Over the weekend, three pioneers in women’s wrestling sent out cryptic tweets on a project called KAYfABE. At the time it left women’s wrestling fans in a whirlwind trying to guess what this could mean.
The project has been a work in progress for two years already! It is spearheaded by Christy Hemme, Gail Kim, and Lita.
It has now been announced that KAYfABE is:
“KAYfABE is a one hour professional wrestling show that is 50 percent story and 50 percent in ring action. It is an edgy, racy, cinematic television series about a female led professional wrestling start up. This show is a dramatization and collection of female stories inspired by real life events.”
You can check out the trailer and behind the scenes of the project over at Kickstarter by clicking here.
“But, in this unique narrative, we take you behind the curtain, into the locker room and outside of the arena. So what does that even mean? What are you watching? Why are these stories worth a shit!?
Because we present them with no filter! You get drama, passion, humor, love, anger, frustration and
Other notable names involved in the project are Ring the Belle’s founder DS Shin, Jimmy Jacobs, Chavo Guerrero, and Alisha Edwards amongst many more. Former WWE Diva Maxine is part of the cast. She is featured in the trailer.
The Kickstarter page is being used in order to retrieve the bare minimum to produce the pilot. Feel free to donate what you can by visiting that page.
What are your thoughts on this project? This is huge for women’s wrestling. Leave your comments in the section below!
All transcripts credit to Kickstarter page about the project.
