Eva Marie was recently a guest on Complex’s “Out of Bounds,”. The show made headlines last week when the rumors of Ronda Rousey joining WWE were discussed. One of the hosts trashed Ronda and WWE, saying: “I have no respect for the WWE, it’s not a real sport. It’s embarrassing.”
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Eva Marie appeared on the show this week and defended wrestling against being called “fake” and claims that it isn’t a real sport. Here are some of the highlights.
Eva spoke about wrestling being called ‘fake’ and the differences between wrestling and acting:
“You have to put your body through a lot of physicality with wrestling. You’re saying you think it’s fake, however when you get in the ring, you’re really taking those bumps…Then when it comes to acting, you’re trying to get out of yourself and be a whole other person, which also helps with WWE, too, because you’re playing a character at the end of the day.”
On claims that wrestling isn’t a real sport:
“Some moves are [choreographed], so like you’ll go over your finish, whoever’s gonna win or lose because that’s predetermined. However, when you’re in there, usually you’re just going toe-to-toe. So like, if I have you in a headlock, then I’m telling you right then and there what we’re doing next. You have your producers in the back, adjusting to the crowd. ‘Hey, uh, actually we’re gonna go this way. Change the finish, change whatever you have going on.’ So you can’t really choreograph the dance because everything gets mixed up.”
Comparisons to other sports like the National Football League or the National Basketball Association:
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“NFL, NBA, they all have off-seasons. Wrestling doesn’t have an off-season. We’re on the road 209 days out of the year, performing in different cities every single night. Where you have your NBA, and NFL and major league and they’re taking charter flights going to the next city. We’re driving in rent-a-cars to the next city.”
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