Faye Jackson is not just a former wrestler, but now possibly a future promoter.
Recently appearing on Wrestling With Stereotypes, Faye Jackson discussed her role in running the Grey Sweatpants Battle Royal earlier this year. The match took place in conjunction with Allie Kat’s Real Hot Girl Sh-t at GCW’s The Collective in Tampa, and it not only raised money for Planned Parenthood, but provided some entertainment value and highlighted a demographic that Jackson says is often not well-represented in wrestling.
Amongst the discussions, Faye noted that wrestling hasn’t traditionally been catered to women, but a lot of women love wrestling regardless. When it was suggested that she become a promoter herself, Faye explained her thoughts on the Battle Royal and how wrestling is traditionally not catered to the female demographic.
“I mean, maybe down the line when I feel like I’m going to retire, sure. But, you know, women love wrestling because if they didn’t, I wouldn’t be in it. A lot of people that started in this business wouldn’t be in it. We watched it. We grew up on it, but it’s not really catered to us. I just wanted to do something — like women have eyes. We like sex appeal. We know when we see somebody that’s beautiful. Yeah, they wrestle. Men wrestle in speedos, tights, whatever, but we want to be entertained, too. I’m just saying, especially if you’re attractive, like Roman Reigns taking off his t-shirt, how big did Twitter blow up when Roman Reigns came out with no t-shirt on?”
After co-host Kel Dansby joked that taking off his shirt nearly derailed Reigns’ heel turn, Jackson said women didn’t care what he was saying, but they were still watching.
“It was just like, oh, it looked like he got on baby oil. The abs is popping. We ain’t seen this Roman in a long time, and I know he’s married. Respect to his wife. Bless his wife. Trust me, bless his wife. But you know, that was eye candy to us.”
Faye Jackson’s Grey Sweatpants Battle Royal featured nineteen competitors including Daniel Garcia, Jazz, and Lee Moriarty, but it was JTG who emerged victoriously in the match. Jackson also went into more detail about the meaning of the match as well as how she wanted to make sure there was also a good cause attached as well.
“So, grey sweatpants to women is like lingerie on you guys. Y’all show off something that you don’t realize y’all show off. So with that being said, why not make a fun show and if men are willing to participate in this — and they know what the grey sweatpants concept is — if they’re willing to participate, why not. Not only raise this money for charity, because at the end of the day I’d never feel comfortable making a profit off of something that’s fun. I wanted to raise awareness for something that is a good cause like Planned Parenthood.
“Planned Parenthood has a bad stigma for abortions when it’s not even about that. It’s for women’s health, it’s to [promote] women’s health, and not only women’s health, anybody could go to Planned Parenthood if they are having problems with anything healthwise with their body. They do it on a sliding scale, they don’t charge your insurance unless you want them to. If you have $10 in your pocket but you have an emergency and you need to see somebody, they’ll see you, they’re a non-profit. So I wanted to make a show that, we had a good time, we had some drinks, got to see something [laughs] but raised awareness as well.”
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