Former WWE Superstar CJ "Lana" Perry recently spoke with Liam Alexander-Stewart (@LiamAStewart) of Inside The Ropes for an in-depth interview covering all things pro wrestling.
During the one-on-one sit-down discussion, the women's wrestling star and wife of AEW performer Miro called out WWE for their double standard in terms of how they handled Brock Lesnar walking out just before a live television taping compared to the walk-out at a past live TV taping of Sasha Banks and Naomi.
Featured below is an excerpt from the interview where she touches on this topic with her thoughts. Additionally, the complete video archive of the new Lana interview with Inside The Ropes is also embedded below.
“Yeah, I mean, I think it’s a good question. You know, it’s really interesting now that Brock just walked out last week and so my question is, what’s the difference between Brock walking out and Sasha and Naomi walking out? You know why weren’t the commentators asking, was Brock unprofessional? You know? Was Brock frozen in limbo? No. He’s actually going to main event, one of the biggest pay per views of the year.
“So I think, again, that this controversy goes much bigger than just a Vince McMahon conversation and it goes to like, is there double standard in wrestling still?. We see it in Hollywood. There’s been big Charlize Theron, Jennifer Lawrence, when they took a stand and go, ‘Hey, we’re not going to work for less than these men.’ Charlize Theron shouldn’t be working less than Chris Hemsworth anyway. You know, good thing she stood up and said, ‘Hey, I want equality.’”
"It’s just like to me, I’m like there’s just a double standard between how what men can do, what men get away, with the men’s pay and the women and I don’t think that’s cool. You know, they dragged them through the mud. I understand that probably Vince was offended by what they did. But at the end of the day, it just it was real petty, you know? And I got my girls back, like Sasha and Naomi. I just think that there needs to be a change in wrestling, you see? Sure. There’s a long list of stuff. Misconduct with other people, other men in that business that are high up on the on the on the whole. What about that?”
Check out the complete CJ "Lana" Perry interview with Inside The Ropes via the video embedded below courtesy of the official YouTube channel of the digital media outlet.
