Former WWE Star and current All Elite Wrestling Star Saraya recently spoke with Adrian Hernandez on a number of topics such as how the women wrestlers were very scared to use their voices in the WWE back when she was still working there as they were afraid to lose their jobs and how it was very difficult to get what they wanted and do what they wanted to do.
Saraya said:
“Beginning of WWE, it was very hard. You’re very job scared all the time. You feel like you can’t use your voice a lot of the time as a female in the company. It was very difficult a lot of times to get what you wanted and do what you wanted to do. It was really frustrating.”
Saraya also spoke about the time their match was cut short and they were only given four minutes, but instead of arguing they just wanted to make their point across so they went out there and did it in 2 minutes.
Saraya said:
“At one point, we said, ‘F that.’ Me, the Garcia twins, and Emma took a stand at one point and were like, ‘we’re going to take control.’ They had us do a certain amount of time, and then they cut the time, so we only had four minutes when it was with entrances, exit, and the match. You can’t tell a story. There’s no point. It’s a three-hour show, you can’t give us more than four minutes? It’s ridiculous. Why are the women the ones who get cut? We were like, ‘we put butts in seats too; people come watch us.’ We went out and did two minutes. We were like, ‘fuck this, we’re not here to get our time wasted, so we’re going to waste your time instead.’ Went in there, did a couple of strikes and a roll-up, and got the heck out. Once we got backstage, it was, ‘What the fuck, you had so much time left.’ ‘So, we don’t care.’ It’s crappy.”
Saraya then spoke about how she has seen her fellow women wrestlers crying because their WrestleMania moment got taken away, but it is awesome that women use their voices and take a stand nowadays in pro wrestling.
Saraya said:
“I’ve seen girls, they were crying because their WrestleMania moment got taken away and that show is even longer,” Saraya continued. “That’s a whole day event. Now it’s two days, but one day was really long. The girls are the ones who get cut because a guy went over time or someone wanted extra time or whatever it was, and the girls get cut, and they’re devastated. They got all the gear made, all the money, time, and energy into the match for them to be completely cut out. It’s bullshit. It’s awesome when you see girls nowadays use their voices and taking a stand and being like, ‘fuck you, I can do whatever I want to do, and I don’t need you.’”
You can check out Saraya’s full comments in the video below. H/T to Fightful.com for transcribing the above quotes.
