When GLOW returns to Netflix for Season 2, it will bring with it many surprises as the ragtag group of female wrestlers works to make their TV dreams a reality. Along the way, they`ll run into some interesting faces--including one that should be very familiar to longtime WWE fans.Chavo Guerrero Jr., a former WWE Tag Team, WWE Cruiserweight, and ECW Champion, will appear in the second season, though it`s far from his first exposure to the series. After serving as a fight coordinator and wrestling trainer to the cast in Season 1--a role he reprises this year--Guerrero is also getting the chance to mix it up in the ring with some of GLOW`s cast on-camera in Season 2.`Chavo is on the show this year, and he wrestles with some of the women,` star Alison Brie says in a group interview. `So that was very exciting to witness.` She continues, `He stayed in character the whole time, super weird. We were like, `Chavo, are we going to stretch before the match?` And he was like, `F**k you, I`ll see you in the ring.``If he`s getting in the ring to wrestle women, it sounds like Guerrero will be modeled after Andy Kaufman`s intergender wrestling gimmick from the 1970s. It`s an act similar to what independent wrestler Joey Ryan does today.For the cast, it was a special moment. After being shown the literal ropes by Guerrero, he was stepping into their domain--acting. `It`s so exciting to watch someone we love shine,` Jackie Tohn, who plays Melrose, explains. `In the same way, I love watching these girls. It`s like, wait a sec, we can now get to watch Chavo, who by the way has basically raised us. Now he gets his moment to not be behind the scenes, it`s really nice.`With Guerrero stepping into the show as a male wrestler that fights women, Brittany Young (Carmen `Machu Picchu` Wade) relished the opportunity to tangle with her trainer. `Well I know in my scene with him, without giving too much away, I literally was talking trash to him as Carmen, but deep down inside I was like, `T ...
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