Six time Knockouts Champion and TNA Hall of Famer Gail Kim took part in the latest Impact Wrestling media conference call where she explains her decision to leave TNA for WWE in 2008, the launch of the Knockouts division and revealed her all time favorite matches from her career. Transcript courtesy of Wrestling INC.
On the launch of the Knockouts division: “It was great because you just never know what will happen when a company brings in 10 girls all at once, it can probably get ugly in some instances. It was just this magical thing that happened, all these girls just kind of clicked and had their own personality or character. You saw girls from Awesome Kong to Shelly Martinez with LAX, then myself and Jackie Moore and Roxxi Laveaux. It was just a wide, vast array of characters, and we all had our different wrestling styles.
On leaving TNA for WWE in 2008: “It was hard to leave at that time, I literally balled my eyes out because I didn’t want to leave. It was just a business decision at that time, and I had talked to every single person in the office and they understood my decision. Hey, I ended up back home though, so it all worked out.”
Her top three favorite matches of all time: “I might meet people through my husband (celebrity chef Robert Irvine) at events and they’re like, ‘Oh, you’re a pro-wrestler? I have to Google you,’ and I’d say, ‘Don’t watch my WWE matches! Go watch some TNA matches.’ I would say my top three favorite matches of all time would be with Awesome Kong, I had a no-disqualification pay-per-view match, it was Final Resolution, so I’m very proud of that match with her. And of course with Taryn (Terrell), the Last Knockout Standing match and the ladder match. All of those matches just came with the perfect build, we really took our time with all of that and I’m just really proud of them.”
What have been some of your favorite Gail Kim matches throughout her career?
