Better Wrestler #3

[mike adamle]

Originally Posted by Destor Let me be super clear: this is not about entitlement. Women are only entitled to the screen time that is dictated by demand for their act. Trish was the first to propell that demand on par with male acts.

Sable was pretty huge around the time she hit Playboy, as was Chyna, Miss Elizabeth? Trish Just did more than them, but they were all main event women at one point. I should've added Elizabeth to the list.

And they were given the 3 minute matches when she was there, the only exception would be a handful of Trish's matches.

[Destor]

Originally Posted by mike adamle Sable was pretty huge around the time she hit Playboy, as was Chyna, Miss Elizabeth? Trish Just did more than them, but they were all main event women at one point. I should've added Elizabeth to the list. And they were given the 3 minute matches when she was there, the only exception would be a handful of Trish's matches.

Sable has a place on the mt Rushmore of modern women's wrestling, Chyna as well. They led to Trish. Neither we're big draws but Sable brought women back to the product and Chyna validated the gender. Neither case takes away from Triah however. Miss Elizabeth is out of place in this conversation.

(3min w/ entrances =/= 3 min matches ftr. Most tv matches were 3-7min at that time. Divas matches post Trish were 3min w/entrances. Horrid times.)

Of course none of this refutes that they were competing for men's time. Chyna worked men directly and Sable too fought for men's time no different than the women who came before or since.

Pre-Sable women werent on the show. They arent under obligation to give women time every week. Since 98 weve seen big strides in the value on women's wrestling. While Trish was on thw roster they would give a solid 15min per show to Trish's segement plus another 7 to whomever they were building up to face her down the road. Thats a sizable piece of the pie. Especially then.

Agaim you are coming from a place that women are somehow entitled to 20 min a night and thats revisionist history at best.