Mickie enjoys helping younger talent with all aspects of the business and development.
“All of them. I love every, and that’s kind of the beautiful thing, I’ve dedicated over half my life to this business. In that time, I’ve really tried to learn as much as I can about every aspect of the business, from behind the scenes, I’ve been a commentator, I’ve been a producer, I’ve been a trainer. I’ve been a lot of things. There’s a unique sense of joy that I get from each of those things. I could see myself as a manager, I could see myself as a commentator, I could see myself behind the scenes,”James said.
The veteran emphasized that she’s passionate about storytelling and character development, and she feels that a lot of younger talent needs guidance in these areas. She noted that she’d like to share her knowledge with the next generation and help them.
“What I really love is part of the creative process and to help people find and fine tune, whether it be their promos or the character development, and storylines. I’ve always been, even as a fan, I love wrestling. But it wasn’t the wrestling that made me fall in love with wrestling. It was the storylines and the characters, and so that’s really where my heart mostly is. I feel like that’s where I lot of younger talent need the most kind of guidance because they’re been trained on wrestling, but it’s hard to teach character development and that on switch. It’s hard to define, and I love helping the future. I’m grateful that I have hopefully a little bit of knowledge to share with them. I’ve made a lot of mistakes, I’ve had a lot of successes, but I’ve also made a lot of mistakes. I know people are gonna make their own mistakes and learn from their own mistakes, but perhaps if I can streamline that for them so they don’t make as many and it shortens up that journey for them to get the top, then that might be pretty awesome. I think I would find a genuine reward in that as well,”James said.
Mickie is wrestling Mia Yim as part of her “Last Rodeo” career journey.
FULL LINEUP for the Premium Live Event—
Countdown to Bound for Glory:
IMPACT Wrestling Digital Media Title
-Brian Myers open challenge
RAVEN HALL OF FAME INDUCTION
Bound for Glory match card:
IMPACT Wrestling World Title
-Josh Alexander (c) vs Eddie Edwards
IMPACT Wrestling Knockouts World Title-Jordynne Grace (c) vs Masha Slamovich
IMPACT Wrestling World Tag Team Titles-OGK (Matt TAVEN/Mike Bennett) (c) Vs Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin/Alex Shelley)
IMPACT Wrestling X Division Title-“Speedball” Mike Bailey (c) vs AEW star Kazarian
IMPACT Wrestling Knockouts Tag Team Titles-VXT (Deonna Purrazzo/Chelsea Green) (c) vs Taya/Jessicka
-Mia Yim vs Mickie James
Call Your Shot Gauntlet
-PCO
-Heath
-Rich Swann
-Gisele Shaw
-Moose
-Bhupinder Gujjar
-Bobby Fish
-Maclin
-Sami Callihan
(only participants announced so far – there will be more)
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