Paige On WWE Treating The Women’s Roster Like “Absolute Dogs**t”

Aug 3, 2022

Last month Paige’s WWE contract expired and she finished up a decade long run with the company. The former Divas Champion is still retired from in-ring competition, but she’s been sharing her thoughts on wrestling since parting ways with WWE.

There’s no denying that women’s wrestling has come a long way over the last 10 years, and it took a lot of work to get it where it is now. Paige opened up about the way women used to be presented in WWE during an appearance on The Bellas Podcast, and she made it clear that she didn’t agree with the way things were going at the time.

“You guys got treated like absolute dogs**t. I’m like, ‘This cannot happen anymore. This is so outrageous.’ I remember in my family’s documentary they were still filming when I first got over here, I said, ‘I don’t want the women to be viewed as pee breaks anymore,’ because you’re not. Everyone wants to wrestle, everyone wants to be able to put on these matches.”

“You ladies were already wrestling as good as the men. You just weren’t given the chance, and I said that to everybody. They weren’t wrestling to be these Divas that just want to be oversexualised. That’s just what they’re given and they’re trying to make the most of what they’re given. I was like, ‘If they had the same opportunities that we kind of took, it would be a whole different story.’”