Jamie Hayter says women wrestlers are ‘under the microscope’ more than men
AEW’s Jamie Hayter recently opened up and addressed the criticism narrative that both men and women wrestlers face.
In a recent interview with Soundsphere Magazine, Hayter opened up on the progress women’s wrestling has experienced in the last few years. While Hayter claimed that there have been changes, she persisted in the available room for improvement.
“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.”
Calling out how women wrestlers are often more criticized than their male counterparts, Hayter added, “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, 30, is currently in a tag-team with fellow British wrestler, Alex Windsor. Known as The Brawling Birds, they recently defeated The IInspiration (Cassie Lee & Jessie McKay) on their Dynamite debut on March 4, 2026.
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