5 Times WWE stars did not want to squash their opponent

#2 Ronda Rousey did not want to squash Ruby Riott (WWE Elimination Chamber 2019)

Ronda yesterday says her match with Ruby at the chamber wasn't planned to be a squash match but it was changed last minute. Then she requested to Vince the next night that Ruby and her have a rematch on RAW so they can do the match they worked on. Amazing story. pic.twitter.com/qJ9QFJ0LnE

— Austin (@rondarouseyszn) March 21, 2020

Ronda Rousey defeated Ruby Riott in a 100-second match at WWE Elimination Chamber 2019 to retain the RAW Women’s Championship. The two women had several ideas for the match before their time was cut at short notice.

Rousey said on her Facebook Gaming channel in 2020 that she did not want to defeat Riott at the pay-per-view in such dominant fashion.

“They were like, ‘Dude, it’s a squash, you can’t do the match [that was planned]. We just have too many people on the card. We don’t have time. You gotta just do a squash,’” Rousey said. “We’d been working on this great match all week and we were so stoked about it. We were like [to Ruby Riott], ‘Oh, God… sorry, dude, we have to do a squash.’”

It's rematch time between @RondaRousey & @RubyRiottWWE for the #Raw #WomensTitle! pic.twitter.com/LMAnAdx5Cy

— WWE (@WWE) February 19, 2019

Rousey used to prove her “fighting champion” status by defending her title on the following night’s episode of WWE RAW after a pay-per-view.

Alexa Bliss was due to challenge The Baddest Woman on the Planet on the post-Elimination Chamber episode of RAW. Instead, Rousey defeated Riott in a 12-minute match after convincing WWE’s higher-ups to let her have a rematch against the Riott Squad leader.