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WWE Is Looking for Its Next Female Superstar the Old Fashioned Way: With a Reality Show

WWE has talked a big game about the Women's Evolution, a WWE branding opportunity that touts the company's accomplishments in treating its female performers as equal to its male ones, an accomplish notable only because the company spent decades making its female performers compete in bra and panties matches or get on their hands and knees and bark like a dog. But recent developments, including holding a giant PPV in a country where women aren't allowed to wrestle and filming backstage segments where former women's champion Alexa Bliss is walked in on by an intern while topless, seem to indicate that WWE is interested into returning to its roots of using women as sexy props rather than actual wrestlers.

And now, the company has announced that it will look for its next female superstar not amongst the ranks of hardworking women already in the wrestling business, but rather with a reality show from the producers of Total Divas and Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

From a WWE press release on their website:

WWE is teaming up with Bunim-Murray Productions – the company behind Total Bellas, Total Divas and "Keeping up With The Kardashians" – to find the next female Superstar who has what it takes to go toe-to-toe with the likes of Ronda Rousey, Sasha Banks and Becky Lynch.

Casting is underway for a forthcoming reality show that will document the search for the next great female competitor.

Now don't get us wrong. We watch Total Divas. We watch Total Bellas. We love trash television, a genre to which both pro wrestling and reality TV belong. We just feel that, while a great way to promote existing wrestlers, it's maybe not the best way to find the next one, and taken with WWE's other recent action, speaks to a possible change in the company's philosophy, just like that 2 minute match on the last episode of Smackdown where former women's champion Naomi was pinned after bumping her head on the ring post, something male wrestlers do an average of 17 times per match with no consequence.

Can the next bra and panties match be far behind? Tune in to find out!

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