Paige Responds To Backlash After Blaming Fans For Lack Of Female Progression In WWE

It’s fair to say that Paige hasn’t been all that popular with fans over the last couple of days after she blamed fans for the lack of female progression within WWE during the 2000s.

If you need a reminder, here’s what she said:

“It was never WWE holding the women back. It was the fans not taking them seriously. They wanted to see more of the male characters many years ago. It was a male dominated sport.”

Somehow, she’s managed to say that people have misinterpreted what she said, even though she very blatantly blamed fans, just look at the quote.

She took to Twitter yesterday in an attempt to calm the storm that she created with her accusations.

Absolutely yes. Fans back then would call us toilet breaks. It was only when the girls, the female superstars took it upon themselves to change the way anyone perceived us. Aj, the bellas, myself and the WWE four horsewomen all the superstars wanted to create that change https://t.co/h3h1Va4fXR

— PAIGE (@RealPaigeWWE) February 18, 2019

One fan, who quite clearly didn’t read the direct quote from Paige, tweeted that she said nothing bad about the fans (apart from blaming them), and Paige replied with:

I know but people are sensitive these days. In reality what I said was it’s not all on WWE. Up until a few years ago women didn’t have the support from a lot of people. https://t.co/R0qhEgodwF

— PAIGE (@RealPaigeWWE) February 18, 2019

No, in reality you said: “It was never WWE holding the women back. It was the fans not taking them seriously.”

Look, I’m not saying she meant what she said, but to try and convince people that she didn’t say it is just dumb. It’s perfectly true that a lot of people didn’t take women’s wrestling seriously, but that’s because it was presented so woefully by WWE in the first place.

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