Impact Wrestling legend and former five times Impact Knockouts Champion Madison Rayne who is also a formal three times Impact Knockouts Tag Team Champion recently talked about the contribution of the Impact Knockouts division to the world of women’s wrestling.
Long before WWE was doing the women’s revolution, TNA Wrestling which is now known as the Impact Wrestling started the Knockouts division, that is the women’s division of the promotion. It mostly picked up some of the unknown names in the world of women’s wrestling and made them stars.
Madison Rayne Discusses The Contribution Of Impact Knockouts Division
When WWE was still using their women mostly as objects, TNA was the actually building an amazing women’s division where women were not objectified at all, in fact they were receiving similar bookings like men. They were fighting in order wrestling matches like the Ladder match, and it was way before WWE started their women’s revolution.
People nowadays mostly consider WWE as the Pioneer promotion to build women equal to men. But that can never be true. It was TNA Wrestling who introduced the Knockouts division to make the world of women’s wrestling stronger. So definitely TNA Wrestling should we given the credits for wherever women’s wrestling is standing today.
Madison Rayne who is also a formal three times Impact Knockouts Tag Team Champion recently spoke to AEW Unrestricted where she talked about the contribution of the Impact Knockouts division to the world of women’s wrestling. She said;
“I have come into different pockets and different eras of women’s wrestling at the most amazing times for growth – SHIMMER, or when I first came into TNA as a Knockout. I came in the second wave after the Knockout’s division was created, so I was literally right in the middle of the inception of the division.
“To watch it grow and watch the success it skyrocketed to almost overnight, I definitely think that was a pivotal moment in women’s wrestling history. Throughout my career, the question that has been posed the most to me is, do you agree? Do you think the Knockouts are the reason women’s wrestling is as prevalent as it is today?
“Yes, I think it had a huge role in it. I also said that there wouldn’t be a Mae Young Classic without there being a Mae Young. When I was a kid, the first female match I remember seeing was Bull Nakano and Alundra Blayze going at it. I think there were all these little tentpole moments when you think back in history that got us to where we are now.”
Quotes via 411 Mania