Marina Shafir is done letting the wrestling world rewrite history. On Rulebreakers with Saraya, she made it clear that she and her crew coined the name “Four Horsewomen” before anyone in WWE ever ran with it.
Toward the middle of the conversation, Saraya recalled the first time she met Marina backstage at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. She described seeing Shafir alongside Ronda Rousey, Shayna Baszler, and Jessamyn Duke, a group she said immediately gave off “John Wick energy” and owned the room the second they walked in. That’s when the topic of their iconic nickname came up.
“You have — have you always watched wrestling? ‘Cause I remember when I first met you, it was at Staples Center in LA, and it was you, Shayna, Jessamyn — I don’t know if that’s how you say her name — and Ronda. And you called yourselves the Four Horsewomen.”
Marina confirmed that the label didn’t come from WWE or any wrestling storyline—it was theirs from the MMA world.
“’Cause we were the Four Horsewomen of MMA.And we were the Four Horsewomen of whatever. Like, that was our title.We got it first.”
Saraya doubled down, admitting: “I heard it from you guys first. Exactly. I did. I really did.” Marina added:
“We got it first. And a lot of people were really mad about it. Cause we said it first.”
Saraya even recalled taking a photo with the group that day and called them “the coolest [expletive] women that ever walked backstage at WWE.”
The moment turned playful, but the message wasn’t lost—Marina and her squad weren’t following a wrestling gimmick. They were the original Four Horsewomen, and they wore that name proudly long before it made its into WWE circles.
For those who need the breakdown: the MMA Four Horsewomen were Marina Shafir, Ronda Rousey, Shayna Baszler, and Jessamyn Duke. The WWE Four Horsewomen — a completely different group — were Charlotte Flair, Becky Lynch, Sasha Banks (now known as Mercedes Moné), and Bayley.
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