Gail Kim has been in hot water on social media from fans.
The former multi-time TNA Knockouts Champion addressed Jim Cornette’s response to Asian women wrestlers. More in particular former inaugural AEW Women’s World Champion, Riho.
Kim had made a response saying she didn’t like Riho’s school girl/little girl image, addressed an early day in AEW where the camera man had the camera up her skirt, and said Riho isn’t believable against bigger opponents. This all led to discourse back and forth between Kim and fans for a few days on the X social media platform.
While speaking on HUGE POP! Wrestling Show, Kim said the following –
“I was not, in any way, saying anything bad about her. I was talking about my discomfort in a segment that I had watched, probably when AEW started, because I don’t watch AEW currently,
— I saw that one segment and I remember just feeling uncomfortable… Yes, she appeared to look very young, and then dressed, in that particular match, like a little girl, in my mind, and then when the cameraman — I think she was going up to the top rope — and I remember the cameraman shooting up her skirt, which, you know, happened a lot in my early wrestling days, where I had to go tell the cameraman or the production truck, ‘Hey! Stop shooting up my ass.’
When I said she wasn’t believable in that match, it was just ‘cause I felt uncomfortable from the start, if you get my drift, in terms of — in this age of the child — you know, Jeffrey Epstein-era… I just felt really uncomfortable and then so, that’s what I meant by it and I actually had AEW — former people that worked there, say to me, ‘I agreed with you. I would be backstage and I felt the same way.’
I can’t judge what type of wrestler I think she is today, and I’ve admittedly said that I haven’t watched their product in a really long time so, I’m happy to watch the product again and give my opinion on that, so, I would just hope that people have open minds…”