After losing to Chelsea Green, Mickie James announced she felt she needed to prove something to herself and began her Last Rodeo run where she intended to face the Knockouts division and work her way to winning the Knockouts Championship.
The flip side of the deal was if she lost at any point she would retire.
Now, with her final goal in sight at Impact Wrestling Hard To Kill on Friday, January 13, she sat down with an interview on Steve Fall’s Ten Count exclusively for wrestlingnews.co to talk about what could be her final match.
The end of hardcore country?
“There’s a lot on the line. The stakes are high. The reality is, I know what I’m going into for this match because Jordynne has been a remarkable champion. She has been an incredible, very impressive champion. I’ve been going back and watching pretty much all of her matches leading up to, because as I was on this last rodeo, kind of trying to prove my way that I still belong on the roster, and working my way up the roster, I’ve watched her hold on to that championship, and very strongly. I know it means a lot to her to keep that championship. I’m sure it would be a good notch in her belt if she was the one to retire me.”
“But I can tell you, obviously, I don’t want to retire. You know I love this business so much and I’ve dedicated a long time to it. I still have so much passion and love for it. But if this is the way it had to end, I would not be sad. I mean, I would be sad in the sense that I would never be able to lace up a pair of boots again, but my career has been amazing. It has been more than I ever expected or anticipated. It was everything that I prayed for, but at the same time, you know, you don’t think that you can accomplish all these things, and I think what I’ve been able to do in the business, even in those times when I thought that the whole world had fell out from underneath my feet, and still to be able to persevere and kind of push through is, it’s been amazing. I really thought to myself like, what else do I have to prove in the business because we always feel like we have some more to prove. Like even in this, like I had to prove that I still belonged in this locker room, in this new era of women’s wrestling.”
Win or lose at Hard To Kill, Mickie’s given us some awesome memories and we’d love to see her career continue, but this would be an epic way for her to end things.
Do you think she’ll win or retire? Let us know in the comments below.
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