A popular WWE personality has decided against getting in the ring.
Jackie Redmond joined WWE in 2021 as the co-host of Raw Talk and the SmackDown LowDown. Since then, she has gone on to become a backstage interviewer and panel host, and can currently be seen on Raw.
In WWE, non-wrestlers have often found themselves taking part in a match at one time or another, but this has not been the case for Redmond so far. Speaking on the Lightweights Podcast, the broadcaster said that’s unlikely to change anytime soon.
Jackie Redmond Explains Decision Not To Wrestle In WWE
Redmond explained that she did try out the ring at Santino Marella’s gym, but the physical effects it had on her took her by surprise.
“I ran the ropes one time at Santino Marella’s gym. He has a gym outside of Toronto, or he used to…I think he still has it. And I had no idea how hard just running the ropes is, in an actual ring…I left with bruises. I was like ‘What is this?’
The experience left in her little doubt she was happy to interview the men and women getting inside the ropes rather than doing it herself, although she hasn’t ruled the idea out entirely.
“You think it just gives, it looks so simple. But anyone, especially anyone with a small frame that has actually run the ropes will tell you it’s, like, painful. Like, Snoop Dogg, I understand why it looked the way it looked when he did it. It’s hard. That s**t is hard. So I don’t think I would ever wrestle. Unless it was a situation that was just too iconic to pass up.”
Recently, Jackie Redmond praised an AEW personality for kickstarting her own career.
H/T to Wrestling Inc. for the above transcription.
