Why Black Women Keep Getting Villainized in Pro Wrestling (Jade Cargill vs. Rhea Ripley)

Wrestling

Year2026

Duration11m

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Jade Cargill vs. Rhea Ripley and Wrestling Dirtsheet's DARK History of Demonizing Black Women #WWE #AEW #JadeCargill #WrestleMania #RheaRipley 💥Pro Wrestling Bits 💥 🤝🏾JOIN | 🎁Get a FREE PWB Sticker! | Opening Song by @cashjonny SOCIALS Instagram | Twitter | TikTok | Linktree | Forbes | 0:00 Intro 1:40 Tony Khan vs. Big Swole 3:06 WWE NXT beat AEW Dynamite by being Blacker 4:08 Sasha Banks and Naomi walk out of WWE 6:24 Bianca Belair booed during WrestleMania 41 Season 7:19 WrestleMania 42: Jade Cargill vs. Rhea Ripley on Twitter 10:32 Zero-Click Search vs Dirtsheets Jade Cargill is back for her third WrestleMania tour, this time as world champion. But WWE's Black renaissance has also highlighted one of pro wrestling's ugliest issues, particularly when it comes to media coverage of Black women: And that's Honky Behavior. The Internet Wrestling Crackerverse is always finding new and ex-whiting ways to paint Black women as the villain, but that trick just isn't as effective in 2026. Black Twitter has Jade Cargill's back more than ever before, and every dogwhistling narrative against Cargill is blown asunder. No, Jade isn't too big for her britches. She isn't difficult to deal with or a pain in the ass. Jade Cargill knows her worth and isn't here to play this Old Boys Network game of paying dues and kissing feet. All these time-honored, unwritten rules only benefit the whitest of pro wrestlers. They need these politics to keep their spot since they were—and always have been—athletically and culturally inferior to their their Black peers. The Trick Williams, Oba Femis, Je'Von Evans and Jade Cargills of the world are here to turn these little Yakubian backstage games into Spades or Dice. No business is quicker to weaponize confidence against Black wrestlers than white wrestling but those days have been over. You want uncontested white excellence? Go to AEW. Today, we're gonna talk about pro wrestling's history of demonizing Black women, and why the dirtsheet media's latest attempt to do the same to Jade Cargill blew up