NEED TO KNOW
- Ilona Maher, wrestler?
- The rugby star revealed that the WWE has approached her prior to now
- Maher has beforehand appeared on Dancing with the Stars and has modeled within the Sports activities Illustrated Swimsuit version
Rugby star Ilona Maher has objectives — contained in the wrestling ring and past!
The Olympic bronze medalist is mulling future alternatives exterior her sport, she instructed BBC Sport in an interview on Thursday, Aug. 21.
“I have been approached earlier than by the WWE,” Maher, 29, shared, and added that her ring identify could be “Maher-vellous.”
The Dancing with the Stars alum ventured additional: “I do not know if I might [go into wrestling]. I ought to give it some thought, there’s nice cash in it.”
Maher is open to creating a leap into the “appearing house” too, she instructed the outlet.
“I believe a Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, John Cena development, I might love to do this,” she mentioned. “It might be thrilling to see my physique sort on the display screen. I will begin off small, in all probability like a scorching murderer or one thing, let’s not get too loopy. I’m not going to be in a rom-com simply but.”
Maher’s body-positive mentality and irreverent humorousness has lengthy been on show on social media.
In latest days on Instagram, the athlete has been targeted on her upcoming debut within the Girls’s Rugby World Cup.
Earlier this week, she was named to the beginning lineup for america’ opening recreation in opposition to England on Friday, Aug. 22.
Sharing images of herself within the group’s uniform, Maher declared herself match for motion.
“Crimson, white, and a babe 🇺🇸” she wrote on Tuesday, Aug. 19 alongside a carousel of photos.
In January, Maher instructed ipromiseyoumedia in an unique interview that she was prepared to change to a unique rugby format.
“I believe it is simply good to get again into 15s as a result of I have been enjoying Sevens for six years, so I needed to go someplace the place I can actually immerse myself and actually see the sport in that means and really feel it out,” she instructed ipromiseyoumedia on the time, on the eve of her debut in a three-month contract with the Bristol Bears, a Premiership Girls’s Rugby league group.
She added, “As a result of if I wish to pursue this World Cup factor, I wish to be one of the best participant that Staff USA wants or that they deserve.”
