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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Paige Blames Fans For Holding Women Back</strong></h2>



<p>2-time WWE Divas Champion <strong>Paige</strong> recently spoke with <a href="https://gulfnews.com/entertainment/hollywood/wwe-star-paige-on-beating-depression-with-help-from-dwayne-johnson-1.62146979" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label=" (opens in a new tab)">Gulf News</a> to promote her new film &#8220;Fighting With My Family.&#8221;</p>



<p>During the interview, the former General Manager of SmackDown Live stated that it was the WWE Universe that held back the female Superstars and not the company itself.</p>



<blockquote style="text-align:center" class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p> “It was never WWE holding the women back. It was the fans not taking them seriously. They wanted to see more of the male characters many years ago. It was a male-dominated sport.&#8221;</p></blockquote>


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<blockquote style="text-align:center" class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>&#8220;When I first started, there were only five women there. It was a struggle but WWE just believed in us. When I got into the ring, I wanted to prove to the fans that girls were capable of having good matches and sometimes, even better. That was kind of my mission from the get go. Now there’s obviously a revolution.&#8221;</p></blockquote>


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<p>Paige later took to Twitter to clarify her statement.</p>



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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">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. <a href="https://t.co/QfdsbdzaI9">https://t.co/QfdsbdzaI9</a></p>&mdash; PAIGE (@RealPaigeWWE) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealPaigeWWE/status/1097547299859779584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2019</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">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 <a href="https://t.co/h3h1Va4fXR">https://t.co/h3h1Va4fXR</a></p>&mdash; PAIGE (@RealPaigeWWE) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealPaigeWWE/status/1097548930911428608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2019</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">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. <a href="https://t.co/R0qhEgodwF">https://t.co/R0qhEgodwF</a></p>&mdash; PAIGE (@RealPaigeWWE) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealPaigeWWE/status/1097551059969396736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2019</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Lio Rush&#8217;s Backstage Reputation May Have Caused Lashley Turn</strong></h2>



<p>At <a href="https://api.wrestlingworld.co/reviews/wwe-elimination-chamber-2019-results-review-highlights/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label=" (opens in a new tab)">Elimination Chamber</a>, <strong>Bobby Lashley</strong> lost the WWE Universal Championship as <strong>Finn Balor</strong> pinned <strong>Lio Rush</strong> to capture the title in the 2-on-1 Handicap Match.</p>



<p>Post-match, The Almighty attacked his hypeman, thus teasing the potential end of their alliance. </p>



<p>On&nbsp;<a href="http://www.pwinsider.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label=" (opens in a new tab)">PWInsider</a>, Mike Johnson revealed that Rush&#8217;s habit of rubbing people in the wrong way backstage might have played a part in WWE&#8217;s decision to have Lashley turn on him.</p>


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<blockquote style="text-align:center" class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p> “It appears <strong>Lio Rush</strong> is done with <strong>Bobby Lashley</strong>. I can tell you behind the scenes there were not a lot of people surprised at that and not a lot of people surprised that Lio took the pin. &#8220;</p></blockquote>



<blockquote style="text-align:center" class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>There are times Lio has a reputation for rubbing people, including other workers, the wrong way. Whether that was being held against him and that was part of the reasoning for him losing or whether it was just a decision to protect Lashley and shift the belt to <strong>Finn Balor</strong>, I guess we’ll have to see based on how Lio is presented in the weeks and months to come.” </p></blockquote>


Paige Blames Fans For Holding Women Back, Lio Rush’s Backstage Reputation May Have Caused Lashley Turn

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