Mia Yim returned to IMPACT Wrestling in April of 2022. She’s had some great matches, including an easy “Match of the Night” contender at Emergence back in August where she challenged Jordynne Grace for the IMPACT Knockouts World Title. Those two ladies absolutely tore the house down in that match.
During an appearance on Straight Talk Wrestling, Mia Yim spoke about how the IMPACT Knockouts Division is giving women opportunities to be at the forefront of a promotion. Yim said IMPACT is lucky to have advocates backstage that push to give them the best opportunities instead of worrying about how it affects the rest of the show.
“So I think the biggest thing is like what you don’t see on TV or on-screen, like Gail and Scott, it’s really cool to just be like okay, this is what we want, go out and do your thing. There’s no restriction like, there’s a lot of times, and this is no knock on anybody else,” Yim explained, “but a lot of the times it’s like, okay, we can’t do x, y, and x z because then we don’t want to overshadow the guys’ match before us or kind of take away from the main event that’s gonna be happening, things like that. Whereas Gail is very much like, ‘No, I want the girls to have the best match on the whole card, so go do what you have to do for that.’ So it’s really cool that we can get unleashed and just go all out without any restrictions, anything to kind of hold us back because we just wanna have good matches. But if we overshadow some of the guys, then…. you know?”
Yim also spoke about being a role model to kids and said she hopes to be an inspiration to today’s fans in a similar way that she had growing up.
“I still can’t believe it because it’s like — and a few of my friends say I’m too humble, which I can see it. But I’m just like, yes I’m Mia Yim, but to me, I’ll always be Stephanie, and I’m like, growing up, I was always the shy, nervous, just loner type. I’m so shy now so it’s always like, I don’t know. It’s surreal. I want to be what Chyna and Lita was to me when I was growing up,” Yim explained, “and to show them that like yeah, because when I was growing up, I wasn’t allowed to join the wrestling team, I wasn’t allowed to play football. So it’s cool to be like you know what, just because you’re female and a person a color, you can do a lot of stuff that is meaningful in the world.
“If one person comes up to me and tells me like, ‘You inspired me’ or ‘You helped me out of this situation’ or ‘You made me wanna wrestle’ or whatever the case may be, my career is set,” Yim added, “I’m good. It’s interesting and I still can’t believe when people approach me like, ‘Thank you so much for doing this, it means a lot to me.’ I don’t know. It’s flattering. I’m just shy.”
Mia is competing in a Triple Thread Revolver Match at Victory Road, in which the winner gets a shot at the X Division Title at Bound for Glory on October 7th.
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