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Michelle McCool once recounted how she and Victoria were asked to go redo their match on an episode of SmackDown because their “punches and kicks looked better than the guys”.
Chris Jericho took a stand and told the management that it wasn’t the female wrestlers’ fault if the guys’ punches didn’t look good.
During the Divas Era, veteran and coach Fit Finlay used to secretly train women wrestlers behind the management’s back.
Ultimately, it paid off when even the fans began demanding the company to treat the women’s division better, and it led to what would be marketed as the Women’s Revolution.
Although TNA’s women’s division had been breaking all the barriers for way longer, and many other promotions such as Stardom exist which solely focus on women’s wrestling, the WWE machine used its worldwide platform to lead this change, albeit the changes were visible mainly within the company.
