Rosemary on who really started the women’s wrestling revolution:
RM: We’ve said many times the revolution started Impact. To use a very dear and personal example to my heart I obviously grow up watching WWE/WWF at the time and always played wrestling my siblings, cousins grew playing video games and fantasizing about being a wrestler it wasn’t until I got into TNA at the time in 2005 and learned that Scott D’Amore ran a school in Ontario and he had trained the likes of Chris Sabin, Alex Shelley, Petey Williams that Ontario also generated Gil Kim, Angelina Love, Tracy Brooks and these kinds of wrestlers were coming out of Eastern Canada and the way I got hooked on Impact wrestling was specifically the X-Division and, un-ironically, the Monster Abyss, who we ended up getting to work with down the road. That is when I made the decision that I had to and simply must go and train and that was the direction I wanted to go in like not just as a fantasy but as a career choice. In 2007 I packed up everything I knew and moved from Winnipeg to Windsor, Ontario with the intentions of becoming a Knockout because that is what was inspiring to me.
Rosemary on MMA stars invading pro wrestling:
RM: It’s not a new thing for there to be cross-fertilization from other contact sports. I played eight years of rugby before training to be a wrestler. There have been multiple examples of football players and bodybuilders and “legit badasses” opting to go down the path of a professional wrestler. Mixed martial arts and professional wrestling are absolutely siblings in this world. One is a little more theatrical than the other, but you’ll see that the most successful mixed martial artists are the ones who know how to talk. We are absolutely related and it’s very natural just look at recent examples like Brock Lesnar and Bobby Lashley. They were both very accomplished martial arts and if you want you can go even further back to someone like Ken Shamrock. There have definitely been examples throughout wrestling history. With the attention on women’s wrestling now we have Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler appearing on the scene and I think it’s wonderful.
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