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World Wrestling Entertainment returns to the Extraco Events Center at 7:30 p.m. Friday with WWE Live and plenty of familiar names on the card: Kalisto, the Lunatic Fringe Dean Ambrose, Rusev, Demon Kane, Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn.

That’s only part of the picture, though. Also wrestling are Sasha Banks, Becky Lynch, Summer Rae, Danna Brooke and Alicia Fox.

In a world where women once were kept outside the ring, they’re now firmly involved inside it, thanks in part to determined women and fans who lobbied to see them.

“We want to show the world was we can do,” Sasha “The Boss” Banks said. “We’re not divas anymore, but superstars.”

Actually, that’s probably Divas and Superstars, two of the labels WWE uses to categorize its fighters and a shorthanded way that Banks traces her rise to the top. The Boston native said she’s been wrestling since she was 10 years old, but never had a role model in her field.

“Women were usually eye candy in wrestling,” she said.