Netflix’s new docuseries, WWE: Unreal Has created a debate among critics and fans about whether it is a good idea to “withdraw the curtain” and to reveal the creative process behind the world’s greatest wrestling promotion. But for many the show served to illustrate why WWE super stars are among the best athletes on television. In episode 3 of this five-part series, Bianca Belair can be seen while trying to balance her in-ring performance with an emotional storyline. She tells M&F why this is the most challenging part of her work.
Bianca Belair was a top sport matleet and gymnast before switching to CrossFit and Powerlifting. “I didn’t really grew up looking at struggling,” she explains. But after he was signed at WWE in 2016, Belair developed into one of the most experienced professional wrestlers in the game and became a triple crown champion by winning the Smackdown, RAW and the Tag Team Championship together with Jade Cargill.
In episode 3 of WWE: unreal, Her requirement to be athletic is made even more difficult, because WWE producers wanted to tell an emotional story in which the “Est” of Pro wrestling was forced to see how Cargill was attacked by her former partner, Naomi while she was caught in the pod of the elimination room match.
What WWE: unreal has been successfully exposed, it is exactly how many requirements are set for WWE super stars to create most memorable moments. Yes, professional wrestlers must be athletic, but they must also touch their marks for the perfect camera pot and somehow all of course look at the same time.
“Come to WWE, I really just thought you are an athlete, you go inside and you do movements, but there is so much more going on,” Belair tells M&F. “So if you see me in Elimination Chamber (2025) and I am in that pod, and I scream, and I scream and I cry, it is because that is my two best friends who fight, and I have to portray that on the audience. I have to know how much this affects me as a character.”
She adds: “But as a performer you get lost. I was so lost at that moment of crying and screaming and screaming, and then my pod opened, and I remembered:” Oh, now I have to be the athlete! ” I am still exhausted from crying and screaming, and some people do not realize how to multitask to make it perfect. “
Bianca Belair says that mixing athletics with emotion is the most difficult part of WWE
Although Bianca Belair is rightly recognized as one of the greatest WWE artists of all time, learning to mix the muscle with the emotion is her most difficult learning curve. “The easy part was the athletics,” she shares. “Six weeks after WWE I was able to climb to the upper rope and do a 450-Plash, because for me, in my mind, that is just my gymnastics background. You just do a somersault and you put it on.” I have it! ” But how can you draw them?
For many viewers of WWE: Unreal, lifting the curtain is far from the devalued company of Pro Wrestelen. In any case, it has shown how complex the art of professional struggles really is.
“We try to change the misconceptions of wrestling, because some people just think it’s fake and they immediately write it off,” says Belair. “If people really understood what goes in, what goes into a storyline, what goes behind the scenes, what goes in when things don’t go in the ring. There are so many moving parts. It’s not just about going the skill and how it’s like to create magic outside, and I think people will develop much more respect for what we do.”
It is not only fans and struggling observers who appreciate the complexity to be an athlete and a storyteller at the same time. WWE: The director of Unreal, Chris Weaver, whose credits include the NFL documentary series All of Nothing, developed a deep level of respect for what pro -thrusters have passed themselves. “They don’t take three months off, they will continue the next night,” Weaver tells M&F. “I mean, they don’t even have 24 hours to process what happened and then go on. They have to produce the next episode of this dramatic television show. And so I hope we record how difficult the work is.”
Weaver even says that of all the athletes with whom he collaborated in his career, WWE super stars “are probably the most fit” people where he has ever been around. “Acting is a kind of another variable that they should be good at, or you’re not going to make it,” he concludes. “At least not at the level of WWE.”
To step into the WWE writers’ room and hang outside the ring with your favorite WWE super stars, where the drama is just as intensely outside the stage as it is in the spotlight, you can now view all episodes of WWE: unreal on Netflix
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