WWE News: How Jim Neidhart’s Passing Changed Plans For Ronda Rousey

Details on a storyline for Ronda Rousey being dropped by WWE!

It’s been a number of weeks now since the on-screen friendship between RAW Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey and Natalya seemingly disintegrated, as the two have been moved in separate directions after being paired together on WWE television.

To many members of the WWE Universe it seemed a foregone conclusion that Natalya would eventually turn against her friend, however that never came to fruition and when Nattie’s legendary father, Jim ‘The Anvil’ Neidhart, passed away in mid-August, the two began going in new directions. It now looks like the untimely passing of ‘The Anvil’ played a huge direction in WWE’s storylines.

According to The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the angle was in fact going to wind up with Natalya turning heel on ‘Rowdy’ Ronda, but when ‘The Anvil’ passed on it caused the company to change directions, feeling that they could no longer pull the trigger on it. Additionally, it was said that the heel turn would have taken place right around this time and Nattie would have been Ronda’s next challenger, but ultimately the decision was made to go back to another Rousey vs. Nia Jax feud.

EA’s Take: I don’t think it’s a secret that Nattie was going to turn on Ronda, seemingly everyone saw it coming from a mile away. Did WWE make the right call in changing gears because of Jim Neidhart’s death? Who’s to say, but I can say that what’s going on with Nia Jax right now is probably a lot more interesting than what we would have gotten with Nattie/Rousey, even though it would have been a new match we haven’t seen.

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