Former WWE announcer Lilian Garcia recently did an interview with Daily DDT to talk about several professional wrestling topics. Garcia discussed how she would love to see another WWE Evolution pay-per-view (PPV), the progression women’s wrestling has seen over the years, and Ronda Rousey coming to WWE.
Here are the highlights:
Would love to see another WWE Evolution PPV: “I would love to see it come back,” Garcia said. “I think the women proved that they can hold a pay-per-view on their own, but if not, I don’t think that’s a bad thing either in the fact that the women are now present in every single pay-per-view. It’s almost not even needed if it doesn’t come back. Either way, I think it’s going to be okay.
“I just think it was beautiful to do it and establish it that very first year just to make a statement and from there the company has continued to… I mean, think about it, the women main evented WrestleMania this year. That’s the way you continue that. They’ve continued with the Money In The Bank matches, the ladder matches, Elimination Chamber, all those kind of matches that keep showing off the women’s capabilities. I think it’s great, and like I said, whether they have another one or not, I don’t think that’s a big deal.”
Progression of women’s wrestling: “Well, [Evolution and WrestleMania] was incredible,” Garcia said. “Obviously, I have been at WrestleMania for so many years and Evolution, but Evolution definitely did something to just put a stamp of approval. That’s what I think felt so good to see that every match I was announcing, we were all like, ‘Woah, this is really happening!’ I never imagined an all-women’s pay-per-view and I look back and go, ‘Wow, how small-minded.’ I don’t know why I never imagined it, so when it got announced, I was blown away. When it happened, I thought to myself, ‘Oh, this is so natural.’
“But that’s our culture and I don’t mean just America. I’m talking the world, but we’re coming little by little where it’s happening and now it’s becoming a habit to see women competing or an all-women’s pay-per-view. There would be times at ringside that I was the only one woman to come out the entire show. To see the evolution of that where no women were represented at all except for me to see the evolution of an all-women’s pay-per-view, it hit me really hard like, ‘Wow, this is incredible.'”
Ronda Rousey: “I think the women are working so hard and doing so, so good,” Garcia said. “I can’t tell you whether [Rousey is] helping or not, I have no idea. I think it’s cool that she came. I love that she came. I respect the fact that she now wants to raise a family and I know that the women that are there now are just focused on their absolute best and are killing it. Becky Lynch, Charlotte, all of them. So proud of them.”
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