On a recent edition of the “Ring the Belle” podcast, Brandi Rhodes discussed how she had some bitter experiences while making genuine efforts to support the women’s division during her time in AEW.
Brandi noted that there were some ‘hurtful’ moments that involved people blaming her for things going wrong and nobody defending her.
Brandi eventually left AEW for WWE with her husband Cody Rhodes last year. She said,
“I really did just want to be somebody who was there for the women to kind of run things by. Sometimes it’s tough to talk to men about what our issues are, or what we’re trying to do. So I kind of wanted to be there to bridge the gap, and I think in the beginning things worked out really well with that. And, you know, I don’t know if they stayed [working]. What was the most hurtful about it, to me, was not that people looked to me and said, ‘Hey, do something about this, or ‘Maybe this is your fault,’ but that no one stood up and said that it’s not. There were plenty of people that I felt like could have stepped in and said, ‘Hey, you guys, this is a joint effort. This is not all on this one person.’ But that never was done, and never was said. To this day, I feel like this is the first time I’m talking about that. That was hurtful.”
Dax Harwood took to Twitter to respond to those who have criticized AEW for having FTR defend the World Tag Team Championships against teams like The WorkHorsemen and Iron Savages. He wrote,
“I saw a lot of people ask “why are they wrestling these nobody teams?!”or “ANOTHER open challenge?!”. The reason we’re wrestling these “nobodies” is so they’re somebodies when FTR isn’t here anymore. That’s why last night was a great example.”
