Raquel Rodriguez Agrees With Charlotte Flair On Age 'double Standard' Between Male And Female Wrestlers

Charlotte Flair pushed backmost connected what she believed was a double modular successful nan pro wrestling manufacture erstwhile it came to her property and immoderate conception she’s astatine nan backmost extremity of her career.

She pointed to respective of her antheral colleagues, including Cody Rhodes, Roman Reigns, CM Punk and John Cena successful a file for The Players' Tribune. 

She wrote that nan adjacent measurement for female competitors "isn’t nan aforesaid magnitude of TV segments, aliases main events, aliases titles aliases money aliases opportunities arsenic men. The adjacent large measurement is nan aforesaid magnitude of years arsenic men."

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Raquel Rodriguez slams Chelsea Green during Wrestlemania 39 Night 2 astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood, Calif., April 2, 2023. (Joe Camporeale/USA Today Sports)

Raquel Rodriguez, who will beryllium a portion of nan all-female premium unrecorded event, Evolution, connected Sunday, told Fox News Digital successful a caller question and reply she agreed pinch Flair’s appraisal and praised nan legendary pro wrestler for her vulnerability and bravery for putting her bosom connected nan line.

"I do work together pinch her," Rodriguez said. "I do work together location is simply a small spot of a double modular there. I do consciousness like, because we are women, we are told, astatine a definite age, 'You person to stop. At a definite age, you should beryllium reasoning astir different things, having kids, getting married, immoderate it is. At a definite age, you shouldn’t beryllium pushed successful nan main communicative anymore. You had your time. 

"I do spot thing incorrect pinch that because location are men connected nan different broadside that are aging gracefully, and aging for illustration good vino and truthful are nan women. But they are getting utilized a small much and put successful these situations wherever nan women conscionable person to support trying to compete and perpetually being put successful that unit cooker of performing and accelerating, and it is difficult."

Raquel Rodriguez enters nan ringing during Monday Night RAW astatine Nationwide Arena June 23, 2025, successful Columbus, Ohio.  (Rich Freeda/WWE via Getty Images)

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Rodriguez explained that pinch aging comes longer times to remainder and recuperate, and nan imaginable of performing for illustration a gymnast successful nan ringing lessens.

"It is difficult because, you know, pinch property besides comes much request of remainder and recuperation. And we can’t do arsenic galore things for illustration these beautiful gymnasts that are successful NXT flipping successful and extracurricular of nan ring," she said. 

"Older women, they are not going to beryllium capable to execute those kinds of feats, but location is different ways and purposes that our superstars tin proceed to execute and supply for nan WWE company, and I spot that for each of our women. 

"They are truthful talented, and it has taken truthful overmuch clip and truthful overmuch difficult activity to build their commencement to wherever it is at. And I deliberation they merit to support their commencement up location and to person it pushed moreover much if their activity ethic and their stars is asking for it, yea 100%."

Rodriguez will beryllium a portion of Evolution this clip around. She was still successful nan WWE Performance Center for nan first all-female premium unrecorded arena successful 2016.

Raquel Rodriguez during nan Women’s Royal Rumble astatine WWE Royal Rumble astatine Lucas Oil Stadium successful Indianapolis Feb. 1, 2025. (Joe Camporeale/Imagn Images)

She and Roxanne Perez will take sides their tag-team titles successful a fatal four-way lucifer against Flair and Alexa Bliss, Sol Ruca and Zaria and Kairi Sane and Asuka.

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