Former WWE star Mickie James who is a former 5 times WWE Women’s champion recently talked about the current state of the women in the world of professional wrestling. We have seen women’s wrestling are growing really high all over the world of professional wrestling. WWE is also doing excellent with their women.
Women’s wrestling in WWE did not start recently. The defunct WWE Women’s Championship was the oldest Championship in WWE. It was founded back in 1956 and it was first held by the legendary professional wrestler Fabulous Moolah. But women’s wrestling in WWE could never develop properly.
Mickie James On The Current State Of Women’s Wrestling
At a point, women were treated as sex objects in WWE. The attitude Era is very famous among the professional wrestling fans, mostly on the internet. But the attitude Era was the worst time of women’s wrestling. At a point, Sable and Jacqueline were the prime woman wrestlers of WWE.
But women’s wrestling started to develop from 2015 after WWE started the women’s revolution. It was an excellent time period of WWE for women after the women’s revolution started. Women have main evented the biggest event of WWE two times so far, WrestleMania. Right now, women are treated similarly as men in WWE.
Mickie James who is a former 5 times WWE Women’s champion recently spoke to the Shining Wizards Podcast where she talked about the current state of the women in professional wrestling. She said;
“I really hope that it (Empowerrr) is something special, and honestly I think each brand presents their women, and I never want to say that anyone presents their women in a terrible way because I’ve been afforded a pretty amazing career on television and my character for the most part, in those good spaces, was presented very well for a lot of my championship runs and stuff like that.
“So, you know, I didn’t see SummerSlam where she (Bianca Belair) got beat. I’ve heard a lot about that recently so I can’t really speak on it aside from what I was watching on Twitter, because I was on Astronomicon, so I apologize for missing that.
“I do think they (WWE) do a really good job of presenting and I do think the fact that Bianca and Sasha were main eventing WrestleMania, and they have had a lot of first evers, I think that just in the last decade alone, but especially in the last I would say almost five years there’s been a stronger force behind driving the legitimacy of women’s wrestling.
“But I go back to like when I was at IMPACT, and I felt like the knockouts were doing it well before. You know, like I was able to main event the show and have a cage match with Tara on IMPACT, and that was well before “Give Divas a Chance” or any of that stuff. So I think that there’s always been like an audience for it that have really, really wanted to see it.
“It’s just they’ve become louder and louder and louder. So hopefully it’s in a space where everyone is kind of following suit, and what’s great about that is that all of the women are very capable and are stepping up because now there’s a whole crop of talented, really amazing women out there who have trained and have wanted to be wrestlers where that wasn’t a thing before, and that comes from all of these awesome women before them that kind of paved the way and gave them an inspiration to say, “Hey, I can do this too!”
“We recognize that across the board in the men, and it’s cool to see it step up to be able to start recognizing that in the women as well. To throw homage back to the ladies who’ve done it, because I will forever be a Sensational Sherry fan ’til the day I die.”