Candice Michelle Says Women’s Wrestling Is Missing Femininity: ‘We Don’t Have To Do It The Way A Man Does’
Candice Michelle thinks wrestling is missing femininity.
Women’s wrestling has evolved in the last decade or so. More women are main-eventing shows and having big matches like their male counterparts, something that was missing during the Divas era. Candice Michelle feels this has driven women away from their feminine side, and she wants to see more of it.
Speaking on TMZ’s Inside the Ring, Michelle was asked if wrestling is missing some sexiness, where she explained she wants to see more femininity from the women.
“I think what we’re missing is a little bit more of the femininity. So what I mean by that is, we’ve pushed so hard, ‘Oh, women are equal to men.’ Like, we get equal time, equal pay. There’s a part of that. But at the end of the day, I want the men to be a little bit more masculine. I want them to be so masculine that I get to drop into my femininity a little bit. Some people look at that as sexiness. I have never. I mean, wrestling has never shied away from sexiness. If you look at WWE today or back then or TNA today or back then, every woman almost is hot. But I think there’s just a difference of how a woman moves. Like we don’t have to do it the way a man does.
We had this intergender tag match not too long ago on TNA. I just loved it because the men were so manly and the women were so great. But the men were like lifting the woman and they were flying even more. Then the man tries to save the woman and he can’t, and I was like, ‘Wow, this is like life.’ I just loved it so much. But the way TNA brought this out of like, the women are powerful and I want our men to be powerful too. I don’t want to be like, ‘We’re just as powerful.’ It’s like, no, we need both energies to make it beautiful.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Michelle said Melina was the toughest wrestler for her to work with. Fans can read more about it here.
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