Jade Cargill On Black Representation: ‘There Are More Black People In Wrestling Than Ever’

Jade Cargill says wrestling has more black wrestlers than ever.

The current WWE Women’s Champion was recently a guest on the Joe Budden podcast, where she shared her thoughts about the current representation of black women in wrestling.

Cargill says that while she didn’t have a black woman wrestler to look up to as a child, the business has more black wrestlers than ever before.

“It means the world. My idol growing up was Chyna because I didn’t have a lot of women that looked like me growing up. I’ve been muscular my entire life. To see a woman walk the stage, be so confident and calm – like aura coming through the screen – she just knew who she was. I was like, ‘I love that.’ Like, that’s cool.

I know because I didn’t see women that look like me growing up. So I didn’t have that black representation. We had Jazz, we had a lot of people, but I didn’t see them like that. I saw more of Chyna being the face of women’s wrestling because it transcended too when she was in there.

Most women wore bikinis. We had Sable. We had all these people, and she came in muscular, doing her dang thing. I think, right now… It’s more black people in wrestling than ever. We have Trick Williams out there doing a damn thing. We have Bobby Lashley out there doing a thing. We have Swerve [Strickland] doing a damn thing. We got Oba [Femi] doing a damn thing.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Jade Cargill discussed her critics. Fans can read more about it here.

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