Mickie James on Velvet Sky, WWE Divas, and More

Former WWE Divas and TNA Knockout champion Mickie James recently sat down with Scott Fishman of the Miami Herald to talk about her career, her co-workers, her thoughts on the WWE Divas division and more. The Miami Herald posted the second part of the interview with James on May 13th, and in this portion of their conversation, James speaks candidly on working with Velvet Sky and the Knockout division of TNA…

“I love Velvet. She is a sweetheart. She is fun, and the company is really behind her now. They have really started to make her the face of the knockouts. I always try to do my best when I work with anyone and make sure the match as a whole is as wonderful and spectacular and tells that story as much as it can. She is awesome.”

She also comments on the WWE’s Divas division and how development of new talent is so much different than it was she was a part of the company…

“For me, and granted I don’t watch as much WWE programming as I used to when I was part of the company, but I think that has a lot to do with how much trust they have with those people in those matches and telling those stories. Trish [Stratus] said it in her [WWE Hall of Fame] speech that this golden era of women who were some of the best women’s wrestlers in the world, and they aren’t there anymore. This is all over. This isn’t just within that organization. With the exception of Nattie [Neidhart] and Alicia Fox and ones like that, they haven’t been maybe wrestling long enough, but I’m not going to bury anybody. I don’t like doing it…But I learned so much valuable, little things, on the independent circuit coming up the hard way that you can’t learn in just starting to learn how to wrestle in developmental. You can’t. It’s impossible, but there were tons of stuff I learned in developmental. Granted, it was different when I was coming up just because when the business changes everything kind of changes. There were lessons that I learned and all things that made me a superstar. This is what molded me and made me kind of form that I was in the ring.”

James has also been vocal about her frustrations as of late, and she continues to talk about her frustrations with women’s wrestling and the new breed of female wrestlers in general…

“At the end of the day there are very few and far between of those who can stand toe-to-toe at the same level…That is what frustrates me. I can’t stand sitting on the sidelines and watching. I don’t think anybody as a professional or as an entertainer or as an athlete can stand. If I was injured, then that’s one thing, but to be completely 100 percent healthy and be doing absolutely nothing. To me, it built up my frustration up to the point of being just pussyfooting around as the girl-next-door with a big smile on my face and happy about every little thing when in reality I’m frustrated.”

You can read James’ entire interview with Fisher here.

 

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