Alexa Bliss reminds fans there are people behind the characters.
Wrestling fans are some of the most visceral fans in sports. Any small mistake in WWE or AEW, and social media lights up with fans delighting in the mistakes one way or the other. Some wrestlers, particularly women, are thrown under the microscope far more often than others. One star who has dealt with this at length is Alexa Bliss.
Speaking with Alistair McGeorge of Metro, Bliss discussed some of this negativity.
“I agree that everyone should have the right to speak their opinion. But when you talk about us as human beings, people, and not our characters, that’s where the line stops and I don’t feel like that’s OK. But we do it because we love what we do, we love entertaining people. It’s really disheartening and heartbreaking when we are putting our all out there,”
“It’s my physical best. I know it may look like my best, but that’s all the energy I had to give that day. I gave my personal all. We’re told how terrible we are and how we should be fired – that’s not nice, and people forget that there is a person behind the character we are portraying on TV,
Alexa Bliss to Metro
Bliss returned to WWE earlier this year after a short lay off to refocus her character.
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