1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:06,359 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Battleground Podcast. 2 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 2: You'll night for all things. 3 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 3: And exclusive interviews with some of your favorite wrestlers. 4 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 1: Found podcast dot. 5 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:25,279 Speaker 2: What's up you guys? 6 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 1: Welcome back into iHeartRadio's official wrestling podcast, the Battleground Podcast. 7 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 1: And it has been an exciting week here on the show. 8 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 1: We literally watched somebody commit arson on TV on Wednesday 9 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:38,239 Speaker 1: nights and now we're here to talk about a big 10 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: event that's happening this weekend. We've got ae w all 11 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:44,519 Speaker 1: Out live from Chicago, and today on the show we 12 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 1: have our. 13 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:48,479 Speaker 4: Guests Willow Lighting Gals with us. Willow, how are you, Holly? 14 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 3: I'm doing well. 15 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 4: I'm doing well, you know, get ready to beat up 16 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 4: an ex friend and there. 17 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 3: Are a lot of emotions that I am feeling, but overall 18 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 3: we'll go with good feeling good. 19 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:05,039 Speaker 1: Yeah, and that kind of wants I kind of want 20 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 1: to ask, just how are we feeling? 21 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 2: You know this week and all out? 22 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 1: You've got a former friend in a Chicago street fight, 23 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 1: which you're no stranger to street fights whatsoever, But what 24 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 1: are your thoughts heading into this match and how important 25 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 1: is this opportunity for you to make a statement and 26 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 1: finally put this feud with Statlander behind you well, you know, 27 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 1: I feel. 28 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 3: Like there's the cliche of like thin line between love 29 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 3: and hate, and the rood of that is just how 30 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 3: passionate you are about something. And Statlander is somebody I'd 31 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 3: been really close friends with from pretty early. 32 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:41,320 Speaker 4: On in my career. 33 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:44,320 Speaker 3: I put a lot of trust into, confided in, a lot, 34 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 3: really been vulnerable with. And for me, street fights were 35 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 3: something that we even came together as a team on 36 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:57,559 Speaker 3: previously and really kind of dug into this new level 37 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 3: of who we were as performers and wrestlers and fighters, and. 38 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 4: That was really cool. Yeah, I thought that was very cool. 39 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 3: So it feels fitting that we would end something on 40 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 3: such a passionate, physical, violent note. And so I am 41 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 3: excited to show her, hey, don't cross me, but also 42 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 3: a little nervous, a little apprehensive. I can't lie that 43 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 3: is that is the flurry of emotion that I am 44 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:30,239 Speaker 3: kind of experiencing right now. 45 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 4: Yeah. 46 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 2: Is it satisfying getting your hands on Stokeleig? 47 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean it is. 48 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,399 Speaker 3: He has been a thorn in my side. Even when 49 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 3: things were cool with State and I, it was kind 50 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:49,800 Speaker 3: of like, hey, I think this guy sucks. I think 51 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 3: he's he's annoying, you know. Sometimes he's a little bit funny, 52 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 3: but more than anything, he's just kind of a bother. 53 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:57,959 Speaker 4: But you seem to like him. 54 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 3: So if for whatever reason you feel like we can 55 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 3: benefit from working with him, I'll let you be. 56 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 4: I'll let it rock. Obviously that did not. 57 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 3: Turn out for the better for me, right, So there's 58 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 3: there's a little bit of vindication that I received about 59 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 3: two weeks ago at all In. I got to Timo 60 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 3: b Tom. But but the real, I think moment of 61 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:25,640 Speaker 3: indication that I will feel is when I do finally 62 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 3: get my hands on Stack, because that's the core this 63 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 3: really is. 64 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 4: He's the one who, Yeah, it broke my heart. 65 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 2: This is something I think kind of adjacent to that. 66 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 2: I've always been curious about this. So you're no strangers 67 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 2: of the street fights, the death matches, the hardcore, all 68 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. Uh. There was a very well 69 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 2: known tournament back in the nineties, the King of the 70 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 2: Death Matches, famously one by Texas Jack. Would you want 71 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 2: to bring in a Queen of the Death Matches and 72 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 2: do it properly in twenty four is that? Would you 73 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 2: wave that flag? 74 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 3: I don't know that that is necessarily something that I 75 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 3: would excel at. Maybe, Like when I was early in 76 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 3: my career on the NEEDS, I like very badly kind 77 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 3: of wanted to get into a little bit of the 78 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 3: death match scene. Obviously that didn't happen, and then it 79 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 3: really wasn't until I came to AW that they started 80 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 3: putting me in street fights, which I did not mind 81 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 3: because I was I was a fan of that kind 82 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 3: of stuff. 83 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 4: But I don't know that. 84 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:40,680 Speaker 2: That's the details tournament of it would be for me. 85 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, not at this point where I'm got I think 86 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:44,480 Speaker 3: it would be cool to see. 87 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:49,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so too. I think the ladies have 88 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,600 Speaker 2: digested this stuff just as we the guys have, and 89 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,160 Speaker 2: you know, some of the street fights we've seen from 90 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 2: you guys have I'm very creative, very violent, so I 91 00:04:58,240 --> 00:04:59,799 Speaker 2: would be very accused. 92 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 3: Career, you know, I think at this point, at this point, 93 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 3: longevity is the name of the game, and we can 94 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:08,160 Speaker 3: throw it a little bit of fun here and there, but. 95 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 2: Long game, yeah, long game, yeah, perfect, Yeah, absolutely. 96 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:16,360 Speaker 3: So. 97 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: You know, AAW has shown incredible diversity and inclusion, especially 98 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 1: in the women's division, but you know, you look at 99 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:28,480 Speaker 1: the IWC, the people on the internet the Keyboard Warriors, right, 100 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 1: Some feel that the women's division doesn't always get the 101 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:36,159 Speaker 1: same spotlights as the men's. How do you feel about 102 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: the current state of the women's division and AW and 103 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: what would you like to see change, if anything. 104 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 3: I mean, I think we've come a really long way 105 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 3: just in the two years that I've been here. I 106 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:50,480 Speaker 3: think a lot of the issues initially with the women's 107 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:55,719 Speaker 3: division were kind of stemmed in years and years and 108 00:05:55,880 --> 00:06:01,360 Speaker 3: years of stigma against women in for National Wrestling. Like, 109 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:04,280 Speaker 3: I think it's a lot deeper than just Tony saying. 110 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 4: I want to give the. 111 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:06,840 Speaker 3: Girls time more. 112 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 4: I don't you know. 113 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 3: I think it's much bigger than him just saying that, 114 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:18,039 Speaker 3: because fans do ultimately have a little bit of say 115 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 3: in what we do. You know, they like, this is 116 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 3: our our company. We're gonna pull the shots, we're gonna 117 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 3: do what we're gonna do, and we're gonna make them 118 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:29,719 Speaker 3: pay attention and whatever. But it's hard when there's years 119 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:32,719 Speaker 3: and years just of being like this is the bathroom 120 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 3: break match, and people immediately tune out before they even 121 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 3: give us a chance. And for the course of the 122 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:43,920 Speaker 3: five years that AW has been running, you can see 123 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:46,239 Speaker 3: that we've been getting so much more so much more time, 124 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:51,039 Speaker 3: more opportunities. What you've seen over time that we've had 125 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:56,600 Speaker 3: more spokes on the show, more opportunities, more time, and 126 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:59,239 Speaker 3: that's because over the five years we've like forced people 127 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 3: to pay attention do us, and so with that get 128 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 3: we get higher ratings, we get more people trusting us, 129 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 3: we get more people paying attention, more equity, and so 130 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 3: that is a large part in thanks to what we've done, 131 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 3: you know, and the women who were at aw before 132 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 3: me have done. 133 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 4: As well. But thank you fans for. 134 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 3: Tuning in, keep doing that, keep supporting us, keep being 135 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 3: very vocal online about how you want to see us 136 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 3: in bigger positions. 137 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 4: And you know, I can't deny the fact that Merchides 138 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 4: coming to our company. 139 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 3: Has helped us because she has she's been an advocate 140 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 3: for all of us, all of the division. And again, 141 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 3: the progress is something that is very slow. 142 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 4: That is something that is bigger than wrestling. 143 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 3: When you look at all the social change that our 144 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 3: country or different countries have gone through and will continue 145 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 3: to go through. Progress is slow, and so to see 146 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 3: that reflected in wrestling, something that already is kind of 147 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 3: a little further back socially and progressively as the rest 148 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 3: of the world. It's it's nice to see us kind 149 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 3: of catching up and getting there, and it's it's been 150 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 3: five years, which is not a. 151 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 4: Long time, and we've already progressed so much. So I am. 152 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:20,520 Speaker 3: Excited and proud and happy to have been a part 153 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 3: of that. 154 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 4: But of course I. 155 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 3: Would always love to see I'd love to see it 156 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 3: more for a women's match to main event more regularly, 157 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 3: or more matches on pay per views and. 158 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 4: Like these big shows. But it's happening. 159 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 3: It's happening, so just keep keep keep going with with 160 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 3: what's working. 161 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go, absolutely, and I guess some revolutions 162 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 2: are slower than others, so it takes a little bit 163 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 2: of time. Like I said, Yeah, so this is kind 164 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 2: of crazy. You know, you just just got back from Wembley. 165 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 2: You're gonna have all out coming out this weekend coming up, 166 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 2: and then on September thirteenth, you're going to Arena Mexico 167 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:06,280 Speaker 2: for the CML ninety first Anniversary show to defend the 168 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 2: CML World Women's Women's World Championship. A crazy You're on 169 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:15,560 Speaker 2: a short list of women that we competed on those stages. 170 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 2: You know, what are your thoughts heading into that? You know, 171 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 2: you don't want to jump over a Statlander caliber opponent, obviously, 172 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:25,079 Speaker 2: but you know, looking past her, I don't mean to 173 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:27,200 Speaker 2: say it the way looking past her. You know, what 174 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:30,439 Speaker 2: are your thoughts? What's the heading into this event? What 175 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 2: do you think this means for you and aew and 176 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:35,960 Speaker 2: what are you looking forward to most in your match? Again? 177 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 2: Is zeus sixth. 178 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 3: Zusius us well obviously and then creningrats, I'm being the 179 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:45,319 Speaker 3: champ too. 180 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:47,560 Speaker 2: That's just unbelievable, by the way, thank you. 181 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 3: They just they told me yesterday that I am actually 182 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:54,760 Speaker 3: the first American to hold that championship and. 183 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:57,719 Speaker 2: I was like, I did WHOA, No, I didn't know that. 184 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, so I was like, that's really cool. 185 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, I figured someone would a like lunaf Lajahn or 186 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 2: somebody would have been down there calls and have it before. 187 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:09,599 Speaker 2: But hey, that's great, that's even that's even more so. 188 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, so uh, definitely not overlooking stout Lander. You know, 189 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:19,960 Speaker 3: CMLL doesn't. They're not big into the blood and the 190 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 3: guts and the hard course stuff, so they're not even 191 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 3: sanctioning the match, so it's it's not for the title. 192 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 3: But I have to imagine that if if what I'm 193 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 3: planning on Dewey happens, if the plan that I have 194 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 3: for stat Lander goes as planned, and I me knowing her, 195 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 3: thinking that she would have a lot of brutalities were 196 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 3: for me as well, Obviously I have to take an 197 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 3: account I'm probably not gonna be feeling my best after 198 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:47,559 Speaker 3: this match when when lose whatever draw, I'm going to 199 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 3: probably be feeling. 200 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 4: Like, uh, pile two the next day. So I have 201 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:56,960 Speaker 4: to take that into account when I'm thinking ahead. 202 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:00,199 Speaker 3: And there's the question of like do you push you're 203 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 3: training harder, do you give yourself a break? Mexico City, 204 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 3: the elevation, he's a little killer, and that plays the 205 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 3: effect or in the game. So these are all things 206 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 3: that I have been considering going into that match. And 207 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 3: I am excited nonetheless, because the last time I was 208 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 3: in Arena Mexico, I felt so much love. I felt 209 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:29,800 Speaker 3: like this air of just like the best thing whord 210 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 3: that pops in my hair right now is like regality, 211 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:34,439 Speaker 3: Like we don't have a building like Arena Mexico in 212 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 3: the United States. We don't have a much structure that 213 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 3: is specifically dedicated to professional wrestling and has been there 214 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 3: for you know, upwards of sixty seventy years. I think 215 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 3: it was built in the fifties if I'm not mistaken, 216 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:51,520 Speaker 3: And that's insane, the amount of history, of the amount 217 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 3: of professional wrestling matches, the culture, the love, the passion 218 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 3: that has been poured into that building, and that like 219 00:11:57,920 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 3: seeps through those walls. 220 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 4: We don't have any thing like that. 221 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 3: So to go there and visit that and see the 222 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 3: fans who is so deeply ingrained in their culture and 223 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 3: lifestyle is a joy. 224 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 4: So I'm excited. 225 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:13,439 Speaker 3: I'm very excited, even know I'm probably gonna be hurting 226 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 3: and breathing like, but it's I've been so honored to 227 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 3: be carrying this championship with me. 228 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:26,679 Speaker 4: I look forward to, you know, hopefully carrying it for 229 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:29,200 Speaker 4: a very long time at making more trips to Mexico 230 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:31,720 Speaker 4: City because that's what I want to do. And Zeusius 231 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:32,839 Speaker 4: is someone who. 232 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:35,560 Speaker 3: I had my first match at CML against in a 233 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:38,559 Speaker 3: six women tag, so I do have. 234 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 4: A level of familiarity with her. 235 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 3: She came up to AW to wrestle Mercedes ahead of 236 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:46,559 Speaker 3: Forbidden Door, so I also got to check out her 237 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:51,360 Speaker 3: work firsthand again in a singles match, and you know 238 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:56,080 Speaker 3: I've been keeping tabs. I am the CMLL World Women's Champion, 239 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 3: so I have to I need to have my singer 240 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 3: on the pulse and figure out what's going on over there, 241 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:04,440 Speaker 3: who my competition is, who I'm representing, because I am 242 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 3: aware that I'm also I was put into a three 243 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 3: way matt, a three way match that did have a 244 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 3: CML representative there, an AW representative, and a new japan 245 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:21,839 Speaker 3: Strong representative, and I swept that up. But I don't 246 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 3: have a vast experience as a part of the Amazona's division, 247 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 3: and so I have to realize too. I won this 248 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:31,440 Speaker 3: and I'm representing AW first and foremost always, but as 249 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 3: I carry that banner around, I'm representing all of these 250 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:36,679 Speaker 3: women as well, so I have to be familiar with them, 251 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:38,839 Speaker 3: and like, I take a lot of pride to that, 252 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 3: and I take a lot of pride in what they do, 253 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 3: and I'm I'm proud to be carrying that flag right now. Yes, right. 254 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 2: Now you are. I think the technical term is rudo, 255 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:53,839 Speaker 2: rudio rudo or running as a rudeo. Yeah, are you 256 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 2: running a rudo down there? Or are you? Are you technical. 257 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:01,640 Speaker 2: I just go I'm Americans. Just historically. All I was 258 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 2: gonna say historic. 259 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:06,720 Speaker 3: This is this is something that I've come across being 260 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 3: somebody who is an international traveler is usually whenever you're 261 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:17,839 Speaker 3: the foreigner, you are the bad guy. And people can 262 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 3: look at me and feel that way, especially they pick 263 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 3: promo photos of me where I. 264 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 4: Look a little more like I'm gonna beat you up. 265 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 4: I'm a tough guy. Listen, I am a tough guy. 266 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 3: Do not make matters, yes, but I'm gonna have a 267 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 3: good time doing that, And so whatever whatever way I'm hainted. However, 268 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 3: fans perceive me whatever they expect. I don't put a 269 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 3: title or label on it, even even in the United States, 270 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 3: in a w or wherever else I go. 271 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 4: I'm not like, hey, I'm this or I'm not. I'm 272 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:53,920 Speaker 4: just Willow. Where I go, I'm Willow. 273 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 3: Whether I'm having a good time dancing around or kicking 274 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 3: your butt, I'm going to I am authentically one hundred 275 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 3: percent of the time always, So I don't subscribe to that. 276 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, nice, good ass. 277 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 1: So I do have a question, and this is always 278 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 1: we come towards the end of our show where we 279 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 1: we have a little fun and I've got two questions 280 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,400 Speaker 1: for you. The first one is when they came to 281 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 1: you in aw and said, hey, we're making you an 282 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 1: Action figure, what's going through your mind? And the fact 283 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,880 Speaker 1: that you're not just getting an action figure, You're getting 284 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 1: part of the rare addition. You're getting a Chase version 285 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 1: of you not being people can say that in that roster. 286 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:38,480 Speaker 3: I didn't know, so I knew I was getting an 287 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 3: Action figure at the end of last year's kind of 288 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 3: when they first started talking about it. And the first 289 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 3: thought I had was, I gotta tell my dad, because 290 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 3: like that is one of the things that he's always like, 291 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:53,120 Speaker 3: what he did action figure. 292 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 4: He was also so mad that I dyed. 293 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 3: My hair from purple because he was like, you didn't 294 00:15:58,320 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 3: even get an Action figure. 295 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 4: Yet you get rid of the purple hair. You think 296 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 4: about cool, what would. 297 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:02,600 Speaker 3: Be to have that? 298 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 4: Actually you're with purple hair. 299 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:06,240 Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, I'm sorry, it was brilliing 300 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:06,800 Speaker 3: my hair. 301 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 4: I had to get rid of it. 302 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 2: I loved it, right, I. 303 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 3: Didn't even I just was like, I'm getting one, and 304 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 3: that's an honor and that's great and I can't wait 305 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 3: until it comes out. 306 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 4: It really wasn't until I was. 307 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 3: Doing San Diego Comic Con that I found out that 308 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 3: there were going to be two, and I didn't know 309 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 3: anything about a chase. 310 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:28,960 Speaker 4: I didn't know what that meant. 311 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:31,800 Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, this one's gotta be like 312 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 3: limited edition, right, like I was using that term. And 313 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 3: I spoke to smart Mark Sterling, who is, if you're 314 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 3: aware of the major Figures situation, that whole network that 315 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:45,160 Speaker 3: they have, Oh yeah, I was like that that's the 316 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 3: guy I need to talk to about Action Figures. 317 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:48,600 Speaker 4: I was like, yeah, they got like a rare figure. 318 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 4: He goes, oh, they made a chase and. 319 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:53,480 Speaker 3: I was like a chase with that, And so he 320 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 3: was the the one who kind of filled me in 321 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:56,160 Speaker 3: on like how special that is. 322 00:16:56,600 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 4: And I was like, damn that is. That's cool, and. 323 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 3: That, to me is like one of the things that 324 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:08,359 Speaker 3: obviously like Action figure stops on the bucket list. But 325 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 3: I didn't realize like, oh, that's cool, that's an extra. 326 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 3: It's kind of similar that to when they put me 327 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,720 Speaker 3: on the truck. Mm hmmm, they put my face on 328 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 3: the aw truck. I was like, man, I didn't even 329 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 3: know that that was something that I wanted to happen. 330 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:23,639 Speaker 2: Yeah, you're damn that's cool. 331 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm soaked about it. 332 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:26,880 Speaker 4: I can't wait. 333 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 3: I want to I mean, obviously, I'm sure that they're 334 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:32,400 Speaker 3: gonna hook me up and send me a few of them, 335 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:36,280 Speaker 3: but I want I want to do the chase, and 336 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:38,719 Speaker 3: I want to go to targets or Walmart's or wherever 337 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:40,840 Speaker 3: stores and I want to find it on the show 338 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:41,639 Speaker 3: with myself. 339 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 2: Yep, the name of the game. 340 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:47,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we've got one more question to ask and 341 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:49,800 Speaker 1: then we're gonna We're gonna let you let you hop 342 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:51,880 Speaker 1: off here because I know your time is busy because 343 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 1: you got to get ready for stat Lander this weekend, 344 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:56,919 Speaker 1: and then of course you're defending your championship down there 345 00:17:56,920 --> 00:18:00,440 Speaker 1: in Mexico. At the end of the show, we always 346 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 1: like to turn to chat GPT to ask our guests 347 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 1: a question. We type in, we type in ask you 348 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:11,200 Speaker 1: know our guest the question, and it usually spits out 349 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:13,800 Speaker 1: how did you start your career in wrestling? Which everybody 350 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 1: can go to Wikipedia and find that out, So we 351 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 1: kind of have to, you know, slap it around like 352 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 1: you're gonna do stat Lander on the week this weekend. Yes, 353 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:22,919 Speaker 1: And finally it came out with a question. 354 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:23,520 Speaker 2: That's fun. 355 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 1: What is your ultimate go to karaoke song? And how 356 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:30,240 Speaker 1: would you rate your performance on a scale of one 357 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:30,640 Speaker 1: to ten. 358 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:37,159 Speaker 3: Oh I, so my go to karaoke song is, uh, 359 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:40,840 Speaker 3: what's up by the four non blonde? 360 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:45,080 Speaker 2: I I would give myself. 361 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 4: A ten out of ten. 362 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:52,640 Speaker 2: Hey, well, yeah, now. 363 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 4: I have to unearthed a video. 364 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:57,760 Speaker 3: I'm sure my mother or my father or my sister 365 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:02,840 Speaker 3: somebody has it somewhere, and I gotta post it so 366 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 3: you guys can see that. 367 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the one. Let me let me present mine 368 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 2: my go to It depends, Yeah, it depends on the situation. 369 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:14,600 Speaker 2: I will a lot of times. We'll go with uh, 370 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:17,440 Speaker 2: I want to dance with somebody when Houston, I get 371 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:20,959 Speaker 2: that about an I get that about an eight. Uh, 372 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:24,280 Speaker 2: I gotta do falsetto for a lot of it, but 373 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:26,200 Speaker 2: a lot of the high notes I hit, it's really 374 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 2: like the when the key change that that that one 375 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:33,159 Speaker 2: I gotta say. But that is also so I get. 376 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 3: A favorite musical term is a modulation. It's fun to say, 377 00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 3: and I love when it change happens and. 378 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:41,000 Speaker 2: They don't happen as much anymore. Music. That's true, very 379 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 2: good call. Other than that, it's usually eighties, it's Journey, 380 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:50,679 Speaker 2: it's Brian Adams, it's Uh. I'll bring out everything I 381 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 2: do I do for you. I'll do kiss from a Rose. 382 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:54,439 Speaker 2: I don't care that that was what I was going 383 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 2: to kind of like the karaoke here, So come come 384 00:19:57,720 --> 00:19:58,520 Speaker 2: on down, we'll go. 385 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:00,000 Speaker 4: Walk is a great one. 386 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 2: I gotta I gotta agree with that. Feels like I 387 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 2: would need to have it with Brody there. I feel 388 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 2: like to be there for that. 389 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:10,919 Speaker 3: You know what, I haven't done karaoke with Brody, so 390 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 3: maybe maybe. 391 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 2: Well, so here's here's what we'll do. 392 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 1: Because my go to karaoke is either Aerosmith I don't 393 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 1: want to miss a Thing or steal Kiss from a Rose, 394 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:21,400 Speaker 1: like I get down to both of those. 395 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:22,119 Speaker 2: So what we'll do. 396 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:24,439 Speaker 3: I know I don't want to try to rap up 397 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 3: a cold. I have to do a little shout out 398 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 3: for don't want miss Thing by Aerosmith because my home 399 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:31,680 Speaker 3: promotion where I learned how to wrestle and see, after 400 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:33,480 Speaker 3: our shows, we would always end up going to this 401 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:35,959 Speaker 3: bar that always do karaoke, and that would be like 402 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:39,639 Speaker 3: the group song that everybody came from the show would sing, 403 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:41,040 Speaker 3: I don't want to this thing by rol Sith. So 404 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:43,200 Speaker 3: you said that and it set me back, like, oh I. 405 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:47,440 Speaker 1: Have those are those are my two go to all 406 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:49,119 Speaker 1: the time. So next time you do a show here 407 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:51,880 Speaker 1: in Nashville, after the show, we'll all get together. We'll 408 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 1: go to Santa's Pub, which is this little trailer that 409 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:57,359 Speaker 1: the guy literally is Santa Claus, and he'll tell you 410 00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 1: a story about how he's been stabbed and shot multiple times. 411 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 1: Oh my god, and everything is cash only. So we'll 412 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:04,520 Speaker 1: all go and we'll see Carrie. 413 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 2: But it's the best place to go for Hieroty Wednesday 414 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:07,679 Speaker 2: nights they have. 415 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:11,920 Speaker 1: Yeah nights, they have it every night, so we'll go. Well, well, 416 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 1: it's an honor and a privilege to have you on 417 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:16,200 Speaker 1: the show. Definitely have to do this very very soon 418 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:18,440 Speaker 1: and before we let you go, anything you want to 419 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 1: say to people that are watching or listening to this 420 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:21,480 Speaker 1: right now. 421 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:26,239 Speaker 3: Tune into aw Dynamite on Wednesday nights on TBS at 422 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:30,879 Speaker 3: eight pm Central or tn T. You can catch Rampage 423 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:35,159 Speaker 3: Friday nights at ten pm Central, or Collision, which we 424 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 3: also have on T and T at eight pm Central 425 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 3: at of course, if you're not at the Now Arena 426 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 3: for All Out this Saturday, you better be tuning in 427 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:48,120 Speaker 3: either on at ppv dot com, Pleach Report, or Triller TV.