Vickie Guerrero recently spoke with Wrestlezone’s Kevin Kellam and talked about what she’d like to see more of in WWE. Vickie said she knows that WWE faces issues with sponsors and violence between men and women, but the ‘shock and awe’ of the past is something she wishes would return. Vickie cited her own on-air experiences with Edge and The Undertaker, saying putting the women in more ‘daring’ situations is something she is disappointed in not seeing anymore:
“I think they’ve taken away a lot of the fun verbiage on TV. When me and Edge were together, he could chase me, I could chase him, he could slap me, spear me, and when we started getting these big sponsors that came in, a lot of them didn’t like the look of having domestic abuse or a woman looking like she’s getting beat up by a man. I would sit there going, ‘no, I’m OK with this, we’re good. I’m OK being chased.’ and for them to kind of go and cut that out now, the physicality is a lot different. The Attitude Era is where you could have the dumpster of manure poured on someone, and that was fun, or the limo of Vince McMahon being blown up—that was fun stuff to watch. To see a lot of it just being very straight and narrow, the entertainment is disappointing me because it’s not daring anymore as it used to be.
When Undertaker Tombstoned me, that was great stuff! ‘My neck’s not hurt after all.’ Today you don’t really see women going through those maneuvers. I wish they would bring back the daring aspect of women being in jeopardy, but that’s the one thing I’m disappointed by, the shock and awe of seeing something on TV.”
Additionally, Vickie said she is proud to see the steps women’s wrestling has made, saying they went from getting matches cut to stealing the show. Vickie said the women of her era were very talented, but now WWE’s current roster is getting a fair shot at proving they deserve the ring time:
“I’m so proud of where the women are today. Back then—I started in 2004—the women were the ’T and A’ and they came out in bikinis, escorting the guys. These women were really talented where they deserved a match, and let me tell you, when they knew they had a match they were going over it all day long. So seeing the disappointment of them going to Gorilla and hearing ‘oh your match went from three minutes to forty seconds’, it was heartbreaking. You wait all day to get your chance to be on TV, and when that was going on it was so discouraging. I felt for these women because it was just disappointment, but jumping to today to seeing these women being in main event matches, WrestleMania, getting endorsements and headlining pay-per-views and TV shows—I’m proud of them. It’s about time they got the opportunity to prove themselves and they’re doing really well. I sit back and enjoy the product and watching them.”
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