WWE Star Wants Progress As She Defends Controversial Show

This controversial WWE show has fans, critics, and wrestlers divided, but one star says it is the way to progress the business.

WWE launched a docu-series on Netflix in July last year, which pulls the curtains back on how the wrestling business is run, showing in stark detail how storylines are created, the wrestlers’ real-life injuries, and the challenges of a big-budget TV production overall. The series is called WWE: Unreal.

Unreal has been renewed for a second season after a successful first season. Many fans want to see exactly how everything works by looking deep into the back-end of wrestling, which this show enables them to do, owing to its success.

Since everyone knows wrestling is scripted, many fans and critics feel it’s important to maintain “kayfabe”, at least in some capacity, to keep the business alive and help suspend audiences’ disbelief long enough for them to care.

These same fans and critics are not comfortable with WWE exposing all its secrets with Unreal. WWE megastar Seth Rollins himself stated in an interview that, despite being involved in the show, his old-school mentality keeps him from supporting it and has drawn lines for himself regarding the extent of revealing things. Some of his colleagues are on the other side of the argument, though, and one major example is Chelsea Green.

WWE Star Chelsea Green Defends WWE: Unreal

Chelsea has been very vocal in her support of the show, even stating in an interview that she would like a version of it to be made specifically for the women’s locker room.

The 34-year-old star feels that it’s a way for the business to move forward and to get new people interested in wrestling by having them appreciate the intelligence behind the production of the longest-running TV show ever.

In a recent interview with Denise Salcado, Green elaborated on her opinion from the “for” side of the debate.

I just feel like wrestling is basically the longest soap opera known to mankind. Why would you not want to peel back the curtain and watch how the longest episodic television show is made? I don’t understand.” Citing real examples, she claimed, “Total Divas was one of the best shows on E! So, the proof is in the pudding, we do like when the curtain is pulled back, we do like an inside look.

Green then makes. a point about how Hollywood doesn’t take wrestling seriously by not considering wrestlers to be formidable actors, and neither does the sports world, because it isn’t a real sport.

I think it’s just this funny balance of people wanting to protect the business, but we’ve got to progress forward, and unscripted reality TV is progressing forward, pulling the curtain back is pressing forward. Showing, especially the entertainment industry that we belong, because I think we’ve been the black sheep, Sports doesn’t want to claim us, you see that we’re not necessarily at the forefront of the Espys or things like that, right?

We’re not really in Sports Illustrated all the time, and then Hollywood is like, ‘Yeah, you’re not a TV show, you’re not real actors, we’re not going to have you (be) a part of the SAG Union and things like that.

Green says that WWE: Unreal will help change the stigmas against wrestling and help it progress.

I personally think that moments like Unreal are what are going to push this industry forward and branch out into sports and into Hollywood in ways that we didn’t know it could. And also, we’re going to get new fans, it’s on Netflix, hello, new fans are going to watch this, and they’re going to tune in to Raw and SmackDown, PLEs and NXTs, and there’s nothing bad about that.

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