1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:06,520 Speaker 1: Why from the parts Unknown Studios into the Battle Crowd, 2 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: Battle Bun, the Battle Found. 3 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 2: The Battle Crowd. 4 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:18,480 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Battleground Podcast, your place for all things 5 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:26,120 Speaker 1: pro wrestling, The Battle Road, the Battle Round. 6 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 3: Now making their way to the microphones. Give it up 7 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 3: for your hosts. 8 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:32,240 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Battle Crown. 9 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 4: Yeah. 10 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:38,199 Speaker 2: Well, of course, this week is a fun week on 11 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:40,920 Speaker 2: the episode, actually on the show in general, we have 12 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 2: a lot of episodes playing this week. Impact Wrestling celebrating 13 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 2: twenty years of Impact Wrestling. It's pretty exciting because they're 14 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:50,160 Speaker 2: coming home in a way over there at the Fairgrounds. 15 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,480 Speaker 2: Slammiversary is on Sunday, June nineteenth, which by the week, 16 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 2: so grab tickets Impact Wrestling dot Com. If you can't 17 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 2: make it to Nashville, well, you can watch it on Fight. 18 00:00:58,360 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 3: Of course. 19 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 2: Our friends at Fight will hook us up with code 20 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 2: that we will give away to un lucky listener. 21 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 3: Eli's here with us. 22 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:06,479 Speaker 2: We're in studio, and I feel as if today's guest 23 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 2: has taken the title of most times appeared on the show. 24 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 3: Correct, She's the new champ. 25 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 2: She's the new champion. Mickey James is in the studio 26 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 2: and she beat her husband for don't tell her that 27 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 2: Nick listens to the show. 28 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 3: I think. 29 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 2: But so let's let's kind of talk about this because 30 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:32,400 Speaker 2: I mean, we're here to talk about Slammiversary. I want 31 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 2: to go back just a little bit before we get 32 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 2: into Slamiversary talks. I mean, we're about three months out 33 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 2: from you. I don't want to, I guess, rip the 34 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 2: band aid off, but drop I know, dropping the Impact 35 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 2: Knockouts World Championship to Tasha Tales, which, by the way, 36 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 2: just had her on the show. 37 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 3: She had nothing but high praises for you. 38 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 2: She put you over even though she didn't want to. 39 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 2: But now that there's been some time removed for the belt, 40 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 2: but you'd like your luggage to be a little bit 41 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 2: more heavier when you're getting on that plane in the like, Hey, 42 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 2: I got this carry on right here, and just make 43 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 2: sure it doesn't get lost. 44 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: Yeah. I think as a woman, and it's probably the 45 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 1: only time where I would say I wish my waistline 46 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: was a little thicker. 47 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 5: You know. 48 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 2: So, how historic was your title reign coming back with 49 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 2: the belt? 50 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 1: H Well, you know, if you think about it, Slammiversary 51 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 1: last year was like the first time I stepped back 52 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 1: into an impact wrestling ring. You know, it was like 53 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: the announcement of Empower and to show up there as 54 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:32,919 Speaker 1: a surprise there at Slammiversary last year and then look 55 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 1: at how much has happened in a year. Yeah, not 56 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:37,680 Speaker 1: only was I able to come back put on Empower 57 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:39,919 Speaker 1: and that was incredible, but come back and win the 58 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 1: championship against Diana Parrazzo and that feud and the matches 59 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 1: I was able to have there from the last woman's standing, 60 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 1: just like this, these moments, you know, and these opportunities, 61 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: they don't come easy, and they weren't certainly something that 62 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 1: I expected on this back end, you know, of what 63 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 1: I was doing, and that Texas Death Match instilled to 64 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: me is like it tested me on a new level, 65 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: you know. And I will always put Deanna up there 66 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 1: as one of the best women I've ever been in 67 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 1: the ring with, and I think our styles were so different, 68 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 1: but yet the core is still the same. And that 69 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: match was the perfect culmination of like that whole feud 70 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: and then to come out of it and then to 71 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: have someone rise up through the ranks in the meantime 72 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 1: as Ntasha and really carve out her own kind of 73 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 1: niches who she is, and I think that she really 74 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 1: stepped up into who she is as a as a 75 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 1: performer and as a female and a viable contender and 76 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: obviously the champion at the moment. I know, I don't 77 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: know why you had to bring thros salt in the wound. 78 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 3: I'm sorry. 79 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing though, is like you look at 80 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 2: all the stuff that you accomplished once you got that title, right, 81 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 2: I mean, everything you had the hardcore match, you brought 82 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 2: it to another company, and I. 83 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 1: Heard of at the amount of people that was yeah. 84 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't like to toot my own horn, 85 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 1: but BB to toot A lot of people are like, 86 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 1: there's no way. There's no way they're gonna let her 87 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 1: walk out there with the championship. There's no way they're 88 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: gonna let her be hardcore country. There's no way they're 89 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: gonna play the music. There's definitely no way that they're 90 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 1: going to, uh like say that she is right and 91 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:23,719 Speaker 1: chased the champion. 92 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:25,280 Speaker 3: I think that was the most surprising thing to. 93 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 1: And to hear uh you know, Impact Knockouts World Champion 94 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 1: and be have that announced at that match. It's such 95 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 1: a historic thing and I can't think back I look 96 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 1: back as must have been twenty years ago, and of 97 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 1: course you know that another championship has even showed up 98 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: on that television and be able to make history and 99 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 1: to be able to do it as a woman, And 100 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: I think even with the year removed of like everything 101 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 1: that happened in that year to be it was so amazing, 102 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 1: you know. And to have really the support of the fans, 103 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: the support of Impact and the support of WWE together 104 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: combined to make that moment so special. And it's still 105 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 1: not only was this special to me, but I think 106 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:03,600 Speaker 1: it was one of the standout moments of the night 107 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: and because it was history being made and I'm grateful 108 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 1: to do what I have done it, you know. 109 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, Do you think that's going to be your 110 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:15,919 Speaker 4: most important title reign when it's all said out. 111 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:21,479 Speaker 1: Of all your belts, It might, it might. It's up there. 112 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 1: It's definitely. I mean, I say, it's hard to top 113 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:26,159 Speaker 1: the first one. Yeah, the first one. But I think 114 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:32,480 Speaker 1: definitely probably historically my most important knockouts title reign and 115 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: probably right up their top it's that the first one 116 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 1: in that one. Yeah, might be that it's the right 117 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: and neck and neck because of different reasons and because 118 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 1: I was in different places on the journey, you know, 119 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 1: first coming in the first one, it's so sweet. You 120 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: work so hard to get there, and it's the culmination 121 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:51,679 Speaker 1: of all your dreams coming true. And then that one 122 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 1: was you know, proving a lot of people wrong and 123 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: also proven myself wrong and right again because you start 124 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:01,040 Speaker 1: like a lot of self doubt will come in and 125 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: these moments of you know, I'm not going to say despair, 126 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 1: but of it in that question of like, okay, well 127 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 1: what am I going to do now? What is that path? 128 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:13,360 Speaker 1: Or what is Mickey James and wrestling and twenty twenty 129 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 1: two look like? And this is not what I anticipated? 130 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 3: Right well, and women face so many different challenges than 131 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 3: men performers, you know, inside ing outside the rings. 132 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:25,279 Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean if you would have said twenty 133 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:29,279 Speaker 1: years ago, we're talking about Slammiversary twenty years of Impact 134 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:33,280 Speaker 1: and I started with impact in its baby form as 135 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 1: a little Alexis THREI and how much that's grown. Twenty 136 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 1: years ago, you wouldn't have said that a woman would 137 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: have ever had a twenty year career, especially on television. 138 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:46,360 Speaker 1: Like I remember when I first broke in and they 139 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:48,359 Speaker 1: were like, be lucky if you get to TV. And 140 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 1: if you do as a woman in your career will 141 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 1: be five years top. So make your money and then 142 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 1: it's great, you can go home and have babies. And 143 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:58,240 Speaker 1: it's like, oh, like my life was already after wrestling, 144 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:00,839 Speaker 1: life was already planning. Yeah, why does it have to 145 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 1: be that? Because I feel like I can still go 146 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 1: And I had an opportunity to prove that the first 147 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: time and to leave and then re establish myself and 148 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: Impact Wrestling and kind of come back. And by then 149 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 1: the Knockouts division had grown so much that it was 150 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 1: women like Lisa, Marie Tara wanted to come to Impact 151 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: because of the women's division, because of the foundation that 152 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 1: had been laid, and because of the work that Gail 153 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 1: Kim and Awesome Kong were doing and they were allowed 154 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 1: to do so much and be giving opportunities that you 155 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 1: weren't seeing anywhere else. And I've seen women have talked 156 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 1: to women that wanted to come to Impact just because 157 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 1: of that, and that was like even Lisa, I've talked 158 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 1: to her all the time. Obviously, we have a show, 159 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:46,520 Speaker 1: I know, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's called Grown as Woman. 160 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: I know you listen in all the time, but we've 161 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 1: talked about that several times like that was one of 162 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 1: the that was the main focus of why she wanted 163 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 1: to come there, and so to be able to come 164 00:07:56,480 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 1: there and then rebrand myself and put my faith back 165 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 1: in myself and take a chance on myself, and to 166 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 1: be able to come up with hardcore country collectively together 167 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: and then present that and it really resonated with the 168 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: fans to a point of I always wanted that hardcore 169 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 1: country to be seen by a WWE audience, and I'd 170 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: prayed about and like, how could I make this happen? 171 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 1: It just wasn't something that they saw, you know. But 172 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 1: then when I can't, but you see the validity and 173 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: it when I came back for the Royal Rumble and 174 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 1: that hardcore country music hit and the people were like, 175 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:32,199 Speaker 1: holy crap. 176 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:35,520 Speaker 3: I was there in that building that. 177 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: And like I lost my mind. And I tell you what. 178 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:41,679 Speaker 2: There was a father and he had two kids with him, 179 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:45,120 Speaker 2: He had his daughter and son, and they were talking 180 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 2: about it and they were like the daughter started crying 181 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 2: when you came out, and she was like, I want 182 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 2: to be like her, and that's what she was saying, 183 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:54,719 Speaker 2: and like when you sit here and think about it, 184 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 2: like and I get chill bumps thinking about it because 185 00:08:57,320 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 2: I had, you know, I watched the videos back when 186 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:01,439 Speaker 2: we posted about it, and you got to think, it 187 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 2: is like when we were growing up, when it came 188 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 2: to female wrestlers, it was just the bra and panties. 189 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:07,559 Speaker 3: Matches and all this other stuff. 190 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 1: Yeah I can yea. And none of the girls were 191 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 1: val comedic stuff. 192 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 2: Right. You had the girls that are like, I don't 193 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 2: want to be a wrestler when I grew up. But 194 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 2: now you look at it and you see everybody out 195 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 2: here cosplaying female wrestlers, wanting to be wrestlers. I mean, 196 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 2: you look at the next generation of people and it's 197 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,599 Speaker 2: like you're seeing more and more female wrestlers getting. 198 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:31,119 Speaker 1: In right, and you're seeing more women trained to be wrestlers. 199 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 1: And I think that's a testament to the hard work 200 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 1: that I think there's a lot of women that go 201 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 1: uncredited for the foundation of having to do a lot 202 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 1: of that stuff, but all to try to raise awareness 203 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:45,440 Speaker 1: and credibility, to prove that we could be valid contenders 204 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 1: and that we were equal, and it presented the right 205 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 1: way would be seen in that light. And now you're 206 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 1: looking at it and you see this crop of women 207 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 1: that are coming in now that are professional athletes and 208 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:00,719 Speaker 1: all these coming from all these different avenues and are 209 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 1: training to be wrestlers because of women like Jazz, or 210 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 1: like Gael or even myself. But I go, I looked 211 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 1: up to sensational Sherry, but Trish and Leda and all 212 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:14,680 Speaker 1: these because if they were getting these opportunities slowly but sure, 213 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:17,560 Speaker 1: and we're just chipping away, chipping away until now you're 214 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 1: seeing women as the main event and women in cage 215 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 1: matches or you know, Queen of the Mountain match first 216 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 1: time ever here. Yeah, that's happening. You know, like these 217 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:33,719 Speaker 1: opportunities and it's really amazing to see this generation thriving 218 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 1: and really getting some golden opportunities. But I just can't 219 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 1: imagine like what the future entails now that it is 220 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 1: at that same level, because you know, with the rise 221 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:50,560 Speaker 1: of popularity and expectations, you know, it keeps pushing the goalpost. 222 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:53,079 Speaker 1: So it's exciting. It's exciting. 223 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 4: Well, and you've got the trolls too, like who's that 224 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:58,199 Speaker 4: the Internet wrestling community? 225 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:00,960 Speaker 3: I everyone Twitter account? 226 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:03,080 Speaker 1: Is that I block them? 227 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:03,319 Speaker 3: Yeah? 228 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this about me? 229 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:05,200 Speaker 2: Right? 230 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 3: Yeah? 231 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 4: You know, but you've always got but you know, I 232 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 4: will say that the people we've taught to that either 233 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 4: you know, own a wrestling school or their trainer or whatever. 234 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 3: The attendance for female trainers is just every year. 235 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 1: Right, this year to teach women how to Like I say, 236 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 1: my trainers were always men because there weren't female trainers, 237 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:29,600 Speaker 1: There weren't female agents, there weren't there wasn't really women's 238 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:33,680 Speaker 1: voices in those rooms, in those decision making rooms. Right. 239 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 1: So even what we were seeing on television was and 240 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 1: I don't mean this in a bad way, but it 241 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:42,080 Speaker 1: was a male's perspective of how a woman thinks. And 242 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 1: it's not accurate, especially not active just nailed it twenty 243 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 1: twenty two. So now to have these and there weren't 244 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:51,840 Speaker 1: enough women who had had the longevity and stuck around 245 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:54,120 Speaker 1: to be able to get behind the scenes, to be 246 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 1: in those positions to say, no, this is actually yep, 247 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 1: how we think and how it would go, you know, 248 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 1: And that has changed the game a lot, Like it's 249 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 1: so important to have people like that, Like what Gail's 250 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:10,840 Speaker 1: been able to do with the Knockout's Division is incredible, 251 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 1: and I think that is a testament to why it's 252 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 1: really the division that the women want to be in, 253 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 1: like because of the opportunities that we get there, you know, 254 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 1: and the stories that are being told and to be 255 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 1: seen as legitimate wrestlers. 256 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:28,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think it's like you said, because you know, 257 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 4: formally you'd have that three to five year career and 258 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 4: now people are getting those ten, twelve, fifteen, and then 259 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 4: like you said, and now you can use that influence 260 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 4: backstage you MEDUSA Jazz, right, Gail cam you know, you're 261 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 4: using it. 262 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:42,679 Speaker 1: For the women in the locker room. Respect these women, 263 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 1: because these are the women that they looked up to 264 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 1: and one it that emulated their careers after, you know. 265 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 1: And so when they were watching it, just as the 266 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:52,880 Speaker 1: men were watching the Shawn Michaels of the worlds, like, 267 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: these women were watching these women because they wanted to 268 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 1: be and made them want to be professional wrestlers. You know. 269 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 1: So it's kind of it's pretty beautiful how far we've come. 270 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 3: Absolutely. 271 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:05,719 Speaker 4: Yeah, well we're gonna do a little reciprocating a little bit. 272 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 3: We we just talked to Tasha Steele and of course, 273 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 3: you know. 274 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 1: I heard you had some sideways to say earlier, so 275 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:13,760 Speaker 1: well I didn't say. 276 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:13,959 Speaker 5: That, but. 277 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 3: Not pointing the finger. 278 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 1: I'm just sitting on. 279 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:24,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, But you know, each champion brings something different to 280 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 4: the table. Deanna was definitely more of a technician. You 281 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 4: were the returning legend. 282 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 3: What does Tasha bring to the table as a champion, Like, 283 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:32,560 Speaker 3: what are you seeing in her? 284 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 4: Yeah? 285 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 1: I know her music is annoying because it makes my 286 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:45,080 Speaker 1: shoulders go and I'm trying. I'm like, I'm not stop it. No, 287 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 1: She's got tons of personality. She's magic on the mic. 288 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 1: I would say, like I remember seeing her at the 289 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 1: Knockout s Knockdown and watching her and that I go 290 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:56,200 Speaker 1: like this girl and it was right after the split 291 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:58,600 Speaker 1: and like her garat kind of gone, and I'm like, 292 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:02,880 Speaker 1: this girl a star. Like she's got she's solid in 293 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 1: the ring, and she's like she has her own style, 294 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:09,400 Speaker 1: and she's very charismatic. And I think that she just 295 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 1: for me. She checks all the boxes, you know, because 296 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 1: I look at everyone well round it like there's a 297 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:17,199 Speaker 1: lot of great wrestlers, but at the personality and the 298 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 1: charisma and all the things, and obviously there's a place 299 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 1: for everybody. But at the same time, I just felt 300 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 1: like she she really represents this new generation of women's 301 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:30,320 Speaker 1: wrestling very well, because she's tough in the ring, and 302 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 1: she is tough as nails, even if I gave her 303 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 1: crap about Savanna all the time. She's tough. And she 304 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 1: is so clever and witty just in like back and 305 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 1: forth and on the microphone. And that is hard. You 306 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 1: can't just teach that. That's confidence. And it takes a 307 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 1: while to find your groove and to find your confidence 308 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 1: to be able to just spit like that. 309 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 3: And so yeah, and there's not really any champion like 310 00:14:57,680 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 3: her right now. 311 00:14:58,160 --> 00:14:58,920 Speaker 1: Really there isn't. 312 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, there isn't. I think that's part of the reason 313 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 3: that she's coming across so special, because it's really not somebody, right. 314 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 1: Yeah. I have to be careful because you know when 315 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 1: I put her over, what she does is she records this. 316 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:15,000 Speaker 1: She calls it a receipt, just to put it in 317 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:17,640 Speaker 1: her little bank for later. Yeah, So she's going to 318 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 1: record it and then she'll send if I ever have 319 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 1: something to say, she's going to send it to you. 320 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 1: You remember that, Remember that time, That's like the time 321 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 1: you talked about how great I was. Right, Oh, you don't, 322 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 1: but I have it right here here, look at you. 323 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 2: Just know that there's a video of her putting you 324 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 2: over on our show out there on Twitter right now, 325 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 2: so it's out. 326 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 1: There, So it's there, I know. 327 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 2: But let's let's kind of transition. We'll talk about slamm Versary. 328 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 2: Of course, there's the big historic match, the Queen of 329 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 2: the Mountains going down, and you've got a whole list 330 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 2: of people on there, and of course, pulling back the 331 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 2: curtain a little bit, we're talking about slam Versary. You're 332 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 2: in town to talk about slam Versary. But I look 333 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:58,880 Speaker 2: at the list and you're not on Slammiversary, So what's 334 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 2: what's happening with you at Slimmiversary. 335 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:04,360 Speaker 1: Well, I'm so glad you brought this up. Yes, I'm 336 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 1: not wrestling in the match for the Queen of the 337 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:09,040 Speaker 1: Mountain match. I mean, it's pretty historic, though, Like I 338 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 1: sat back and I looked at it, and I go, 339 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 1: you know, this is impact has been such a massive, 340 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 1: you know, influence in the entirety of my career. But 341 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 1: we're celebrating twenty years and there's gonna be tons of surprises. 342 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot happening, and it's going to 343 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:29,240 Speaker 1: be like the show of the year. Honestly, But I 344 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 1: was like thinking, I'm like, god, there's so much talent, 345 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 1: all former champions in this match, and it's the first 346 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 1: ever Queen of the Mountain match. And I called Gail 347 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:40,760 Speaker 1: and I'm like, I I have obviously history with Deanna, 348 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 1: and I have history with Tasha, and I even have 349 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 1: history with Chelsea at this point, who has been a 350 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 1: massive thorn. We're going to get to her in my side. 351 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: And I thought I had a friend, but I do not. 352 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 1: There's no such thing as friends in wrestling. Yeah, I 353 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 1: don't know how I've not learned this twenty years later, 354 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:01,120 Speaker 1: but here we are. And so you know, you talk 355 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:03,680 Speaker 1: about me a yam who's just come back, you know, 356 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:05,120 Speaker 1: and she's. 357 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:07,560 Speaker 3: Been pick up by the way massive. 358 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 1: She's amazing. And Jordan Grace like the strongest woman in 359 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:12,159 Speaker 1: wrestling right now. 360 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 4: I think Cardona said he thinks she's the strongest competitor 361 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:16,720 Speaker 4: he's ever faced she ever. 362 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 1: I watched her matches and I'm like, oh. 363 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:21,359 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's just ridiculous. 364 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:25,960 Speaker 1: It's insane. And I'm like, I'm not. I don't know 365 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 1: if you know this, but I live in Nashville now, 366 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 1: and there is no way this anniversary show is going 367 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:35,239 Speaker 1: down without some hardcore country. Yeah, And so we were 368 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:37,359 Speaker 1: in there thinking, I go, you know what, I want 369 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 1: to make sure it's such a historic night, it's such 370 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:43,160 Speaker 1: a historic match that I want to make sure everything 371 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 1: is on the up and up. There's no outside interference, 372 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:50,959 Speaker 1: there's no shenanigans. Obviously, I you know, I haven't been 373 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,280 Speaker 1: the champion in a little bit, and so I want 374 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:58,400 Speaker 1: to make sure whoever wins that championship that night is 375 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:02,639 Speaker 1: not only the champion but also is on notice because 376 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 1: obviously my eyes on the prize always of course, But 377 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:09,960 Speaker 1: it's interesting. What do you mean interesting? 378 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:12,160 Speaker 4: Well, I just I'm trying to read between the lines. 379 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 4: I'm trying to see. I'm trying to figure out how 380 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 4: you're gonna get. 381 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:16,840 Speaker 1: But there's gonna be I already promised. Let's listen, everything's 382 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:18,280 Speaker 1: on the up and up, and it's going to be 383 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:20,960 Speaker 1: a fair a fair match. 384 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:21,200 Speaker 3: Right. 385 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:28,679 Speaker 1: Of course they can't look into my eyes, but of 386 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:32,920 Speaker 1: course no, Like it's all of these women are mega talented, 387 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:35,320 Speaker 1: they've all been champions before, they have nothing to prove 388 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:38,200 Speaker 1: in that aspect, and any one of them can walk 389 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 1: out as champion that night. That's the reality, and I 390 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 1: just want to be sure that there's no shenanigans and 391 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:47,159 Speaker 1: that whoever's meant to be champion will be champion at 392 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 1: the end of the night. 393 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:50,200 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you don't want an asterisk off, you know, 394 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 4: it's that an important match like that, like, well, no asterisk, 395 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:58,159 Speaker 4: but she got the chair yet that especially with former champions, 396 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:01,040 Speaker 4: I mean it's time to prove yeah, prove yourself. 397 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:01,879 Speaker 3: Yeah. 398 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 1: So I just want the ladies to know because I 399 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:05,720 Speaker 1: know there might be nervous if we have a little 400 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:09,280 Speaker 1: history or heat, but everything's on the up and up 401 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 1: and we're gonna be it's gonna be great. You know 402 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 1: who's really gonna win that night, the fans. 403 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:15,680 Speaker 3: That's right. 404 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:20,479 Speaker 2: We'll be in attendance there at Anniversary. It's gonna be Sunday, 405 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 2: June nineteenth. You can still grab tickets Impact Wrestling dot Com. 406 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 2: The course, if you can't make it a Nashville you 407 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:27,399 Speaker 2: can watch it on Fight and pay per view. Uh So, 408 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:29,359 Speaker 2: let's kind of talk about this for a quick second, 409 00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:31,400 Speaker 2: because there's some history with somebody involved in the match, 410 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:36,200 Speaker 2: Chelsea Green. So recently you you teamed up with Nick 411 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 2: and you came back to Impact and y'all had that 412 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:42,280 Speaker 2: Mixed Max Tag Match. Would you like to tag with 413 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 2: Nick again later down the road? And how did that 414 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:47,959 Speaker 2: also fill defeating Matt and Chelsea? 415 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:50,119 Speaker 1: Oh it felt great, It felt great. 416 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 5: You know. 417 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 1: They like to run their mouth a lot. 418 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:54,160 Speaker 3: Oh, I see it on social media all the time. 419 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:54,359 Speaker 5: You know. 420 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:56,199 Speaker 1: It was really cute when we were friends because it 421 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 1: was we were like our bessies in the Testie. But 422 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,800 Speaker 1: it's not cute anymore. Yeah, right, idea on the other 423 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 1: side of it, and they've had so much to say, 424 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 1: and there's a I don't know if I can say this, 425 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:09,399 Speaker 1: but there's the same my dad and my grandma used 426 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:10,919 Speaker 1: to say. It is like alligator mouth and a hum 427 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 1: and bird ass And that's kind of you can't say 428 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 1: hum and bird on radio, but I feel like that's 429 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 1: both of them in a nutshell. Yeah, they do a 430 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:23,359 Speaker 1: lot of this. You know. However, I think you know, 431 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 1: Nick and I we've only teamed up a couple of 432 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:28,399 Speaker 1: times throughout our career, and we did that on purpose 433 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:32,679 Speaker 1: because I was already established and known who I was, 434 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:35,120 Speaker 1: I think, and then Nick had come in as Magnus 435 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:38,880 Speaker 1: and he was teaming with Doug and then they you know, 436 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,359 Speaker 1: they were the British invasion and then they've done so 437 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 1: many things, and we obviously have done some stories here 438 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:47,680 Speaker 1: and there, but we've never really been together as because 439 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:50,159 Speaker 1: our careers have always been He was at NWA, I 440 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:55,440 Speaker 1: went back to WWE, and you know, now, I think 441 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:58,920 Speaker 1: there is a place to find that as the National 442 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:00,639 Speaker 1: Treasures Nash couple. 443 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:02,040 Speaker 3: There you go, there you go. 444 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, definitely definitely awesome. 445 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 3: What is the next question? Ooh, this is a fun one. 446 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:17,679 Speaker 4: Yeah, because I mean, at this point there may not 447 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:21,359 Speaker 4: be much, you know, I'm just thinking of it outside 448 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 4: looking at I'm kind of like, I don't know what 449 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,160 Speaker 4: else she could do? But what are some things left 450 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:27,719 Speaker 4: on your bucket list of things you want to accomplish 451 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:29,800 Speaker 4: before you hang up your boots? 452 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,280 Speaker 3: Is there anything left on the on the on the checklist? 453 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:32,520 Speaker 2: You know? 454 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,359 Speaker 1: That's what I've been spending. Yeah, I say, like after 455 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: I lost the championship from Tasha, and I've really been 456 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 1: sitting back and going like what else? 457 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 5: You know? 458 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:44,960 Speaker 1: You always like when you reach a goal, you raise 459 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:46,679 Speaker 1: it and you get a new goal and get a 460 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 1: new goal. And I think what I've been able to 461 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,440 Speaker 1: do in this last year has been pretty remarkable and 462 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, I think for the first time 463 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:57,480 Speaker 1: in my life, and I'm sorry I'm getting emotional, but 464 00:21:57,760 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 1: for the first time in my life, in my career, 465 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:00,639 Speaker 1: I really don't know. 466 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's a good place to be. Yeah, I 467 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 3: mean it really is. 468 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:05,879 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, am I getting cry about it? But 469 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:09,159 Speaker 1: it's wild to think that I've been able to do 470 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:14,160 Speaker 1: so much, you know, And if you would have total 471 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:17,200 Speaker 1: Lexis three here at the Nashville Fairgrounds twenty years ago, 472 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:19,560 Speaker 1: like just we're going to have this career. Just wait, 473 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:23,160 Speaker 1: be patient, all the things that people say to you. Yeah, 474 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,640 Speaker 1: And now we sit here now and I go like, God, 475 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,639 Speaker 1: this last year has been unbelievable for me. Yeah, you know, 476 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:34,119 Speaker 1: and I'm so grateful, and I think what feels natural 477 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:38,560 Speaker 1: for me is to find that place of where I continue. 478 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,200 Speaker 1: I think the end goal was always to leave the 479 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 1: business better than you found it and to continue to 480 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,080 Speaker 1: change the game and raise the bar. And if I 481 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:50,719 Speaker 1: can help the women along the way now that are 482 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:52,640 Speaker 1: going to be able to do that, so that stays 483 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 1: on a roll and we keep rising, that's really it. 484 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 1: And how I do that, I don't know, Yeah, I 485 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 1: don't know. Well, luckily I got to go locker room 486 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 1: around me and a good group of ladies. Yeah, you 487 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:05,119 Speaker 1: know that all believe and have the same vision. 488 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:05,639 Speaker 5: Ye know. 489 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,639 Speaker 4: Well, And it's like, you know, if we if we 490 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:10,639 Speaker 4: call this year whatever you want to call it, the 491 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:15,359 Speaker 4: post wwe run the last one. I mean, I mean, 492 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 4: if you stopped now, I mean like that was a 493 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,160 Speaker 4: huge exclamation point. I mean between the stuff you've done 494 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:22,960 Speaker 4: with n WA winning the title. I mean, just like 495 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,600 Speaker 4: you said, the last twelve to sixteen months have to 496 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:26,880 Speaker 4: be kind of a fairy tale to you. 497 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:27,680 Speaker 3: At this point. 498 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,440 Speaker 1: Is And it's like that's kind of crazy, because I 499 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:33,400 Speaker 1: just that question has been kind of I stepped away 500 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: after losing the titles. I was like I need to. 501 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:38,439 Speaker 1: I was so blown away about the last year already, 502 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:40,879 Speaker 1: and I go, like, what what am I going to do? 503 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:44,160 Speaker 1: Like what is it? What is next? And that's really 504 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 1: the what I've been trying to find the answer to 505 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:48,439 Speaker 1: these last couple of months as I've been in this 506 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,240 Speaker 1: reset moment, and I think the goal will always be 507 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: to continue to like help women in wrestling and be 508 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:58,560 Speaker 1: a part of the women's division in some capacity, you know, 509 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:03,200 Speaker 1: and continue to like help these girls and ladies you will, 510 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:04,680 Speaker 1: you know, really? 511 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Well, I mean we don't want to take 512 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,000 Speaker 2: up too much your time. And I figured we just 513 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:12,520 Speaker 2: ended with a good thing right there that you just said. 514 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:14,879 Speaker 2: And where can people keep up with you online? Because 515 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 2: I mean it's hard to like carry on this interview 516 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:19,960 Speaker 2: after you just put that exclamation point right there and 517 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 2: left everybody in the field good stuff. 518 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:23,679 Speaker 1: Oh, I know, And I didn't mean I'm sorry. I 519 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 1: get emotions. This is what happens, and you're so when 520 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 1: you love silly wrestling, sometimes you just get real passionate 521 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,680 Speaker 1: about it. You can find me. You go to Mickey 522 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:34,520 Speaker 1: James dot com and you can find everything, all my 523 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:38,359 Speaker 1: socials and all the things. It's pretty simple. It's usually 524 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 1: at Mickey James, but they kind of vary eate. So 525 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 1: just look for the blue check mark. That's the blue 526 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,199 Speaker 1: check mark, unless it's TikTok, because I haven't figured out 527 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: TikTok yet and so they. 528 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:49,200 Speaker 3: Don't have a check mark TikTok. 529 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:50,680 Speaker 1: It's embarrassing. 530 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 4: I get on TikTok for like a day and like, 531 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:55,280 Speaker 4: I don't want to learn this. I don't care about. 532 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:57,560 Speaker 1: I thought it'd be clever and i'd call it miktalk 533 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 1: and I can't even figure out how to post it, say. 534 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 3: Trademark, trademark trade, last thing like that. 535 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 2: The last thing I posted on TikTok was where Ziki 536 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 2: got chopped by Rich Swan. That was the last thing 537 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 2: I posted on TikTok. So that was it, and that 538 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:15,720 Speaker 2: was it the last TV tapings. But of course it's 539 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:19,960 Speaker 2: going down on Sunday, June nineteenth. Impact Wrestling Clenniversary returns 540 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 2: home for the fair Grounds June nineteenth. 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