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You guys know about Bull Nakano, right? She was inducted into the Hall of Fame recently, and she got a lot of fanfare from a company that fired her the second they caught her with cocaine…in the 90s…you see where I’m getting at? Even if Nakano was wrong, here’s an obvious example of WWE’s hypocrisy in the way they dealt with her during this era where cocaine was handed out like candy. The culture in the 90s didn’t allow for this, but it was on board with all male stars doing it at that time. This resulted in a downgrade in terms of quality, yet the same (or worse) treatment for women.
The second Nakano and Alundra Blayze stopped wrestling on weekly programming, things went south for the division as a whole, up until Lita and Trish Stratus suddenly decided to bring the heat on a weekly program only for that never to be brought back again until 2015, where WWE realized women’s wrestling in the US was reaching a new level (and Joshi was slowly growing in the West).
With all of this on the table, can you imagine destroying the progress you made? How many years of evolution and revolution could be lost if you ever truly cared about it in the first place? When the ones in charge of the Women’s Revolution are the most vocal personalities criticizing your management of both the movement and the future of women’s wrestling in the US, you should rethink how to expose wrestling fans to the best female wrestlers in the world without falling into stupid trends.
