The WWE women’s division has had to overcome many obstacles in the last decade, as fans witnessed the transition from the Divas era to where they are today by being treated the same as the men.
The company took a further step when introducing the Women’s United States Title, the first-ever secondary title for the main roster. Rhea Ripley has been at the forefront of that change, becoming one of WWE’s biggest stars. While speaking on Jazzys World TV, she discussed the change.
Rhea stated, “Being taken for granted, I think. The women in WWE, we’ve come a very, very long way. We’ve overcome a lot of obstacles that were put in the way, and it’s been growing each and every year. I think that was the biggest obstacle just getting people to sort of take us seriously. For the longest time, people joked about us being the toilet break, which is just plain and disrespectful, especially when the women go out there and we leave everything that we have out in the ring and we go just as hard as the men do so don’t don’t treat us with that disrespect so we’re making people realize that we can go just as hard as the men and if not harder.”
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