WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley recently spoke with Rolling Stone to promote his new WWE Network reality show, Holy Foley.
Foley was very vocal in the past with how WWE booked their female wrestlers but the company has changed their ways and focuses on female wrestlers more.
“Yeah. I think Mr McMahon was only shown the negative things I wrote. I don’t think they showed him the other 92.5 percent of nice things I was saying. He knew I was critical but it was always constructive criticism, and when I came on board, Stephanie and I agreed that as the big proponents of the women’s wrestling evolution that we needed to draft the women very high for Raw, so we drafted Charlotte second and then Sasha Banks sixth. We are really excited about the women’s division. Moving forward, it’s going to get bigger and better.”
As seen on the show, his daughter, Noelle, is currently training to become a pro wrestler. Foley said that Noelle understands that she has a long way to go to be as good as Sasha Banks and Becky Lynch.
“Well, today’s women have made it much tougher for Noelle. It would have been comparatively much easier for her to garner a spot in the old days when not nearly as much was expected out of the women. They’re just sensational. She trained with Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks and she realizes she has a long way to go. By being an outspoken advocate for women’s wrestling, I’ve probably hurt my daughter’s chances. But I was just really fascinated with how much progress had been made in women’s wrestling. I had the platform to point it out to people and took advantage of it.”
Foley also talked about Shane McMahon and more. You can read the entire interview here.
