Whatever you think of Mia Khalifa, it's very clear that she has no problem speaking her mind, which often results in a few people getting ticked off. After a very brief but successful career in the world of pornography, she became disillusioned with the industry after a few months and quit it for good. Now she has taken on roles as a social media personality, model, and host of a daily sports show on Complex since October last year.
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But the reason many of us know her name is down to the various controversies she's been involved with in recent months. There was the time
she was shut down by NFL star JuJu Smith-Scuster on Twitter after she tried to flirt with him, the time she screenshotted the chairman of the FCC
sliding into her DMs, or the uproar she caused when she
photoshopped her face onto the Virgin Mary.
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Recently, the 24-year-old upset many wrestling fans when she called the pro-wrestling "embarrassing and "not a real sport", also describing UFC fighter Ronda Rousey's
move to WWE as being "where her career will go to die". As you can imagine, people weren't too happy about this.
WWE star Gregory Helms, better known as 'Hurricane', hit back on Twitter, writing that, "I’m not gonna get upset that a Porn Star doesn’t respect Pro Wrestling. She’s entitled to her opinion. Our bodies take a pounding. and well ... so does hers"
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Now Joey Ryan, another pro wrestler, has responded to Khalifa's comment on his vocation, even going as far as to invite her into the ring to settle the dispute. Ryan invited her to Sabotage Wrestling's War of the Genders show in Texas, where she didn't exactly stay on the sidelines.
Talking to the crowd from the ring, Ryan said: "If you think it's so easy to get in here and do this - Mia Khalifa I invite you down into the ring with Joey Ryan". Surprising pretty much everyone, she actually did turn up, joining him in the ring to trash talk one another.
"There's a little term on the internet called keyboard warrior," Ryan told her. "So now you're in the ring you can prove whether you mean what you really say."
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She replied:
"Of course I mean what I say. Of course, I do. You look like a giant, hairy man baby. You are basically a cartoon. I can not believe your gimmick."
What then followed was a ridiculous choreographed fight between Joey and Khalifa's bodyguard, who had stepped in to defend her, with Khalifa getting involved in a slapstick bit. When Ryan he tries to perform 'Sweet Tooth Music', a finishing move of Ryan's that's preceded by putting a lollipop in the opponent's mouth (yes, really), he accidentally gets it in Khalifa's instead, much to her disgust.
Despite the bad words between the two, it seems like neither of them has strong negative feelings for each other. "People take things so seriously," Khalifa later said. "I have no hate towards wrestlers, I just love talking s**t."
