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GLOW Founder David McClane On How Close the Netflix Show is to Reality

December 28, 2018 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas
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– GLOW founder David McClane spoke with Wrestling Inc for a new interview discussing the promotion and the Netflix series of the same name. Highlights are below:

On the resurgence of GLOW and women’s wrestling: “Anybody who knows me knows that I use a phrase if I like something: It’s a 10. In this case, it’s a 12. Little Egypt, who is a wrestler in GLOW, really was the foundation and force that made that happen. Without her gathering the troops to participate in that doc, and then that doc being the seed that the producers at Netflix saw, there would never be a GLOW biographical series on Netflix. To that effect, I don’t belive the WWE or WOW would be where they are today in women’s wrestling [without GLOW]. Women’s wrestling is more successful and acknowledged for being a sport and activity that one looks at and admires than any other time in wrestling history because of the GLOW documentary. That doc captured the essence of the sisterhood of women that participate in wrestling… The essence of that camaraderie has been captured in the Netflix programming which has spilled over to non-wreslting fans who appreciate what these women do.”

ON how close Bash is to him: “Not too. My fun vice was maybe a six-pack of beer, maybe a glass of wine. That was it. There was no drugs, no cocaine use. The director of GLOW’s vice was a good cigar. He didn’t smoke. He didn’t do any drugs. That said, it does capture the essence, spot on, of the camaraderie of the performers and the struggles. It does capture that we were always struggling to keep it and get it on TV. Even now, there was always a pushback, “Oh, there is women’s wrestling. It’s out there. Who needs a one hour program dedicated to it?”

On the show’s drug robot: “Were there any robots back then? Hell, I’ve never even seen a robot today, definitely not one dispensing anything of that nature. But they captured the essence of the times. I remember flying down to Miami Beach, going to a nightclub, and I couldn’t believe the amount of cocaine being ingested in the restroom. So, they did capture the times of the era in which that was being done. We didn’t have any of that taking place in WOW.”