Shayna Baszler ‘Open’ To More Intergender Wrestling

Shayna Baszler is hard as nails. With a background in MMA to back up her skills in a wrestling ring, you’d assume she’d be willing to fight anyone who crossed her path. And you’d be right.

In a recent interview with Daily DDT, the topic of intergender wrestling came up, with Baszler recently taking on Reginald on WWE Raw:

“[Intergender wrestling] is an interesting topic and it always is,” Baszler said “As a mixed martial artist and a fighter, I was the only female on my fight team for years for the majority of my career. I’ve even entered submission wrestling tournaments and wrestled in the men’s division because the women in the women’s division weren’t as experienced, so I wanted to get my money’s worth in this tournament. This is not new to me or anyone else who trains in that sort of martial art to understand that a woman can compete with a male. That’s not a question and it’s surprising to me that this day and age that’s so hard for people to understand.”

Baszler continued:

"I am also in support of intergender wrestling when it makes sense and when I know the woman knows what they’re doing. I wouldn’t suggest that just anyone… I don’t know if it’s even appropriate to name names. I wouldn’t tell Lana to get in there with any male on the roster, but someone like myself who’s a technician and is experienced competing against males and I know how to balance technique against strength, it’s a little more fitting for someone like me.

“I’m not all Gung Ho, ‘All women should fight on the equal ground as the men.' If there are women who are trained to do that, I’m all for it. I think the argument for me is that people don’t necessarily believe all the time that a woman can balance out that male vs. female aspect. But it is possible and I will show that.”