Molly Holly On How She Approaches Producer Role In WWE

During a virtual signing for Highspots (via Post Wrestling), Molly Holly spoke about how she works as a producer in WWE and considers what casual fans might think. Here are highlights:

On working as a producer in WWE: “So I do look at it (role as a producer) as I’m the eyes of the casual fan. I’m the person who flips through every now and then to watch so whenever I’m helping with the show, I try to say, ‘Okay, we don’t wanna just cater it to the pocket of people who are super fans and devoted to every week. If someone’s flipping through the channels, maybe for the first time, I want to capture their attention and make them first-time fans, make them life-long fans from just this very first time seeing the show’ so that is something that I think I bring from a casual fan or occasional fan perspective.”

On Jerry Lawler’s commentary when she was an active wrestler: “A little side note of this outfit too (gear she was selling), I was wearing it on TV one time and I was showing extra cleavage because of all the action and Jerry Lawler said, ‘Wow! Molly’s really pouring her heart out.’ Or something like that (she laughed). He had so many little one-liners and zingers. So, I have always liked Jerry and I knew that he had a job to do and he did his job well. I didn’t particularly care for the things that he said but I never held that against him personally. His job is to entertain the demographic that is watching the show and at the time, that was all culturally acceptable and funny so yeah, no problems with it even though I would have rather they talked about my athleticism. It just was what it was for the time.”

On her first impression of Gail Kim: “Gail [Kim] had a tryout match at WWE alongside Traci Brooks and Beth Phoenix. I wrestled all three of those women before the show. John Laurinaitis asked me how I felt about each one of the women. I said that Gail was too stiff, she beat me up. I said, ‘You need to hire Beth Phoenix’ and so, he hired Gail. Turns out, she’s super awesome and I love working with her and she was great but my first impression was I was like, ouch, man, she’s tough.”

On her favorite match: “One of the best matches of my entire career was Survivor Series 2003 against Lita. Whenever I meet someone, let’s say they’re sitting next to me on an airplane or they’re not really a fan but they wanna know what I did, I always refer them to that match because I really, really liked it.”