Gail Kim is a professional wrestling veteran, and some would say that she’s one of the best female wrestlers to ever lace up the boots. Kim has certain created quite the legacy for herself with her body of work in Impact Wrestling, now known as GFW, but she didn’t really get the chance to show the world what she could do in WWE.
Gail Kim had two runs with WWE, but women’s wrestling was in a very different place during her time with the company. Kim recently spoke to Sporting News about why things didn’t work out for her with WWE, and she said that she just doesn’t think Vince McMahon liked women’s wrestling.
My honest opinion, and this is only my opinion and I don’t know this as fact, I just think Vince McMahon did not like women’s wrestling. With this whole revolution that happened in WWE these past couple of years, it’s because of the fans. Remember they were saying “Give Divas a Chance” that it got to the point where Vince is like OK, I’m going to give them a chance. It was really truly Hunter (Triple H) who created all these great girls in NXT. It wasn’t Vince. It’s almost like, thank God Hunter did it so that Vince could see the reaction that these girls were getting in NXT. Then it was OK, let’s jump on the bandwagon and let’s make it happen. I think he was never a fan of women’s wrestling whether he had talented girls or not and he didn’t want to watch that.”
Kim added that while she was with WWE they didn’t want the women to do much, and if she wanted to do certain moves she had to get approval.
“When I was there, they really didn’t want us to do things. Even to do a superplex off the top rope, you had to keep it quiet until it happened and hopefully get approval from the agent. He would say do it and I’ll take the heat for it. It was just insane to me. To me, I always just feel like why would you hire a talent and not use them to the best of their ability? That’s the confusing part for me and that was the most frustrating part for me. But I just chalked it up to I was in that company at the wrong time.”
