WWE Superstar Daniel Bryan was a recent guest on Booker T‘s Heated Conversations podcast. During the interview, Bryan, who recently entered a storyline with his wife Brie Bella, was asked whether he thinks that Nikki and Brie Bella get enough respect from the WWE Universe:
“I don’t think so. Obviously, I’m very close to the situation and I know that a lot of hardcore wrestling fans look at them and their era as a negative on women’s wrestling. Brie [Bella] was in the ring when the ring when the hashtag ‘give divas a chance’ because they were only in like a 30-second match. I think people were frustrated with this idea that the women weren’t being given more opportunities. They worked very hard for that kind of thing and there were part of this transition into divas to women’s wrestling.”
Bryan also noted the success behind E! Network’s Total Divas and Total Bellas and its crossover appeal to a new audience:
“But I also think that… I get women coming up to me and saying ‘oh my god, you’re Daniel Bryan, right? From the show’. And that’s how I know that they’re not necessarily wrestling fans, they’re Total Divas or Total Bellas fans. I think exposing our product to a different audience is always good. That’s one of things that I think Vince [McMahon] will say, and a lot of people will say, is that one of the great things about things like Total Divas and Total Bellas is it exposes WWE talent to a whole new audience of people.”
You can listen to the full interview below:
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