Impact Wrestling star- and former WWE Superstar-Mickie James has spoken recently on the ‘Throwing Down With Renee & Meisha’ podcast, where she discussed about some important issues surrounding her WWE release.
During the interview, James recalls having faced some serious self-confidence issues after being released from the WWE in April 2021. She also stated that, at some point, she was thinking seriously about whether to wrestle ever again.
“Honestly, I wasn’t even considering whether I wanted to wrestle after I left. It was more about raising the awareness for women’s wrestling. Everything else was kind of icing on the cake.
Now I’m sitting in a different seat and more in my own power of trying to figure out what works for me and what I want to do. I lost my confidence. It’s surprising for me to say that, but I feel like towards the end (of WWE), I had a lack of confidence in myself and who I was as a performer, almost like I forgot all this other cool stuff I did and how much it meant to a lot of people.”
The former 5-time WWE Women’s Champion and Impact World Knockouts Champion also explained how she thinks that, after leaving Vince McMahon’s company, she had the chance to do other kind of stuff and was able to give some of the best matches of her entire career.
“To be able to go away, even the way that I did, and then do all of this stuff, it’s been wild. I’ve had some of my best matches of my career,” she concluded.
Credit to ‘Throwing Down with Renee & Meisha’ for the interview, H/T to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription.
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