Paige Clarifies Her Comments Blaming Fans for Holding Back Women’s Wrestling in WWE

As noted before, Paige stated in a recent interview with Gulf News that fans were more to blame than WWE for the poor treatment of women’s wrestling in the company’s history. Predictably, Paige’s comments sparked online backlash with fans responding with notable examples of the opposite being true.

Paige clarified her comments on Twitter, stating that she was only blaming WWE fans in the past and not today’s fans. She also stated the main reason for her stance was due to past fans not being as supportive towards women’s wrestling in WWE as they are today.

One of Paige’s claims against fans involved the term “puppies” which was made popular not by fans but by Jerry Lawler during his time as a WWF commentator during the Attitude Era.

Ok if you read it. I said many years ago. Not now. Even up to a few years ago certain places we would wrestle in, the fans in big arenas would chant boring to the girls or start the wave or for years chanted “we want puppies.” So it was absolutely a mixture of both. https://t.co/QfdsbdzaI9

— PAIGE (@RealPaigeWWE) February 18, 2019

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

Absolutely you guys did. We loved that. But riddle me this, what about when the bra and panties matches were happening? Or when Michelle McCool, Gail Kim etc were busting their asses why wasn’t there an uproar then? All I’m saying is.. it’s a two way street. https://t.co/lJl8lvoNp0

— PAIGE (@RealPaigeWWE) February 18, 2019

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