The love story in AEW this 12 months between “Timeless” Toni Storm and “The Glamour” Mariah Might has concerned the occasional large kiss between these two girls, in addition to Stardom’s Mina Shirakawa.
Some of us who watched the exhibits have been upset by the kisses, for causes that I assume make no sense to me. Mariah addressed the backlash throughout an interview this week on the Wrestling with Freddie podcast.
Here’s what Mariah advised host Freddie Prinze Jr. about why these critics are manner off base in claiming that ladies’s wrestling was set again years by the kissing, courtesy of this transcription from Fightful:
“Such as you stated, I feel there’s a little bit of an archaic view on it and folks appear to assume we have now no autonomy of our our bodies. It’s my alternative who I kiss, it’s my alternative what I do. If I’m not comfy doing one thing, I might all the time say so. I keep in mind seeing the standard suspects being like, ‘Oh my god, that is setting girls’s wrestling again a lot.’ It’s like, no person made us do it. We selected to do it. That’s simply how we present affection to one another and we all the time have in our friendship. Like I stated, if I don’t wanna do one thing, I received’t. Myself, Mina, and Toni are three extraordinarily adorned girls’s wrestlers who off our personal backs have develop into very profitable everywhere in the world. To attempt to inform us we’re setting girls’s wrestling again was fairly loopy to me and such as you stated, the numbers don’t lie and I feel myself, Mina, and Toni for the very best rated segments for about eight weeks in a row as we must always.”
Mariah drove the purpose residence by stating that her kiss with Mina on AEW Dynamite in April wasn’t even a artistic concept that was pitched to them; they did it on their very own.
As somebody who watched WWE very intently when girls’s wrestling approached its lowest factors, it’s clear that the kisses between Mina, Mariah, and Toni have been nothing just like the gratuitous HLA segments from WWE circa 2002, for instance. Most people who find themselves offended by these AEW segments are most likely simply telling on themselves, so far as I’m involved.
What do you make of Mariah’s tackle kissing Toni Storm and Mina Shirakawa in AEW? Let me know within the feedback beneath, Cagesiders.