ESPN takes Will Cain out context in equal pay argument during USWNT award segment

The U.S. ladies’s nationwide soccer group on Wednesday obtained the Arthur Ashe Braveness Award at ESPN’s annual award present, the ESPYS, for his or her struggle for equal pay with the lads’s group and elevating consciousness for pay inequity and social injustices in each subject.

The noble trigger was middle stage in Los Angeles, and it got here with a montage displaying how and why the gamers determined to take up the problem of equal pay and their lawsuit in opposition to U.S. Soccer. 

The montage then talked about the “critics pushing again at them” displaying tweets from those that disagreed and Will Cain, a former ESPN host now with Fox Information Channel, providing his opinion on the matter. The montage included this quote from Cain.

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A visitor, Carla Overbeck, Christen Press, Julie Foudy, Briana Scurry, Shannon Boxx, Lorrie Truthful, Heather O’Reilly, Sam Mewis, Tobin Heath, Stephanie McCaffrey and a visitor of the USWNT, recipients of the Arthur Ashe Award, at The 2023 ESPYS held at Dolby Theatre on July 12, 2023 in Los Angeles. (Christopher Polk/Selection by way of Getty Pictures)

“I believe equal pay is a ridiculous idea in and of itself. Soccer, for higher or worse, on the lads’s facet throughout this globe is way more in style than the ladies’s,” Cain is quoted as saying.

The clip then confirmed U.S. ladies’s soccer icon Brandi Chastain, saying “Oh, we get that argument on a regular basis.”

ESPN didn’t take Cain’s full argument, and it was seen on social media. State Freedom Caucus Community communication director Greg Value discovered the total clip from Cain’s take and posted it on Twitter on Wednesday evening.

Here’s what the present “Fox & Friends Weekend” host mentioned within the clip.

“I’ll inform you why it’s like this. Now there’s two issues, initially. While you discuss, as Trevor Scales simply laid out, the bonus distinction between the lads’s group and the ladies’s group. Between what a winner, if it had been the U.S. males would get within the World Cup, and the ladies.

Host Will Cain as former NFL participant Tim Tebow visits “Fox & Mates” to advertise his new kids’s ebook “Mission Potential” at Fox Information Channel Studios on Could 17, 2022 in New York Metropolis. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Pictures)

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“The ladies obtained paid out from a pool of $30 million from the Women’s World Cup. The lads would draw from a pool of $400 million. Why is that? It’s as a result of the Males’s World Cup generates $6 billion in income. The Ladies’s World Cup generates $131 million in income. If you wish to discuss pay disparity, the Ladies’s World Cup gamers receives a commission out 20% of the whole income. The lads receives a commission out 7%. As a share level, they’re getting way more. 

“The issue is, for anyone wanting equal pay, and by the way in which, I believe equal pay is a ridiculous idea in and of itself. If the ladies generate extra income, they need to receives a commission greater than the lads. Don’t attempt for getting the identical, attempt for getting what you’re price. And should you’re price extra then get extra.

“And so what I’m saying to you proper now could be, soccer, for higher or worse, on the lads’s facet throughout this globe is way more in style than ladies’s soccer.”

When former ESPN host Charly Arnolt introduced up the rankings between the ladies’s and males’s World Cups, Cain and former host Ryan Hollins each mentioned that was within the U.S.

“And that’s evaluating a Ladies’s World Cup Closing that featured the US in opposition to a Males’s World Cup Closing in the US that didn’t function the U.S. group.”

Megan Rapinoe and Allie Lengthy rejoice throughout a Victory Ticker Tape Parade for the U.S. Ladies’s Nationwide Soccer Group down the Canyon of Heroes on July 10, 2019 in New York Metropolis. (Debra L Rothenberg/WireImage)

ESPN didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.

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Cain wrote in response: “It’s nonetheless true. Nonetheless unpopular. Full context. Full reality.”