Professional wrestling legend and former five times WWE Women’s Champion Mickie James who is also the current and five times TNA Knockouts champion recently talked about the state of women’s wrestling right now and how it was incredible these days.
Mickey James was one of the biggest names of the women’s division during her Prime days in WWE. She worked throughout the 2010s had been one of the faces of the women’s division of WWE. She won the WWE Women’s Championship five times in total and also the Divas Championship one time. In 2010 she was released from WWE.
Mickie James Explains How Women’s Wrestling Is Incredible Right Now
After getting released from WWE she went to work on the independent circuit and also signed with TNA Wrestling. She maintained her status wherever she worked in. She had been the knockout champion of TNA wrestling for four times in total. She also won a lot of championships throughout the independent circuit.
In 2016 she returned to WWE as a part of WWE SmackDown after the second brand split. Fans were really excited to see her back in the promotion but she was brought back only to promote new stars this time and not as a potential main event star anymore.
She worked in WWE for five years and was released again. After her WWE release, she returned to Impact Wrestling. Recently, she faced Jordynne Grace at Impact Hard To Kill pay per view event and defeated her to capture her fifth Impact Knockouts Championship.
Mickie James who is also the current and five times TNA Knockouts champion recently spoke to Denise Salcedo from Instinct Culture where she talked about the state of women’s wrestling right now and how it was incredible these days. She said;
“How amazing, how exciting of a time is it in 2023 when we are looking at Lita as a Tag Team Champion with Becky? Now looking at Team Bestie going to be at WrestleMania, two women who I’ve shared a lot of history with, and who I admire, look up to, find hella inspiring, and I just adore.
“You see that happening there. You see, in IMPACT, I’m the Champion in 2023, and our tag team division is shining so bright, and the women in that locker room. Then you see over at AEW, Saraya comes back from a career-ending injury. Someone who they said, ‘Oh, she’s never going to wrestle again.’
“What a freakin magical time in professional wrestling and not just in women’s professional wrestling, just in professional wrestling across the board,” James continued. “For a long time, it used to be like, ‘Oh, well, they’re retired,’ or ‘they’re this,’ and it would all be about this whole new — and it was never that way about the men as much as it was for the women.”
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