Former AEW Women’s World Champion Jamie Hayter discusses the difference still between how women and men wrestlers are perceived by the public.
In an interview will Soundsphere Magazine, Hayter discusses how women in the industry get criticized way more than men from mistakes in the ring.
“There’s been a lot of changes for the better, but I can’t sit here and be like, ‘It’s so great now!’ because there’s just so much more work that can be done. But I can’t say that there haven’t been changes, because there have – and all the women have worked so hard for them. But there’s still stuff to be done.”
She continues, “I feel like as a woman, we are probably under the microscope a lot more than men are. If you have a bad match, then it’s like ‘Oh my god, you’re the worst wrestler ever’. Whereas a guy could have a bad match and it’s like, ‘Oh well’, or if you don’t look a certain way, then they don’t like that either.”
Hayter is currently in a tag team with Alex Windsor known collectively as the Brawling Birds. They have tag team gold aspirations.