Gail Kim Talks About What Triple H Told Her When She Left WWE

Former Impact Wrestling star and former WWE Superstar recently did an interview with Kevin Eck for PressBoxOnline to discuss her time with the WWE. During the interview it was brought up that Vince McMahon doesn’t like for women to wrestle the same way the guys do inside the ring. Kim talked about her own experience with that, as well as what Triple H told her before she left the company:

KE: When I worked on the WWE creative team — I started in 2011 right after you left the company — Vince McMahon said several times that “no one wants to see the girls fight like the guys.” Was that something that was ever said or implied to you while you were there?
 
GK: “It wasn’t politically correct to say out loud, nor would they say that straight up, but — I’m not going to say which agent said it — but they would tell us that Vince doesn’t like that. I remember specifically a match I had on “Superstars” with Jillian [Hall]. We got seven minutes, which was rare back then — we usually got three minutes. There’s no way to tell a story in the ring in that time, so when we had a match on “Superstars” it was like a pay-per-view match [laughs].
“Jillian and I had awesome chemistry, so we’d want to wrestle. We wanted to do a superplex off the top rope, and the agent — again, I’m not going to name names — said, “Go ahead. I’ll take the heat for it,” because he knew Vince wouldn’t really be happy with that. Now I heard WWE has announced a Money in the Bank match for the girls. I honestly feel like [Triple H] has done so much for the girls, because he started that whole thing in NXT with the Four Horsewomen. When I left WWE, he was one of the people who was so positive. He told me, “You’re talented and don’t let anyone else tell you any different.” I was very flattered and glad that he respected women’s wrestling.”
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