In an exclusive for WrestlingNews.co, Steve Fall interviewed Danny Cage and Notorious Mimi to talk about the “Monster Factory” docuseries about aspiring professional wrestlers. The show debuts today, March 17th, on Apple TV+. Click below to watch the entire interview.
Danny Cage talking about the new docuseries, “Monster Factory.”
“This is the type of show I wanted to have as a kid to watch, because I knew what I was watching on TV, I wanted to see all the stuff. I wanted to know what it went into, like, we see all the time about football movies. It shows the training, and the real stuff, and the real conversation, and the agents, and all this other stuff, and the trials and tribulations, and you never see that in wrestling. It’s always scripted stuff and it’s always made up stuff. They try to do an angle and a work and a shoot and all this stuff. I’m just glad that Apple TV+ was on board with the whole idea of like, no, it’s going to be real, and here it is. We’re going to show the journey and the struggles. We’re going to throw it all out there and be honest with everybody. I’m 49 years old, and it was not so terrifying for me, but I would think if I was 19 or 20, or in my early 20s, I would be terrified at this. So, Mimi and the rest, hats off to you because it’s tough out there, and I think we all grew up going through this together.”
Notorious Mimi talking about her experiencing going through the Monster Factory:
“I was really excited to be able to do something like this because as he was saying, there’s really not that much wrestling content like this that goes behind the scenes. But something I did love watching growing up and when I first started getting into wrestling was Breaking Ground, which was like the WWE show they have that actually focuses on the training process. But I think it’s almost even more raw than that because it’s going into people who haven’t made it there yet, people who are just really starting and learning how to wrestle and understanding what they need to do to make it to the next level. It was definitely scary having to share a part of my life where I really didn’t know what was gonna happen next at any given moment, but I’m really proud of how everything turned out.”
On how this docuseries came to be:
Cage said, “I think this is the greatest part of how this all came to be. They had no clue about the Monster Factory. This was all by chance. The crew, Will Krause and all those guys, they, from public records, TV, and Vox media, contacted us in 2015 just to make a reel to show what they could do production wise. Then it caught ground and caught ground and got some more traction. People got on board and it wasn’t shot to Apple until about 2019 or so and it was right before the pandemic. They didn’t even know what the Monster Factory was until we just became better and better friends. I’m just glad we went through all this because they knew all about me and the students before we even started shooting. It wasn’t everybody just walking on the set going, ‘All right, what are we getting into?’ It? I’m glad it worked out this way.”
On if Cage feels this exposes the business:
“I don’t care about exposing the business because when I was coaching these kids, back in 2011, I was putting out on social media our training and showing it. I had people saying, ‘You shouldn’t do that. You’re exposing the business.’ Then they saw how successful we were, and then all of a sudden, all those wrestling schools started sharing their training, too. So I hope more wrestling shows are like this one. It’s real. It’s not ridiculous. It doesn’t treat fans like they are kids. It’s a real show about real things, and that’s refreshing in pro wrestling.”
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