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Getting Up Off The Mat
After grappling with WWE, Sable knows all the ropes
by Steve Penhollow - The Journal Gazette
The following article was posted on FortWayne.com on August 6, 2004.
There are things wrestler Sable can do to a 300-pound man that a mason can’t do to marble.
But what she really wants to be is an interior designer.
She has already helped decorate four of her friends’ homes.
“It’s very enjoyable to me,” she said. “I enjoy shopping and choosing things. I love looking at homes. I’m an architecture buff.”
The sight of Sable hanging curtains in your living room must be a little like the sight of Wonder Woman in your kitchen making radish florettes. But Sable, real name Reno Mero, is clearly more than the sum of her sculptured parts.
Sable will appear as part of a World Wrestling Entertainment show that comes to Memorial Coliseum on Monday.
Sable’s travails in the savvy circus known as World Wrestling Entertainment these past few years bring up an old question in a new context: Is it real?
Pretty much everybody can now admit that the bouts themselves are staged, but what about the drama?
WWE is loved as much for its plots these days as it is for its piledrivers.
“General Hospital” has nothing on its shifting alliances, its backstabbings and its skullduggery.
So when Sable quit WWE several years ago and filed a lawsuit against it, a spectator couldn’t help but wonder whether it was all part of the show.
According to a 1999 Associated Press story, Sable sued WWE (then known as the World Wrestling Federation) for “$110 million, complaining it wanted her to participate in a lesbian storyline, expose her breasts on TV and appear in sexually degrading photos.”
The story went on to say, “The lawsuit ... charges that professional wrestling has become increasingly ‘obscene, titillating, vulgar and unsafe.’”
Keep in mind that this is a sport where referees have been known to break in on matches involving female wrestlers and demand that they strip down to bra and panties.
In the interim between her two WWE stints, Sable became one of Playboy Magazine’s most popular and oft-featured celebrity models.
Accounts of Sable’s career on wrestling fan Web sites are such an undifferentiated mix of fictions written for the bouts and the facts of Sable’s life that it’s impossible to tell what’s true.
But the reporter got a clue as to the veracity of the lawsuit when he asked Sable about it.
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