Chavo Guerrero Jr. Loves The Growth of Women’s Wrestling, Talks Training GLOW Cast

– Chavo Guerrero Jr. spoke with iNews about his work training the cast of GLOW and doing the fight coordinating. The highlights are below:

On training the cast of the show: “I just assumed everybody knew the rules of wrestling. [Laughs] After about a week, somebody went to pin the other person, and was like ‘how do we do it?’ I ended up stopping practice, and I had to explain ‘this is how you win’ and ‘when you go outside [the ring] you have a 10-count to get back in’. “To make sure they were safe, I had to build their trust. After I established that ‘I’ll never make you do anything that I don’t feel 100% confident that you can do’, they were down for anything.”

On how long he had to train the cast: “We had five days a week from about five weeks before the show even started filming. I had them in the ring for eight hours a day. I wasn’t teaching them to have a WrestleMania match, I was teaching them to look like they knew what they were doing on camera.”

on the growth of women’s wrestling: “It’s not just women’s wrestling; it’s women empowerment right now. Five or six years ago, women weren’t even allowed to fight in [mixed martial arts competition] UFC, and now you have Ronda Rousey, the biggest name in UFC, drawing the biggest numbers. We all have a mother, a wife, or a sister who would whup any of our butts. We all know they’re a lot stronger than we are, so now that Hollywood’s writing about it, I love it.”