In a gaming stream on her YouTube Channel, newly crowned WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey says she pitched the idea for Liv Morgan to powerbomb her into thumbtacks, and then for Morgan to pass out in her armbar face down into the tacks.
Rousey said WWE officials told her no to the idea. Rousey also said she also pitched pins or screws for the finish in place of tacks, but that those ideas were also turned down.
“I pitched the finish to be on thumbtacks. [Liv] would put down thumbtacks, she’d powerbomb me onto the thumbtacks. And as a repeat of our finish from before, I’d go for the armbar on the thumbtacks, but they’d start counting the pin. And I’d have to push up onto my one shoulder, like, into the thumbtacks to keep the armbar on. And Liv would be biting her hand, trying not to tap, and then pass out face down into the thumbtacks with her hand there to protect her face. But they said, ‘We can’t do thumbtacks any more, like, legally, we can’t purposely injure people and cut their skin and stuff.'”
Rousey also discussed about the baseball bat that she and Morgan used in their match and described how she had to make sure she did not injure Morgan when using it as a weapon.
You can watch the full segment with Rousey in the video below: