WOW's Razor Discusses Going From Fan To Competitor

Women of Wrestling: Superheroes is on every Friday on AXS TV. One of those competitors, Razor, recently spoke to Uproxx about her transition from a fan to a competitor. Below are some highlights:

Razor Talks About Her Training:

I’ve trained at a few places. I’ve trained in New Japan’s LA Dojo, I’ve trained at Santino Bros, I’ve trained at seminars for Shimmer, and I would say that WOW had the most intense physical aspect of the training. So there’s a lot of things that people might be familiar with if they’ve watched like the WWE tryout videos… There are specific exercises that help wrestlers, and they are intense, they are hard, they’re not easy.

It’s not like “Oh, do a little bit of running and do some jumping jacks and do some squats.” It’s throw your body this way, now throw your body this way, now stand up really quickly after your body’s been on the ground. So just a lot of really, really intense, I guess what would be HIIT cardio in a way, mixed with strength training, and usually, that was for about an hour, and then the rest of the training would be actually having matches or learning moves, things like that.

Razor Talks About Breaking Into WOW:

As a little girl watching wrestling I always felt like I wasn’t big enough to be a wrestler and I wasn’t cute enough to be the kind of wrestler I was seeing on TV a lot more as I got older. It was women who had to look a certain way, basically like models. And as I got older, hit puberty, I was like, “Oh, well, I am neither tall nor hot, so I can’t really do this.” And so I kind of gave up on the dream for a while. And eventually, as an adult, it kind of dawned on me one day, when have I ever let anything stop me from something that I wanted to do? I never have, whether it’s my size or whatever.

So I googled it, I looked into it, and more than anything, what I found myself wishing was, “I wish GLOW was still around,” because that was the kind of wrestler that I want to be. I want to be full of character. I want to be full of life. I want to be someone who’s more than just, “Oh, she can do a moonsault, cool.” And so I eventually found out that WOW existed and it was like my dream come true. And then to try out and get into my dream – it’s basically been a year of dreams for me. It’s pretty awesome.

Razor Talks Transitioning From Fan To Superstar:

I didn’t have as much trouble with it as I know some people did. Some people feel like they lose their love of wrestling when they make that transition because don’t get me wrong, everyone who wrestles was a fan of wrestling at some point. It’s how you become a wrestler, and you don’t make it as a wrestler if that’s not how you feel.

And it can be hard to continue to be a fan once you know too much, right? Once you see behind the curtain, once you’re analyzing everything, right? Do basketball players like watching basketball as much? Probably not because they are kind of forced to watch it a lot, right? So it’s a similar thing where I’m very nitpicky now when I watch, I’m criticizing things when I watch. “Oh, I would have done this, I would have done that.” So that’s been kind of the hardest hurdle, but I found that generally I am able to separate the fan part of myself from the working part of myself and to be able to sit and enjoy a match, and I think I’m better at it than a lot of other people.