Grapsody recently conducted an interview with former WWE and ROH superstar Maria Kanellis, who spoke with the podcast about her newly formed Women’s Wrestling Army promotion, whether she ever plans on competing for WWA, and whether they are interested in working with Joshi-promotions. Highlights are below.
Says she will never wrestle for her Women’s Wrestling Army promotion:
“No. There is this problem that happens when somebody who is on TV is also in a position of power. It should never be a competition. For me, that doesn’t work. I can’t give my entire focus to a company if I’m trying to get my shit over [laughs]. If it’s got to be about me, it’s got to be about me. I will not half-ass it. If I were to get into that mind space, there would have to be something that happened. ‘Oh, you’re going to go to USA Network, they really want you to have a match.’ If Netflix says, ‘We love your show, we want it on Netflix, we really want Maria to have a match.’ Okay, I will have a match. A sponsorship comes along and everybody gets a fantastic payday, fine, I’ll put myself in there, one match. I don’t have any desire. I was done at WrestleMania. I walked out and thought, ‘I’m done, I don’t want to be here.’ I want to be here producing and with my husband, I don’t want to be wrestling.”
Expresses interest in working with Joshi promotions:
“Yes. We do. With COVID, it’s still a little hard, but yes, we do. Some of the girls we work with right now have connections with people so they’ll send over a group and they’ll work around the country. We’re trying to be able to do that as well.”