During an appearance on Busted Open Radio, Impact Wrestling Hall Of Famer Gail Kim talked about the progress made by women’s wrestling and auspicated that equal pay is now the next step to take.
“I’m really happy. I feel like it took a while, you know, from the time of – I can’t remember when I was begging, around 2005, maybe around there, 2006, now I feel like – we just had four women’s matches on our pay-per-view this past week, and I feel like even WWE and AEW are stepping it up a little bit.”
As much as equal pay between men and women is a taboo, Kim still has hopes: “I think it’s going in the right direction. The next thing is all equal pay. That’s, for me, you know, because that was something that for me personally that I kind of struggled with. I’ve talked to Bubba about it, who has tried to talk me off the ledge a couple of times and made me feel better about the situation, but those are things that I would like to see happen in the future. And that’s kind of a taboo subject anyway because we don’t talk amongst ourselves about money and pay too much, but I would like to see that. I can possibly, in my gut, see Roman and Brock getting much more, maybe double, if not more.”
H/T to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.
