMania 34.

We were told that the decision to go with Jax and Rousey was made about a week ago.

[LibSuperstar]

Not Mickie James? That's who Rousey has been facing on the European tour.

[#1-norm-fan]

... Well, alright.

[slik]

Ummm...this seems a little too soon for Ronda to have a title shot or to lose a match...figured she would feud w/ Mickie and then Nattie.

Weird.

[Evil Vito]

Rousey wins the belt and keeps it til WM35. That's the Raw women's division sorted for the next year.

[Destor]

Not Mickie James? That's who Rousey has been facing on the European tour.

Mickie is just teaching her how to work

[slik]

Maybe Nattie will cost her the match and start a Nattie/Ronda feud...still seems odd to have her lose so soon if they do that.

[Sixx]

Aren't they both "face"?

[#1-norm-fan]

Aren't they both "face"?

Yeah. Which wouldn't be that crazy if they hadn't just gone through the effort to make Nia Jax a face and taken the belt off the top heel of the division. If Rousey wins, it would have made way more sense to just have her take it from Bliss. Especially since Nia is kinda sloppy in the ring. If she loses... then... Well, that's just fucking weird.

I guess they'll probably just go non-finish to build a different feud for Rousey. Either way, this all seems ridiculously too early and rushed but that's kinda WWE in a nutshell.

[Ruien]

Nattie will interfere and get Rousey dqed or something.

[Ruien]

No way they let Rousey have an actual match with sloppy Nia already. Will be super short and something will cause it to stop.

[Sixx]

Yeah. Which wouldn't be that crazy if they hadn't just gone through the effort to make Nia Jax a face and taken the belt off the top heel of the division. If Rousey wins, it would have made way more sense to just have her take it from Bliss. Especially since Nia is kinda sloppy in the ring. If she loses... then... Well, that's just fucking weird.

I guess they'll probably just go non-finish to build a different feud for Rousey. Either way, this all seems ridiculously too early and rushed but that's kinda WWE in a nutshell.

Ah, well, maybe that top heel will come down to beat up the fatty for taking the belt off her ending the match in a DQ and then Rousey standing up for the fatty, which leads to some sort of a tag team match with Rouse nad The Fatty vs Top Female Heel and Some Other Female Heel?

[slik]

No way they let Rousey have an actual match with sloppy Nia already. Will be super short and something will cause it to stop.

I didn't even think about that. Nia is really sloppy.

[Dark One]

PLACE YOUR BETS HERE on which of the two is going to die in this match.

2-1 odds on Nia dropping Ronda on her head.
5-1 odds on Nia's shoulder getting fucked up when she drops poorly for the armbar.

[Shisen Kopf]

Nia is gonna eat her alive. Literally.

[Shisen Kopf]

She's fat.

[Dark One]

She's fat.

Come on Shisen.

Step it up.

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[Droford]

Thought they'd give the women's mitb to her

[Cool King]

Rousey vs Jax for the title, Rousey wins, Natalya cashes in her newly won MITB contract on Rousey and becomes champion.

Now we have Rousey vs Natalya in a classic "I thought you were my friend" storyline.

[Cool King]

For Dark One:

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[RP]

Again, this is why i made the thread saying you do the double witch between Nia and Alexa at WM. Having this match with both as face, or having this match with anything but Nia being heel, makes no sense. WWE creative is literally tanking there own product and shitting on the wrestling business. And i'm kind of rooting for WWE to be canceled and not picked up by major networks. Probably wont happen, but they really deserve it because they're being run by fucking monkeys apparently.

[Loose Cannon]

I saw this thread yesterday and thought it was just a what if thread. but just read the news page and saw it's actually real. I haven't watched in a week or so. is this a real feud or did they just throw this together?

Makes zero sense to me because Nia is supossed to be the anti bullying babyface and you're throwing her against the cool babyface. what is happening here.

[LibSuperstar]

I saw this thread yesterday and thought it was just a what if thread. but just read the news page and saw it's actually real. I haven't watched in a week or so. is this a real feud or did they just throw this together?

Makes zero sense to me because Nia is supossed to be the anti bullying babyface and you're throwing her against the cool babyface. what is happening here.

They just threw it together and the only sense I can make of it is Rousey being a draw. Jax should be heel as RP suggested.

[Cool King]

There's now a video of how this match has come about.

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Just like Rousey's WrestleMania match, this match has a really poor and weak reason behind it.

[Dark One]

For Dark One:


Thank you.

This is the appropriate way to use a classic line.

[Emperor Smeat]

Way too early for Ronda to get a title shot unless WWE wants to pull a Lesnar with her as champion. That would hurt RAW's women's division a lot more than Lesnar as Universal champ since at least the men have other belts for feuds and matches on RAW.

Even a screwy finish to prevent Ronda from winning the title now likely will hurt more than it helps.

[Frank Drebin]

Triple A is gonna flip out at the thought of Nia recklessly tossing Ronda on her head and ending her career.

[Cool King]

If what I previously said doesn't happen, then I can see Natalya costing Rousey the match with her reason being that she finds it unfair that Rousey has one match and is given a title shot, whereas she has to work hard for title opportunities and so on, that sort of thing.

[DAMN iNATOR]

Mickie is just teaching her how to work

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[DAMN iNATOR]

Triple A is gonna flip out at the thought of Nia recklessly tossing Ronda on her head and ending her career.

Rightly so. She already broke Alexa. She needs real competition.

Someone like, oh, I dunno:
eATchTGlkAQ

[Stickman]

There is no point to this match. Where is the story? Where is the build? Terrible

[Sixx]

Rightly so. She already broke Alexa. She needs real competition.

Someone like, oh, I dunno:
eATchTGlkAQ

Since when do they recruit wrestlers from Oprah's audience?

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

You ain't hating on the GLOW Champion the Welfare Queen. Nah.

[Sixx]

What?

[Mr. Nerfect]

Nia fucking sucks and this feels way too early and like the wrong match. Whatever.

[Shisen Kopf]

Nia is such a sloppy rassler. You can tell her mind is somewhere else. Prob thinking about the buffet line.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Oh, man, imagine if she does fuck up and hurts Rousey...

[Shisen Kopf]

Be funny if Rousey put her in a legit hold and broke Nia's burger arm. She better not hurt rousey. They'd prob release her. Look what happened to Gotch after he hurt the classy Enzo

[Bad News Gertner]

Moo Cow Nia will just sit on her.

Any this match, Nia and Mickie James should have a Sumo match

[Shisen Kopf]

They should repackage Nia and call her The Dump Truck. Basically, give her Earthquakes gimmick only with more eating.

[Black Widow]

Ronda should win in 15 seconds just to piss off everyone that likes to bitch but continue to watch anyway.

[Dukelorange]

The match won't be good.

[Bad News Gertner]

They should repackage Nia and call her The Dump Truck. Basically, give her Earthquakes gimmick only with more eating.

They should give Nia Jax the gimmick of George The Animal Steele where she eats the turnbuckle, but instead of them being filled with white stuffing, they are filled with cheeseburgers

[Big Vic]

What's more of a danger to Ronda, a MITB match or a Nia Jax match?

[Shisen Kopf]

The only way Nia could be any worse is if they have her talk with an English/Irish accent

[LibSuperstar]

The only way Nia could be any worse is if they have her an English/Irish accent

That would be straight comedy!

[Shisen Kopf]

They should give Nia Jax the gimmick of George The Animal Steele where she eats the turnbuckle, but instead of them being filled with white stuffing, they are filled with cheeseburgers

Sloppy Joe's. Shes seems like she would eat them

[Shisen Kopf]

That would be straight comedy!

"Good day, mate. I'm Nia Fats and I want me bloody lucky charms or I'll kick your arse"

[Innovator]

Sloppy Joe's. Shes seems like she would eat them

She's a sloppier Joe than Enzo working in Samoa Joe's 2011 body

[slik]

Bursting w/ intensity

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[Nicky Fives]

Has to have Nattie turning on her to lead to her Summerslam match, or else its a BIG mistake....

[Innovator]

The entire female roster should interfere, leading Ronda to run through them all until Mania

[slik]

Ronda should pin the Undertaker at SummerSlam next

[Innovator]

Ronda should unite the clans

[Mr. Nerfect]

Bursting w/ intensity

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I thought that must have been from a WWE parody account, until I realized it was their official one. Eep.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I had a random thought: Given that Nia has reportedly played the nepotism card to get more opportunities in NXT, given her random absence a while back (she says injury...ok), her inability to deal with fans on Twitter, and her general suck levels -- I wonder if Nia has decided this isn't for her? Am I being too hopeful?

If she said to Vince "You know what? I'm a few years in and I just don't get this. I'm going to go and start playing netball or designing plus-sized bathing suits," they may have sped up plans to get the belt off her and move Ronda into star position. This would be compounded by the "Fuck, our television sucks, so how do we appeal to USA" predicament.

[slik]

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[LibSuperstar]

Crowd was loving Ronda.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I'm loving Ronda, and her shit looks great, but you can already see the patterns developing. How many times are people going to be able to see that before it's not special?

[#1-norm-fan]

There was a lot of her clearly anticipating the next spot, which was awkward. She should be fine though.

Still not sure how all of this is gonna work out in a match with Nia.

[Mr. Nerfect]

God, I hope Nia doesn't kill her. NBC should hold off on that TV deal for a few weeks...

[Evil Vito]

Needs to get shorts that don't ride up on her. She was constantly fiddling with them.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Oh god, I thought you were talking about Nia for a second there.

[Innovator]

Needs to get shorts that don't ride up on her. She was constantly fiddling with them.

I think she used to do that a lot during her fights, maybe it's a tick she has.

[Loose Cannon]

Bursting w/ intensity

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christ this is like WWE2K.

[Loose Cannon]

actually it's more like the interviews with Mean Gene on like WWF Wreslefest Arcade game

[Mr. Nerfect]

Feels like it should be set to the WWF No Mercy backstage music.

[SenatorJPO]

I suspect this booking might be to punish Nia for "ragdolling" her opponents.

Vince: "Hey, Nia -- you want to work stiff? You're working with Rousey!"

Nia: "Whatever you want, Vince! But make-sure the announcers say I 'walk,' not 'waddle,' to the ring."

[xrodmuc316]

I don't like it for lots of reason

1. Ronda is to new, feels rushed
2. Why give Ronda her first shot at a B PPV, at least wait til Summerslam
3. Nia is horrible in the ring, Ronda should be in there was Ring Generals
4. Isn't Nia supposed to be the Be a Star babyface? So either fans back her and you already put Ronda on the Roman Boo Path, or...
5. You are already giving up on Nia as a face, in which case why the fuck did you move Asuka to Charlotte and end her streak. I don't swear often, but that is the most shortsighted booking maybe ever.
6. In all likelihood this is probably gonna be a cop out finish to protect Ronda but keep the belt with Nia, and haven't we seen enough of that with A.J. and Shinsuke already.
7. Do they really want to follow-up the Horrible Backlash PPV with another badly booked show that only accomplishes letting the fans down
8. Vince is worth like $2billion now, not that it has anything to do with this match specifically, but he probably listens to anybody else's opinion now less than ever before so he might actually have Roman save Ronda from something, cause gotta get Roman over

[xrodmuc316]

Needs to get shorts that don't ride up on her. She was constantly fiddling with them.

I thought the same of Bobby Lashley, although his might be because his sisters got him drunk and had laser hair removal performed on his bikini area cause "love my family, pranksters!", causing his trunks to slip up his skin more easily.

[Shisen Kopf]

I don't like it for lots of reason

1. Ronda is to new, feels rushed
2. Why give Ronda her first shot at a B PPV, at least wait til Summerslam
3. Nia is horrible in the ring, Ronda should be in there was Ring Generals
4. Isn't Nia supposed to be the Be a Star babyface? So either fans back her and you already put Ronda on the Roman Boo Path, or...
5. You are already giving up on Nia as a face, in which case why the fuck did you move Asuka to Charlotte and end her streak. I don't swear often, but that is the most shortsighted booking maybe ever.
6. In all likelihood this is probably gonna be a cop out finish to protect Ronda but keep the belt with Nia, and haven't we seen enough of that with A.J. and Shinsuke already.
7. Do they really want to follow-up the Horrible Backlash PPV with another badly booked show that only accomplishes letting the fans down
8. Vince is worth like $2billion now, not that it has anything to do with this match specifically, but he probably listens to anybody else's opinion now less than ever before so he might actually have Roman save Ronda from something, cause gotta get Roman over

Plus she's fat

[Shisen Kopf]

WWE should rebrand her as Slobbersaurus Jax and get with the Jurassic World marketing team to promote the movie

[Outsider]

Personally I'd have Nia beat her clean and quick.

Turn Rousey's story into one where everyone assumed she'd come in and clean up but actually the WWE is tougher than it looks. Spend the next year having her build her way up and start to show her "natural talent". Gives her some more natural feuds, stops it being as predictable and prevents the WWEs natural instinct to feed midcarders to people they want to build by putting her into stories where there can be actual competition and the occasional loss.

Not going to happen though.

[#1-norm-fan]

Nah. The appeal of Rousey is that she's already credible. Intentionally ruining that credibility just to try to build her back up defeats the whole purpose of signing her in the first place. Not to mention leaving it up to WWE's writers to build someone up as credible is just a REALLLLY bad idea.

[xrodmuc316]

Nah. The appeal of Rousey is that she's already credible. Intentionally ruining that credibility just to try to build her back up defeats the whole purpose of signing her in the first place. Not to mention leaving it up to WWE's writers to build someone up as credible is just a REALLLLY bad idea.

Like how Brock came back in and lost to Cena and Triple H lol.

Never put anything beyond Vince and his writers.

[Ruien]

Losing to Cena isn't the same thing as losing to Nia.

Also didnt Brock destroy Cena the first time?

[DAMN iNATOR]

What?

That's Awesome Kong (TNA ring name), aka Kharma as she was known in WWE. She beat up a few divas and gave like one promo where she basically said she was pregnant but wanted to compete in WWE, which never happened. A while later she ended up in GLOW (Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling) where she had the "Welfare Queen" gimmick that STD joked about. I've never seen any of her stuff aside from the millisecond she was in WWE, so I couldn't tell you what it was about.

[slik]

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[#1-norm-fan]

Like how Brock came back in and lost to Cena and Triple H lol.

Never put anything beyond Vince and his writers.

I didn't say they WOULDN'T do it. It would just be silly to do it. But let's not pretend that Brock losing in a match he dominated to Cena is remotely the same as Rousey getting squashed by Nia Jax.

[#1-norm-fan]

Rousey should just make everyone she faces submit and also carry their arms over her shoulders during every entrance.