In what has been a vastly underutilized resource for the wrestling world, Vince McMahon has stepped up and signed Angela Fong, a cheerleader for the B.C. Lions of the Canadian Football League, to be the WWE's next Diva.
"I am so scared," she says quietly. "I don't know what to expect."
That's exactly the type of reaction WWE founder Vince McMahon seeks on a weekly basis. And after going through what amounts to wrestling boot camp at the organization's Florida training facility, Fong could show up on any of WWE's three-ring platforms in the next few months.
The former Miss Molson Indy Vancouver was scouted at a pageant in Las Vegas in May, which led to a WWE orientation session in Louisville in September.
Of course it didn't take Angela long to break into the old saw about cheerleadering not being considered a sport.
... she can work up some energy... when asked if cheerleading, an estimated $500 million business in the U.S., is actually a sport.
"Oh yes," says Fong, who got hooked while attending high school at Terry Fox and continued at SFU, where she is four classes from a communications and publishing degree.
"Cheerleaders have had a stereotype for so long -- the whole ditzy, can't do anything else and look pretty thing. There's gymnastics. There's weight training. And it's very competitive."
Whatever.
You may have heard of another fan of the B.C. Lions going on to fame in Hollywood; her name is Pamela Anderson. Let's hope that Angela can also achieve that type of stardom.
