ODB discusses how her character came to be.
Former TNA Knockouts Champion ODB was recently a guest on the Two Man Power Trip Of Wrestling podcast to promote her new autobiography. During her conversation with John Poz, ODB revealed that Al Snow told her to lean into the “One Dirty Bitch” character during her time in OVW.
“I was really passionate about my character, and I was so different. And then there were times where I didn’t really give a rat’s ass. I just wanted to test things like if I get in trouble for grabbing my boobs for so long. It’s just little stuff like that where I got a little slap on the wrist here and there, but it all turned out good.”
When asked about if it was her idea to use a flask, ODB said, “Yeah, I was doing the whole beer gimmick, but that’s Stone Cold’s thing. Then I didn’t even tell TNA what I was doing, and I remember James Storm was there, so I couldn’t do the beer thing because that was his gimmick. I didn’t want to piss anyone off. So I had a flask, and I was like, ‘Hmm. I not even gonna tell anyone what I’m doing.’ So I had it in my back pocket, and then I walked out with it, and they’re like, ‘Hey, it works. Keep doing it.’ So I took a chance, and not many wrestlers do that because people are always afraid to get in trouble. I got in trouble here and there, and I really didn’t care. I stayed true to myself.”
Poz asked ODB about the process of leaving OVW and joining TNA, which involved career-altering advice from Triple H.
“Jerry and Jeff Jarrett, when they first started TNA, they know of me. They got the women’s division rocking in 2007, and that’s when they decided, ‘Alright, we gotta pick our girls.’ Gail Kim and Traci Brooks were already there, but they weren’t wrestling really much and they were valeting. Then they were like, ‘Let’s do a women’s division. Let’s get this going.’ So those two, I was very close with them, and then Terry Taylor reached out to me. I was at OVW—I was actually the women’s champion—and Terry called me. He was like, ‘We’d love to have you be a Knockout. We’re gonna send you over a contract.'”
“That week, Triple H was actually at OVW. He watched me perform, and I was so nervous to like go up and talk to him. So I go up and talk to him, introduce myself, and he’s like, ‘I love the character’. He’s like, ‘Damn, too bad you weren’t in the DX days’, you know? And he’s like, ‘I love it’. But unfortunately, The top guys are not like — and obviously Vince did not like [me] or my character and [Triple H] was like, ‘Take that opportunity you have for TNA. I think that’d be very good for your career’. So thanks, Triple H. He could have said, ‘Oh no, stay here, kid. See what works.’ But, nope. He said, ‘Go, go. Do it.'”
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