David McLane Doesn’t Expect Much Crossover Between WOW and Past GLOW Stars

– Women’s Wrestling Weekly recently interviewed WOW – Women of Wrestling founder David McLane, who discussed the promotion’s recent return on AXS TV. Below are some highlights (transcript via WrestlingInc.com).

David McLane on not repeating the earlier mistakes that led to WOW going off the air: “For one thing, it will still be around. Those other renditions – I had business partners that never had the same vision that I did and subsequently they didn’t last very long. Especially the second one, it was a rendition right out of GLOW, so it was like taking GLOW. When I left GLOW, as Little Egypt will tell you, 28 out of 32 women left with me.”

David McLane on what WOW is this time around: “So that said, that was just an under-financed and unorganized scramble to just go out on the road and see what we can do. This is the ultimate dream, this is the ultimate vision that I’ve had for 30 some years. This is the presentation of women’s wrestling that I will be most proud of because this combines everything that was great about GLOW with the athleticism and the presentation of the athletes that I’ve always dreamed women’s wrestling would become.”

David McLane on not anticipating much crossover with WOW and the former stars of GLOW: “We had many of the WOW wrestlers at one of the live events in Los Angeles and paid homage to them [GLOW wrestlers]. And we even had Jacqueline Stallion at the live events and she will be on the TV taping, thanking her for supporting women’s wrestling for so long. But in terms of in the ring, no. The athletic ability of the wrestlers today is so superior to anything that was even five years ago, more or less 20 or 30 years ago. WOW is the ultimate competition in women’s wrestling and when you see each of the competitors you’ll know why. This isn’t a comedy event, this is real women’s wrestling.”