RAW: Why, Bellas? Why?

LaToya Ferguson
source: WWE

After last week’s BELLALUTION-inspired attack, Ronda Rousey wants answers from her two former… Acquaintances? “Friends” seems like that’s pushing it.

After a week going back and forth on social media (and TMZ), Rousey believes she at least deserves an explanation for why the attack happened. “At least tell me why,” she pleads. And, surprisingly, The Bella Twins do come out—rocking brand new “BELLALUTION” t-shirts, by the way—with Nikki Bella letting Rousey know the Philly crowd didn’t come to see the champ, they came to see The Bella Twins. The boos from would say otherwise, but, you know.

Nikki also says they don’t owe Rousey an explanation… before they go on to give her (and the WWE Universe) an explanation. Brie Bella actually busts out the classic “show business … show friends” line, which, true. But their reason is simple: This is what Ronda Rousey gets for disrespecting them and not taking their advice about how to be a champion, a WWE Superstar, and a brand. To be fair, that actually did happen (the not taking their advice part, maybe not the disrespect). And The Bellas weren’t going to sit on the sidelines and take that, so they waited to strike. They came back because of her, but that’s only because they weren’t going to let her be the face of the Women’s Evolution. According to Nikki, The Bellas made the term Diva “mean something.” And while they have a point about Total Divas (and Total Bellas) bringing more women and little girls to live WWE shows, saying they “started” the Evolution might be a bit of an exaggeration. Or even a delusion. Basically, it’s a lot of “Diva this” and “Diva that.” Nikki adds that the RAW Women’s Championship Rousey carries wouldn’t even exist without them, which is also technically true… because WWE needed something to replace the “Divas” legacy with.

Falsehoods aside, The Bellas’ actual mistake is mocking the idea of Ronda Rousey possibly breaking their arms— which the Philly crowd definitely wants to see—because it’s like they haven’t seen all the damage she’s done to Alexa Bliss and company.

Finally, Rousey says her piece, which is that she tried her best to respect them—even though the Divas era of WWE made her “sick to [her] stomach”—assuming that The Bellas just made the best of what they could at the time. You know, like Natalya or Mickie James or Beth Phoenix. Or Paige. Or Lita. Or Trish Stratus. Or LayCool! Sorry, back on track. Instead, she’s since learned they’re a couple of DNBs: Do Nothing Bellas. She even brings up the John Cena and Daniel Bryan of it all, saying Nikki and Brie “leeched off of the names of [their] men,” all in their desperate attempts for attention. That gets a “YES” chant, so she elaborates: “You plagiarize and dilute their movesets.”

But it’s not like The Bellas haven’t heard that before, so they’re not fazed—until Rousey compares them to smallpox, which is new. As for the arm-breaking, that’s exactly what will happen at Evolution. And the only thing that’s going to stop her is the referee, essentially meaning nothing is going to stop her.

Brie’s response? She busts out the “J” word: Rousey is just “jealous,” which is apparently the reason for any possible Bella criticism. And while Nikki tries to talk about The Bellas knocking down doors and breaking ground in WWE, Rousey has something to say about that as well:

“The only door you ever knocked down was the door to John Cena’s bedroom. And he eventually threw you out of that exact same door.”

After that, the time for talk is over, and Rousey lets The Bellas know they can come to the ring for their asswhoopin’ or she’ll come over to the ramp to give them their asswhoopin‘. This all has to end with an asswhoopin’, you see. However, while it looks like The Bellas may actually put their money where their mouth is, they don’t; instead, they have personal security show up to be their human wall. With this, Ronda Rousey destroys said security guards—as they come at her one at a time like movie henchmen—but by the time she’s ready to hand out the promised asswhoopin‘, Nikki and Brie have disappeared. Now that is twin magic.


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