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Getting Up Off The Mat
Case closed.
Sable returned to WWE late last year. She said she missed the immediate gratifications of performing live.
“I just enjoyed performing in front of the fans,” she said. “I didn’t get the same feeling of excitement elsewhere.”
Even though she is back in the fold, Sable is still outspoken about sexism in the wrestling industry.
She says the most gifted female wrestlers get passed over because they lack a certain California finish.
They’re not weight-training Barbie, in other words.
“Men aren’t hired on looks,” she says. “Some of the most talented women are not blonde-haired, blue-eyed women.”
Of course, Sable’s good looks haven’t exactly been a non-issue in the course of her career.
She is extremely proud of her status at Playboy and says the photo shoots were liberating for her.
“I love being sexy,” she says. “But I also want to be thought of as an intelligent woman.”
Sable says female wrestlers are held to a higher performing standard than men. And they’re held to a different moral standard as well.
“The men in this business are able to have families because they have wives who stay home. The women have to choose. There are more difficulties as a woman. There are more sacrifices we make.”
Sable says women who leave their families to go on tour are judged much more harshly than men.
And women are generally not part of the management structure at WWE.
“I know women who know as much about this business as any man,” she said.
Wrestling has fallen on hard economic times of late and Sable says it still suffers from a sideshow stigma.
Sable said she believes people need to be more aware of the combination of athleticism, thespianism and charisma that goes into having a successful career in wrestling.
“In this business, it is many years before you find a mix of style and character that connects with the fans. The fans have to buy into it.
“The most talented wrestlers are not as popular as The Rock and ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin because the fans have to buy into it.”
And the most popular female wrestlers are not nearly as popular as the male icons.
But Sable says she has faith that this will change.
“We are starting to think that people may want to find out more about us,” she said.
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