86: Oral Sessions - The 2021 PWI Women’s 150 Top 5 Wrestlers Preview
The Sessions with Renée Paquette
Renée Paquette
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Pro Wrestling Illustrated’s Kristen Ashly joins Oral Sessions for a historic reveal: The top five wrestlers in PWI’s first-ever Top 150 for women’s wrestling! Hear all about the contentious selection process, who just missed the cut, and why a certain dentist didn’t rank as high as people will probably think she should have. Plus, Renee and Kristen sing the praises of the No. 1 wrestler, who may not be who you think it is. Take a listen and let the comment-section arguments begin!
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| 0:00.0 | the volume. |
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| 0:21.0 | Oh, baby, baby, baby. |
| 0:23.0 | We have a great episode of Oral Sessions today. |
| 0:26.0 | Because today, Pro Wrestling Illustrated is dropping their top 150 e-mail wrestlers of the year. |
| 0:36.0 | So I am joined on this episode by Kristen Ashley from PWI. |
| 0:40.0 | And we're breaking down the top five. |
| 0:42.0 | We're doing the reveal of the top five women wrestlers in the world according to PWI. |
| 0:48.0 | And what I love about this, I mean, recording this intro after I've already done the interview with Kristen |
| 0:54.0 | and talking about these top five amongst other things is how diverse it is from all the different promotions all across the land. |
| 1:04.0 | We're going worldwide here as they do. |
| 1:07.0 | Man, wrestling could not be better for women right now. |
| 1:10.0 | All of the opportunities, everyone's flourishing, everyone is thriving. |
| 1:14.0 | And just, you know, creating their own path, being those trailblazers. |
| 1:19.0 | And, you know, it's the top 150 right now, but there is no reason why we can't have the top 500 women wrestlers in the world in the very near future. |
| 1:29.0 | Because as I talked to Kristen, I found that it wasn't so easy to put together this list. |
| 1:33.0 | There's women that had to be left off that they wanted to keep on there. |
| 1:37.0 | And man, I can't even imagine them putting together the top 150 to top 100, the top 10 to the top five. |
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