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Mickie James On Having Talks With WWE,If She Would Like To Retur
n, TNA, & more.
By: tnafanforum Date: March 18, 2015, 5:44 pm
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Former WWE Divas Champion and TNA Knockouts Champion Mickie
James talks with Brian Fritz of BetweenTheRopes.com about
appearing at WrestleCon 2015 on March 27 and 28 in San Jose,
being around her friends including Ric Flair, being a mom now
and a wrestler, how she looks at her career now going forward,
how close she came to retiring from the ring, her recent return
to TNA in Glascow, if she would like to wrestle full-time again
and possible for the WWE, the #GiveDivasAChance movement and
women in wrestling right now, her memories of WrestleMania 22
against Trish Stratus, the "memorable moment" during that match
and the reaction it got from Vince McMahon and more.
Listen to the interview online or download it at this link.
Subscribe to Between The Ropes on iTunes at this link. Here are
some excerpts from the interview:
Being a mom and a wrestler:
It's a massive change right? One thing for me, and this is
probably true for a lot of people and especially for women in
this industry, it's like one of those things, for me, I spent
the last 15 years prior to having Donovan focusing on me and
what I'm going to do and how am I going to make it? What do i
have to to to achieve my goals and what do I want in life? That
whole want do I want has gone out the window. Obviously, you
still work towards your goals but my vision is completely
centered on what is going to be best for him and what can I do
to provide for him, the life that I want him to have. It's a bit
grounding in a sense because it's changed the way I make my
decisions like is this worth it? What's going to be the best
thing at the end of the day? So that's kind of crazy. And I
wasn't even, at first, considering getting back in the ring
really because I was like, you know, is it too much and you have
to be on the road. But he loves it. It's crazy. I only do shows
on the weekend here and there and we travel I always have to
have someone go with me whether it's my mom or my sister or my
grandma who loves it. He loves wrestling which is frightening to
me. We watch it on TV and I think it's the colors and the
costumes and the action but he is absolutely fascinated by it.
How close she came to stop wrestling after having her son:
I think it was one of those things of, really when I kind of
found out because at that time my whole focus at that point was
… because I had left TNA and I was a free agent. I had some
talks with WWE and my hope was to perhaps maybe go back to WWE
and do something there. I had been working diligently towards
that and when I found out I was already two months along and had
no idea. I had gotten in really great shape, New Year's
resolutions and I was getting shredded and was like 'this is
great'. I was making positive momentum and really doing good and
then I was like 'oh, well what am I going to do now?'. This is
all I know. This is the only life I've known. My life for the
last 15 years is being a road warrior and being a star of sorts.
Sometimes a little brighter than others. I think at that point I
was like how am I going to do this? Maybe this is it. Maybe that
was my … I have been very blessed to have an amazing career, one
that a lot of people would strive to have. So, should I just be
grateful for the fact that I have achieved these goals and done
these things that I wanted to do and got to do in my life and
OK, it's for the next chapter? Luckily, I had so much time to
sit back and think about it because I really couldn't do much
else except for things around the house. I really had to think
what I wanted to do because this is such a cosmetic business as
well. The more I thought about it, I thought there's all these
actors and models and they come back and still do their thing
after they have a kid. Nothing's impossible.
If she would like to go back to a regular schedule with a
promotion:
I guess I'd have to think about that if that opportunity
presented itself with WWE or TNA. Obviously, TNA's schedule is
much lighter as far as television's and they're not doing a ton
of house shows right now. To go back on the road full time … at
the height of my career I was on the road probably 250 days out
of the year at least. I don't know unless I had a nanny with me
on the road full time, I don't know if I could do that.
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