Women’s wrestling has truly come a long way in the past few years. The likes of Charlotte Flair, Paige, Sasha Banks, Bayley, Asuka and more have pushed the women’s division into the main event of WrestleMania. For those who watched WWE during the 90’s or 2000’s, this seems impossible – despite the talent of the likes of Beth Phoenix, Melina, Trish Stratus and more.
Melina Speaks On The Treatment Of Women In WWE During “Divas Era”
While speaking with Wrestle Purists, Melina would shed some more light on how the ladies of WWE were treated during the “divas” era. Namely how those were viewed as overachievers would be punished by being put into gimmick matches like bra and panties matches. Melina would be quoted saying the following.
“We’re blessed to have this contract, this opportunity, and it’s not to say that hey, let me bash the company, whatnot. There’s so many structures, like the top person has to delegate to this person and then these people. It’s like, it can’t be controlled unless it’s delegated. So I can’t blame the whole entire company, whatever, but this is the thing. There are things within the roster where things should change, but it hasn’t.
It’s still kind of trickling from the years and the decades and the eras prior. Certain attitudes or maybe viewpoints, it’s still there. So whatever toxicity, it’s slowly getting flushed out, but not fast enough. So when it comes to a coalition or anything where it’s like, hey, girls, let’s get together, we’re lucky we have a job, but we don’t want to lose our job, and we’ve seen people come and go. It’s like, how do we go about where we keep our job but kinda like push this in and not get heat.
We’d kind of come together, and then it’s like okay, pick your spots, and we’d get punished. Our punishment was, ‘Hey, here’s a lingerie match right after you did something extraordinary,’ or here’s like, I don’t know, a swimsuit match. They would do stuff like that to kind of see what we’d do. It’s like okay, what are they gonna throw at us at this point?”
Could you ever see WWE going back to this type of treatment? Let us know what you think in the comment section down below.
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