Impact Hall of Famer Gail Kim, 41, had a lot to say about the WWE and her fellow wrestlers during her appearance on "Women's Pro Wrestling Weekly.” Kim, who left wrestling in February, explains her reasons for retiring.

"My back was starting to deteriorate and basically what happened was I just couldn't walk after a couple of matches here and there. I never had an MRI and I never knew what was going on in my body for so long, and then it was coming to point where I was always wrestling and not being able to walk after,” she says.

After getting an MRI, she discovered her L4 and L5 dics were seriously deteriorated. At that point, she decided to have surgery. “Basically, I made the decision that I didn't want to keep on going, where I had to have that major surgery because that minor surgery; he (the doctor) told me I can get back in the ring in 7 weeks and that 7 weeks turned into 7 months," she says.

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Kim, who currently works as a producer for Impact is helping female wrestlers coordinate their matches. “I always wanted to make the matches, in some way different unique and interesting. I never wanted to have that basic match. I just wanted us to stand out in some way or another, whether it was storytelling or interesting wrestling moves. So, I tried to incorporate that and the girls know my personality too. I'm very direct and I don't sugar coat anything… I went from working with these girls and I've always kind of felt like a motherly, older sister type and I was already transitioning in that role anyways for years, so it felt like a very natural thing to happen," she says.

She sees the WWE’s current focus on women as a calculated maneuver led by Stephanie McMahon, the Chief Brand Officer of WWE. “Stephanie (McMahon) could have been fighting for us a long time ago. She was there every single time I worked there and she had zero interest in fighting for the women back then. So, for them, everything is business motivated. So, them having this women's revolution, and it's from the fans as well… the fans did demand it through social media and Vince heard it and made it happen. And I think finally the girls are getting treated the way they want to get treated."

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Kim is also outspoken about the pay disparity between women and men in wrestling. "They put their bodies through the same thing the guys go through. These girls should be getting paid equally,” she says. “I think if there are two girls that are going to main event a pay-per-view, they should be getting paid the same amount as two guys main-eventing. I mean, they are obviously important enough to main event and they are good enough to main event… so they should be getting paid."

Kim, who was the first female inductee into the TNA Hall of Fame, would have liked to face off against some of the current female WWE stars, such as Allie, Rosemary, Taya, Charlotte and Asuka.

“There are so many girls that are really talented right now. There is such a huge generation now that want to be wrestlers and workers. And now Ember Moon, I just heard debuted last night. She's a great athlete too. There are so many girls. Charlotte, Sasha, Asuka those are probably my top three if you look at WWE."

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