Renee Michelle recently held an interview with Wrestlling Inc where she discussed her husband Drave Maverick, her time in the Mae Young Classic, and wrestling during a pandemic. She also opened up about wrestling with a high fever and who her favourite opponents are.
Renee Michelle went over her training regime and discussed how she’d been practicing in the ring. She also spoke about maintaining a positive mindset during a pandemic.
Renee stated the following about staying active while not wrestling:
“I was still able to maintain, like, a solid schedule you know minus independent wrestling. But everything else…luckily I was able to maintain everything like I usually do.” Renee explained about her current routine. “I’m still able to attend Crossfit, which is great. I’m still able to attend FlatBacks, you know which is awesome. It still keeps me in-ring ready so just in case when things do open up again, instead of like having that ring rust, I’ll be ready for everyone.”
Renee Michelle might not be massively known on the main shows, but her experience speaks for itself. She’s wrestled in Japan, USA and all over the world. Where as a lot of talent speak about their favourite competitors from the places like WWE, AEW etc; Renne’s favourite opponents are more international:
“I remember I tag-teamed and wrestled with Mickie James, so she’s a sweetheart. Umm, Melina! I wrestled against her in MCW and in Barbados,” Renee began, referencing Face2FaceWrestling’s Bruggadown Barbados event from back in March. “Gosh, I wrestled a bunch of different girls but those are the top I can remember. Oh, and Takumi Iroha [protege of Chigusa Nagayo]!”
One of the most well known sports moments is Michael Jordon playing with a fever in basketball. He had one of the matches of his life, and Michelle has a very similar story. Renne went one-on-one with Tessa Blanchard suffering a fever and she discussed how it was one of the hardest times of her career:
“I was actually very sick, I was running a fever of 104 [degrees Fahrenheit],” Renee recalled. “Basically, the fever didn’t hit me out of nowhere. The fever actually started hitting me like 15 minutes before I had to go out. So it came out of nowhere. Like I thought I was fine and then the fever started coming out of nowhere. I was wrestling in the ring and I’ll never forget I thought I was going to pass out. But I ended up doing a moonsault.
“I think I was wrestling against Tessa Blanchard, during the time we were both very young. And I don’t even know how I even survived that match, because I was in pain! I was in pain, I was in pain definitely running a fever and not feeling the best but I pulled it off!… She’s a phenomenal wrestler.”
With fitness being the key to a strong mind, Renne went into detail over her training regime with Tyler Breeze and Shawn Spears; both who own Flatbacks Wrestling School:
“So there’s Crossfit, then on top of that there’s also,” Michelle started. “I do attend over at Flatbacks, which is owned by Tyler Breeze and Shawn Spears. So they are my trainers right now. I’ve been with them for about a year or so. But they’re the best, they’re good hearts.”
Even with being in the best shape of her life, Michelle is also very concerned about the pandemic and is in no rush to get back into the ring. Renne doesn’t want to wrestle for a company that just does temperature checks, but wants to wrestle for a company that does daily tests:
“No, because I am very conscious of catching everything, anything. Like, I have family that are on the older side. It would be unfair for me…like the coronavirus or something. Yeah, granted I’m young or strong enough I may overcome it. Who knows, I may not I have a weakened immune system but I’m not trying to catch anything. If I was to give it to my mother, my grandmother, my grandfather, you know my father. I put them at risk.” She cautioned. “It would be very selfish of me. I would not mind wrestling if other people were taking the COVID test, but the temperature check does not suffice for me.
“But I’m taking this whole time as a way to revamp myself, to rebuild myself, to get my body right how the way I would want to. To get in-ring ready, to maybe have a whole new completely different look.”
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