Maria Speaks on Divas Being Undervalued & Not Getting Enough Time

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It’s the old age story: Divas not getting enough TV time. In the past few weeks it has become something of a prevalent theme here at Diva Dirt with record-breakingly miniscule matches on Raw in March. We often wonder how do the Divas feel? Are they just as frustrated as us? Well, as a Diva who was there for five years, who better than Maria Kanellis to answer that question?

Speaking in a new interview with The Sun, Maria comments on the Divas being undervalued as performers and not getting enough time on television. Excerpt below:

“In the WWE I was a little bit stifled at times.

“I wasn’t allowed to do as much as I wanted to do. I had all these great, creative ideas and was constantly entering them into the WWE creative, but I couldn’t use a lot of them.

“The Divas weren’t given enough time, which I think is a horrible, horrible disadvantage that the girls have. I felt like I was held back — all the time.

“If you look back at Trish Stratus or Lita, or back in the day when there was Ivory or any of the women of the past, they got a lot more time than the girls do now.

“I remember watching a match with Gail Kim and Lita the match lasted 10 minutes. On TV. It wasn’t PPV or anything but they got 10 minutes.

“I wonder what would really happen if the Divas were given that much time.

“I don’t know if it’s that they think the Divas can’t sell tickets, but I truly believe in the Divas division and always will. I think they are missing out on a lot of talent right there.

“They’re not going to know what they are missing until it’s gone.”

Maria added: “That’s one reason I’m not sad they fired me. I got eight minutes of time on an MMA show to just talk to people and that was amazing. WWE never gave me eight minutes the entire time I was there.”

I don’t know what more I can add that we haven’t said a billion times before but you can definitely sense that Maria was frustrated while she was in WWE and if that’s the case, who knows how the current girls feel. I would expect it’s something along the same lines. You could try asking the Divas what they think but I’m sure you’ll just get the standard Kelly Kelly answer of, “I love my job!” Great to see Maria bat for and advocate for the Divas now that she’s no longer under contract and doesn’t need to be politically correct.

Sign women that can wrestle and they'll get more time

WWE doesnt care about wrestling anymore. the ladies are just eye candy nowadays..

see now i disagree Dead...the have 8 great wrestlers, and 2 or 3 ok ones that are capable of holding a match together for 10 minutes...yet they dont get it

She seems to not realize that most of the women they push can't fucking wrestle! So the matches are cut short, so they don't kill themselves. If they stopped using women like Gail Kim & Natalya as fillers, and let them actually wrestle then the matches would be longer, but instead wwe would rather push chicks the Bella's, Eve, & Maryse.

actually Maryse and Rosa are really the only girls who can't wrestle. i've been watching Superstars regularly and the Bellas have been looking really good in the ring lately. they have talent. Eve also has potential as she was doing good work on Smackdown and her Superstars match a few weeks ago was good. on Smackdown it's a little better for the divas only they don't have enough over there so they get left off TV too much. if you want to see good diva matches watch Superstars. whenever there's a diva match they always give it a good length and i'm nearly always impressed.

see now what Tank says makes more sense
WWE HAVE the damn talent...they just push the ones that make Vinces decrepid old dick rise

OMG YOU BITCH MARYSE OWNS ALL OKAY!!!! SHE IS IN THE LEAGUE OF MICHELLE!!! YOU BITCHES JUST HATIN

Maryse

I can't believe that nutbag compared Maryse with two left feet Rosa??? Really??

Maryse is better then Kelly, The Bella's and Rosa.....period

thats what you think.....tbh i can barely seperate Kelly and Maryse as far as wrestling ability goes...both throw weak as ass strikes....and both have their one move of doom a DDT and a headscissor

I GOT ME A GAGA! wrote:: She seems to not realize that most of the women they push can't fucking wrestle! So the matches are cut short, so they don't kill themselves. If they stopped using women like Gail Kim & Natalya as fillers, and let them actually wrestle then the matches would be longer, but instead wwe would rather push chicks the Bella's, Eve, & Maryse.

Agreed. They really need to start pushing the women who actually CAN wrestle. I think its sad they dont.

I agree that the wwe has a great roster of divas that can wrestle they just push the wrong ones and make the better wrestlers lose to the not so good wrestlers.

I wish they would stop that and let most of the divas matches at least get 4-7 minutes of in ring action [entrances and aftermatch don't count!] if not more. That would greatly elevate the division.

Of course if Kelly is in there facing Maryse one on one I would expect it to not go long since they are not good enough to put together a great match that is 4 minutes or so.

CM Dead, Your Savior wrote:: Sign women that can wrestle and they'll get more time

I guess that's why Michelle McCool is currently the Queen of Divas.

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