Marina Shafir comments on WWE Raw Underground.
WWE Raw Underground was a very short-lived idea to spice up the third hour of Monday Night Raw. Presented as a Fight Club-style underground club run by Shane McMahon, Underground briefly allowed Marina Shafir, Jessamyn Duke, Dabba-Kato, and others to have a spotlight that they otherwise would not have gotten on WWE television.
Speaking about the experiment to Chris Jericho on a recent episode of the Talk is Jericho podcast, Shafir would say that while Raw Underground was fun, it doesn't compare to Josh Barnett's Bloodsport style of events.
"Underground was like Shane McMahon’s fight club. They tried to rip off Josh’s Bloodsport and do the no ropes thing. It was interesting. When I did it, the shit was fun. I got to wrestle one chick, and it was kind of a squash match, and it was nothing like my Bloodsport stuff. The production is different. It was just different. I got squash one girl, and then we did a run-in with Nia Jax, and it just fizzled out. Fizzled out, and COVID happened not too far after that."
The Underground idea lives on as a special match type in WWE NXT and will even be included in WWE 2K25.
Fans can read Shafir's comments on working with Jon Moxley in AEW at this link.
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