PVZ declined movie and WWE offer to fight
Vanzant gained main stream notoriety as she made it to the finale of the show, and that opened up opportunities for her to take a movie role or appear in the WWE, both of which she declined in favor of taking a fight.
Yesterday the UFC announced the return of Paige Van Zant to the Octagon after a short hiatus to tape the ABC show ‘Dancing with the Stars’. VanZant will fight Bec Rawlings on August 27th.
Vanzant gained main stream notoriety as she made it to the finale of the show, and that opened up opportunities for her to take a movie role or appear in the WWE, both of which she declined in favor of taking a fight:
Because of her schedule, VanZant opted to turn down an offer she had pending to appear at WWE SummerSlam on Aug. 21, as well as a small role in “Kickboxer: Retaliation” that was expected to film in Thailand this summer.
“Fighting definitely comes first. I’ve recently declined to be in the ‘Kickboxer’ movie because I want to be 100 percent for this fight and train 100 percent, and filming that movie was kind of going to get in the way,” VanZant told ESPN on Thursday. “We couldn’t get a date set that worked with my fight schedule.”
Right now I’m 100-percent fight-focused and I would love to participate in anything the WWE has to offer when the timing’s right as long as it works with my fight schedule. I love WWE and if they ever reached out to me again I think I would definitely love to work with them but right now I’m focused on Bec Rawlings.