Gail Kim was planning on an in-ring return and with Mickie James by her side no less!
Kim, who had been out of action since a match against Tessa Blanchard in 2019, returned to the ring for one match in 2023. It was a 10 Knockouts Tag Team match for TNA’s 1,000 episode where she was on the winning team with Mickie James, Trinity, Jordynne Grace, and Awesome Kong.
In a new interview, Kim admitted that her return to the ring wasn’t going to end there. To start 2024, herself and James were going to become a tag team to boost the Knockouts tag division. She even thought, if not James due to timing issues, why not WWE’s Natalya?
While speaking with Gabby AF, she spoke about the follow:
“A lot of people don’t know this, but at the end of last year….now it’s not going to happen, so I can talk about it. We were talking about having me and Mickie (James) tag. Get into the tag division to help boost the Knockouts tag division. The timing wasn’t right. It was supposed to be for the beginning of this year. Nick (Aldis) was going into WWE as Mickie was taking a step back. It wasn’t working timing-wise. Then, I suggested maybe me and Nattie.
I was trying to work with that cross-promotion. Once all the management changes happened at the beginning of this year, I honestly took on so much that I can’t see it happening with the roles that I have backstage. The longer you don’t wrestle for, it just becomes more difficult. To be honest, I care about my body of work so much, if I was going to get in the ring as talent, I have to give it my all. I would literally, probably, have to drop almost everything I do backstage. It’s so much that I don’t know who would fill those roles. I don’t see it logistically happening. It would be a dream to do it with the right scenario. The whole Mickie tag team was a dream scenario. I accepted at that point, so it was going to happen, but now it just can’t. I truly believe everything is meant to be. ‘Okay, Gail, you left it at the 1000th episode. Everything is hunky dory.’ I’m happy with my body of work. Maybe I’m just meant to help lead backstage. I’m okay with that,” she said. (Fightful)
Kim recently spoke about looking to bring in more Knockouts to join the company and increase the division.
