Eve Berrington and her "documentary"

[1032004]

On 6/5/2025 at 12:16 AM, Tripnsweep said:

https://filmshortage.com/dailyshortpicks/takedown/

If you have about 20 minutes to kill here it is. She loves the attention of how poor an athlete she is. Notable highlights are her "coach" congratulating her on not getting pinned or losing by tech fall in 20 seconds and her relentless self aggrandizing self promotion which takes up about 3/4 of it. 

This is definitely weird, but she does at least seem to realize that she stinks.   I wouldn’t really compare this to August Wesley.  And if her mom really did get murdered in front of her as a baby, I’m OK with her getting a mini-documentary made about her.  I assume she has money from somewhere to pay for the personal coach(es?) and film?

[Tripnsweep]

1 hour ago, 1032004 said:

This is definitely weird, but she does at least seem to realize that she stinks.   I wouldn’t really compare this to August Wesley.  And if her mom really did get murdered in front of her as a baby, I’m OK with her getting a mini-documentary made about her.  I assume she has money from somewhere to pay for the personal coach(es?) and film?

It mostly comes from her cyber panhandling and probably doing "favors" for people. Like her "Craigslist wrestling" videos. 

I don't believe anything that she says. 

[Tripnsweep]

And I don't think she realizes that she is terrible at wrestling. She really pushes that she trains hard, with an underwear wrestling model who looks like her plastic surgeon had a bad combination of Cerebral Palsy and Tourettes, and is somehow a secret ninja badass for some reason. Yet she just has never gotten over that hurdle that would let her win, or score a point in a match, or be anything other than a tiny speed bump for whoever she faces at the open. 

The thing is, she has to sell the delusion in order to keep conning people out of money to finance her vacations to Vegas. Most people don't know about wrestling, so when she doesn't come back with anything, she just says that she got beaten by a World Champion, and the gullible idiots who pay her bills, think "Well a world champion would beat almost everyone. Here's more free money!" Because they don't know the difference between getting blasted by Velte or some random high school or college wrestler. 

[wrestlingfan22]

18 hours ago, HokieDave87 said:

Does she get the equivalent of a VIP credential for being a participant? I'd get tech'd twice in under a minute for a lanyard that lets me roam around matside for the rest of the tournament....probably wouldn't cut weight though, need to be at full strength

I saw people saying that it is cheaper to reigster for the US Open and get an athlete pass entry than it is to buy a ticket. Not sure if that is true though. 

[HokieDave87]

13 hours ago, pokemonster said:

I feel like your point is a valid one. What credentials does one need to compete and therefore hang out matside for the tournament? Anyone know?

It's been more than a few years but I want to say a USAW card was like 50 bucks when I wrestled. I think that's all you need to register for the Open (but I would've gotten tech'd twice so never really looked into it)

[1032004]

4 minutes ago, Tripnsweep said:

And I don't think she realizes that she is terrible at wrestling. She really pushes that she trains hard, with an underwear wrestling model who looks like her plastic surgeon had a bad combination of Cerebral Palsy and Tourettes, and is somehow a secret ninja badass for some reason. Yet she just has never gotten over that hurdle that would let her win, or score a point in a match, or be anything other than a tiny speed bump for whoever she faces at the open. 

The thing is, she has to sell the delusion in order to keep conning people out of money to finance her vacations to Vegas. Most people don't know about wrestling, so when she doesn't come back with anything, she just says that she got beaten by a World Champion, and the gullible idiots who pay her bills, think "Well a world champion would beat almost everyone. Here's more free money!" Because they don't know the difference between getting blasted by Velte or some random high school or college wrestler. 

Do you know who financed her trip to Vegas?

[Wrasslin]

so, remember the 2019 Sr Nationals Olympic qualifiers in Texas? Erik Hinkley (male version of Eve Berrington) wrestled Collin Moore and gets destroyed because he had no business being there (video below). My bro and I were in the stands making fun of him (as we should). Turns out, his daughter was sitting in the next row down and turns to us (after he got teched in less than a minute), tells us that she is his daughter, starts chastising us, and say's that it doesn't matter because he's having fun! I told her, "I've done a lot of losing in wrestling and it's not fun; neither is looking old and fat in a singlet!" True story.

 

[BruceyB]

This is quite the comedic masterpiece. Granted, I skipped through it in about 5 minutes. The camera work and video editing is actually really well done which makes it even funnier. She's stressing about being 2 pounds over the day before weigh-ins.. her running in a leather jacket and leggings to "lose the weight." Her doing her best Louden Swain impression by doing burpees in the casino and squats in the elevator (make every second count!) and then she gets teched 10 immediately, and then the description of her second match was "she lasted twice as long." The fact that Ms. Berrington spent the time and resources to make this 20 minute documentary that results in her getting teched twice in an uncompetitive fashion is absolutely hilarious. What's the thought process here? 

I know nothing about her or her story, but consider me a fan.

[BruceyB]

8 minutes ago, Wrasslin said:

so, remember the 2019 Sr Nationals Olympic qualifiers in Texas? Erik Hinkley (male version of Eve Berrington) wrestled Collin Moore and gets destroyed because he had no business being there (video below). My bro and I were in the stands making fun of him (as we should). Turns out, his daughter was sitting in the next row down and turns to us (after he got teched in less than a minute), tells us that she is his daughter, starts chastising us, and say's that it doesn't matter because he's having fun! I told her, "I've done a lot of losing in wrestling and it's not fun; neither is looking old and fat in a singlet!" True story.

 

The flo crew just calls them "roofers." 

[alex1fly]

17 minutes ago, BruceyB said:

This is quite the comedic masterpiece. Granted, I skipped through it in about 5 minutes. The camera work and video editing is actually really well done which makes it even funnier. She's stressing about being 2 pounds over the day before weigh-ins.. her running in a leather jacket and leggings to "lose the weight." Her doing her best Louden Swain impression by doing burpees in the casino and squats in the elevator (make every second count!) and then she gets teched 10 immediately, and then the description of her second match was "she lasted twice as long." The fact that Ms. Berrington spent the time and resources to make this 20 minute documentary that results in her getting teched twice in an uncompetitive fashion is absolutely hilarious. What's the thought process here? 

I know nothing about her or her story, but consider me a fan.

I watched a bit as I generally enjoy BTS stuff. OP is clearly enjoying tearing the lady down. It's a win win!

[Tripnsweep]

10 minutes ago, alex1fly said:

I watched a bit as I generally enjoy BTS stuff. OP is clearly enjoying tearing the lady down. It's a win win!

So here is why I don't like her.

When she was at the open one year, I forgot who told me, but she was extremely rude and condescending towards a few high level wrestlers who had made a world team or would. Like they were trying to give her advice and her lack of knowledge of who she was talking to, she came across as rude and arrogant that she knows better. 

The other thing is, despite her failure of even being considered decent at wrestling, she has used her "fame" to wrangle a coaching job. You wouldn't hire a mechanic who thinks they know what they're doing, so why would you hire a coach who doesn't know anything either? 

She behaves and acts exactly like a well known MMA/BJJ fraud Jenae Noonan, who has told even more boldfaced lies. 

 

[Animal197]

49 minutes ago, Wrasslin said:

so, remember the 2019 Sr Nationals Olympic qualifiers in Texas? Erik Hinkley (male version of Eve Berrington) wrestled Collin Moore and gets destroyed because he had no business being there (video below). My bro and I were in the stands making fun of him (as we should). Turns out, his daughter was sitting in the next row down and turns to us (after he got teched in less than a minute), tells us that she is his daughter, starts chastising us, and say's that it doesn't matter because he's having fun! I told her, "I've done a lot of losing in wrestling and it's not fun; neither is looking old and fat in a singlet!" True story.

 

In 2022 I competed at a masters tournament and Erik was in my bracket. It was one of those ones where the organizer moves everyone into the same bracket instead of sticking to the ages and weight classes. I was able to chat with Erik there. He had a pretty neat wrestling journey. He is a multiple time veterans world team member as well as a veterans world medalist.

 

with that in mind I don’t think I’d consider him a male version of the person mentioned in this thread. I think he takes the veterans competitions seriously and tries to go to as many tournaments as possible to prepare.

Edited June 6 by Animal197

[Tripnsweep]

1 hour ago, 1032004 said:

Do you know who financed her trip to Vegas?

She cyber panhandles frequently and lies that she was "invited" to compete, so it sounds really compelling to anyone who doesn't know better. 

[HokieDave87]

47 minutes ago, BruceyB said:

This is quite the comedic masterpiece. Granted, I skipped through it in about 5 minutes. The camera work and video editing is actually really well done which makes it even funnier. She's stressing about being 2 pounds over the day before weigh-ins.. her running in a leather jacket and leggings to "lose the weight." Her doing her best Louden Swain impression by doing burpees in the casino and squats in the elevator (make every second count!) and then she gets teched 10 immediately, and then the description of her second match was "she lasted twice as long." The fact that Ms. Berrington spent the time and resources to make this 20 minute documentary that results in her getting teched twice in an uncompetitive fashion is absolutely hilarious. What's the thought process here? 

I know nothing about her or her story, but consider me a fan.

I immediately thought of Louden Swain doing pushups in the hotel when I saw that haha ...and then got lunatic fringe stuck in my head, put in my headphones and listened to it real quick and now I'm probably going just going to do nothing and watch vision quest when I get home from work so she's impacted my Friday night in a positive way. Inspiring!

[Tripnsweep]

3 minutes ago, HokieDave87 said:

I immediately thought of Louden Swain doing pushups in the hotel when I saw that haha ...and then got lunatic fringe stuck in my head, put in my headphones and listened to it real quick and now I'm probably going just going to do nothing and watch vision quest when I get home from work so she's impacted my Friday night in a positive way. Inspiring!

It's kinda like if Louden was a special needs kid, and instead of beating Schute, gets pinned in 5 seconds. 

[billyhoyle]

15 minutes ago, Tripnsweep said:

So here is why I don't like her.

When she was at the open one year, I forgot who told me, but she was extremely rude and condescending towards a few high level wrestlers who had made a world team or would. Like they were trying to give her advice and her lack of knowledge of who she was talking to, she came across as rude and arrogant that she knows better. 

The other thing is, despite her failure of even being considered decent at wrestling, she has used her "fame" to wrangle a coaching job. You wouldn't hire a mechanic who thinks they know what they're doing, so why would you hire a coach who doesn't know anything either? 

She behaves and acts exactly like a well known MMA/BJJ fraud Jenae Noonan, who has told even more boldfaced lies. 

 

Coaching job at what level? A lot of coaches aren't/weren't good wrestlers. Is there actually something nefarious here is she just somebody who wants attention (like almost everyone in 2025). 

[Tripnsweep]

1 minute ago, billyhoyle said:

Coaching job at what level? A lot of coaches aren't/weren't good wrestlers. Is there actually something nefarious here is she just somebody who wants attention (like almost everyone in 2025). 

She is the head coach at San Lorenzo Valley High. Also lots of coaches weren't great, but somebody who sees wrestling as a way to promote herself as some kind of pseudo celebrity or influencer isn't the kind of coach who is positive. Plus there are some things in her background that would probably be things that set a bad example (her start in wrestling). 

[HokieDave87]

1 hour ago, Tripnsweep said:

She is the head coach at San Lorenzo Valley High. Also lots of coaches weren't great, but somebody who sees wrestling as a way to promote herself as some kind of pseudo celebrity or influencer isn't the kind of coach who is positive. Plus there are some things in her background that would probably be things that set a bad example (her start in wrestling). 

San Lorenzo Valley showing up with a full roster at Ironman next year?

[Tripnsweep]

5 hours ago, HokieDave87 said:

San Lorenzo Valley showing up with a full roster at Ironman next year?

I have no idea. I don't really follow California high school wrestling. I wouldn't think they're allowed at Ironman unless the CIF changed the rules about competing with Prep schools. 

[whaletail]

I'm only 15 minutes in, but I'd love to hear the thoughts of a non-wrestler (or someone completely unfamiliar with the sport).

Would they recognize the absurdity of her goal/journey etc., or view her as a legitimate participant (an underdog, but someone who's at least prepared enough to win a few matches)? Would they realize her story wasn't really worth telling (at least not her wrestling story)? That she hadn't earned the opportunity to scrap with a wrestler like Mallory Velte, and even further, that her "holding her own" would actually have devalued the sport itself.

I'm also curious how this came about. Did she finance it, and hire a film crew etc., or did someone actually meet her and decide her story was worth telling? Because as uninteresting as her wrestling "journey" really is, the film crew is clearly very competent.

At a glance, this was as well made a documentary as any I've seen. In fact, the early U.S. Open wrestling sequences were incredible. From the camera angles to the sound mix, I'm not sure I've ever seen wrestling appear so viscerally violent.

Finally, Eve herself is much less delusional than I expected. She doesn't pretend to be better than she is (at least not in the 15 minutes I've seen), nor does she seem to think she's better than she is. She seems to know she's going to get steamrolled at the Open, and even mentions she's only going because she couldn't find an online fight or submission grappling opponent that weekend.

[MPhillips]

"There's a sucker born every minute."

[Tripnsweep]

1 hour ago, MPhillips said:

"There's a sucker born every minute."

This reminds me of something really funny.

Many years ago, in the early days of the MMA/BJJ scene, they held submission grappling tournaments at the North Phoenix Baptist Church. A guy named Richard Hamilton who ran a club there held them. And a who's who of early MMA talent was there at various times, or participated in those early tournaments. Kerr, Coleman, Frye, Severn, etc. The tournaments were pretty competitive, and there was always at least one fist fight that broke out. 

The church is huge, they have 2 gyms, a roller skating rink, etc. So one of the tournaments was going on alongside some kind of Karate point sparring tournament in the other gym, the kind where you really don't hit the other guy. One local BJJ instructor has never seen this before, he was an old school guy, and he was fascinated by watching it because he didn't understand why they didn't really hit each other. So another guy who was involved in the early MMA stuff out here comes up to him and says "And all these guys think they can kick our ass." while pointing out a prominent karate instructor explaining that the guy was a multi millionaire from this. 

I think we know who the suckers are in this case. 

[D3 for LU]

4 hours ago, MPhillips said:

"There's a sucker born every minute."

Mmnn... Yes indeed.

D3

[Tripnsweep]

[whaletail]

On 6/6/2025 at 1:39 PM, Tripnsweep said:

It mostly comes from her cyber panhandling and probably doing "favors" for people. Like her "Craigslist wrestling" videos. 

I don't believe anything that she says. 

Since it sounds like you were at least familiar with her prior to the documentary release, do you know anything about it's backstory?

Notably, how it was financed, and how did such a complete nobody - whose story isn't even interesting*, come to the attention of such a seemingly 'high end' film crew?

* beyond true crime fans' potential interest in her mother's murder, and how long Eve was subsequently alone with her body.