Rob Van Dam explained why WWE’s women’s division has exceeded expectations and become one of the most impressive parts of today’s product.
Speaking in a recent interview with GamesHub, Van Dam was asked whether there were any WWE stars he felt were underutilized in 2025. He talked about how much the women’s division has evolved over the years.
“I mean that it seems like that’s always their job, they’re over obligated, they got so much TV time and they gotta figure out how to use everybody. Nobody really comes to mind. I feel like I prefer watching the ladies actually a lot more because they’ve really stepped it up.”
“If you go back to like 2001, when I came into WWE, the girls weren’t the best workers and a lot of wrestling fans would say that when the girls are on, that was their break to run to the kitchen or whatever, watching it”
He explained that women’s wrestling simply wasn’t at the same level during that era. “I didn’t know that girls could even move like they were fighting because they seemed so unnatural before, but they were hot, they get really hot girls.”
“That’s not the same thing as someone that’s a tomboy that fought with their brothers and grew up that way. So now they have so many girls that qualify that I don’t see how they’re gonna use all of them because they gotta beat each other.”
Rob Van Dam says women’s wrestling has closed the gap
RVD highlighted Saraya as a key example of someone who helped elevate women’s wrestling. “We had Saraya on here recently and she’s a prime example of someone who’s taken the game by storm when she was wrestling. And the NXT too, watching the girls that are coming up, I’m so impressed with them and they seem like they’ve closed the gap and lady wrestling might be just as popular as men wrestling someday.”
“David McClain had the idea with WOW forever ago, but he just took actresses and then tried to make them into wrestlers and then the quality of the matches from a wrestler’s point of view was always shitty when they didn’t have the actual wrestlers, but then now I feel like the style of today’s product is more of a hybrid.”
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