Ronda Rousey is the reigning UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion and an actress who can currently be seen in Furious 7. She’s also written a book called My Fight/Your Fight, which comes out May 12 and will touch on her career and her “tragic childhood.” With Rousey’s crossover appeal, you would think that stores would be salivating to carry her autobiography on their shelves, but according to a report in the New York Post, Walmart isn’t interested.
Walmart — the largest seller of guns and ammo in the country — is refusing to sell a book by Ronda Rousey on the grounds that she’s too violent.
To be fair, Rousey’s book is available for sale on the mega-retailer’s website (as are several UFC DVDs of her fights, a cardboard cutout of her, an autobiography by convicted rapist and former boxer Mike Tyson, and a serial killer encyclopedia), so this reported ban only seems to apply to brick and mortar, which, I suppose, shouldn’t be a surprise because Walmart has a long history of being quite conservative with the products it offers in its stores. Except Fifty Shades of Grey. Walmart will sell the sh*t out of that BDSM tome.
Don’t cry for Rousey or her publishers, though. At this point, I’m pretty sure that being “banned” by Walmart carries the same weight as being tabbed as an Oprah’s Book Club selection, thanks to the amount of press that the book is getting. Basically, everyone wins.
Source: New York Post
