Ronda Rousey biography deemed too violent for Walmart stores
WalMarts sells the biographies by Chuck Liddell and Randy Couture, but has deemed Ronda Rousey’s My Fight/Your Fight too violent.
You can buy guns and ammo at Walmart. You can buy Chuck Liddell’s biography “Iceman: My Fighting Life.” You can buy Randy Couture’s biography “Becoming the Natural: My Life in and Out of the Cage.” But you are not going to be able to buy Ronda Rousey’s biography on the grounds that it is too violent.
Ronda Rousey represented her country in the Olympics, earning a bronze medal in Judo, and went on to become the face of the UFC, showing millions of girls that with enough effort, estrogen > testosterone. But that’s too violent, apparently.
I’m shocked, shocked to discover that censorship is going on in America! said publisher Judith Regan to pagesix.com.
The author, Rousey’s sister Maria, responded via Twitter.
Maria Burns Ortiz @BurnsOrtiz
Wal-Mart will sell guns, but not a book. Taking that whole pen is mightier than the sword thing seriously. #myfightyourfight
WalMart will still be selling it online, but after that, why would you?
Target > Walmart
Pre order My Fight/Your Fight” on Amazon. The biography will be published May 12 by Regan Arts.
