It was recently revealed that Taylor is still under contract to IMPACT Wrestling, and has been since her return in April of 2021. She bad been away from the business for about 10 years. Wilde went on a personal hiatus shortly after her return.
Although Wilde’s return wasn’t in front of a crowd, she was still having self-doubts about her return right before her music was about to hit. In a new interview with Denise Salcedo, Wilde detailed what was going through her head right before she madey her return to the squared circle.
“There was a moment when I was standing in gorilla before I re-debuted back in March 2021 and just before my music hit, I was literally like ‘What the fck am I doing’. Like seriously, what the fck am I doing. I am wearing sparkly tights again, I am 35 years old, I am a mom and a firefighter, what am I doing. My legs felt like cement, I was sweating. [Throughout] my entire career, I’ve never felt nervous. There was literally a moment where I was like ‘What am I doing, seriously?’. I literally was having a full inner monologue. I was like ‘I’ve made this decision way too late, here we go.’”Wilde went on to reveal that once she made it to the stage, all of the nerves washed away.
“As soon as I hit the stage, all the negative self-talk cycle, which is you know in all of us. You question everything you do and I was going through a lot of personal stress at the same time and I think that was probably a bigger part of it because when I hit that stage and I saw all of my Wilde Ones and all of my sisters, I was like ‘Oh, I am home!’. It just all washed away within seconds. All of that dissipated the second I hit the stage.”
Wilde recently returned to the company last Friday, October 7th at IMPACT’s Bound for Glory Pay Per View event as part of the Call Your Shot Gauntlet Match.
She has a match against Mia Yim next week on the weekly IMPACT Wrestling episode.
Full interview here:
H/t Fightful’s Sklar Russell. Original article here
Matches announced for 10/20 episode:
IMPACT Wrestling World Tag Team Titles
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-Rich Swann vs Eric Young
-Bullet Club (Ace Austin & Chris Bey) w/Juice Robinson vs Bully Ray & Tommy Dreamer
-Taylor Wilde vs Mia Yim
-Joe Hendry vs Jason Hotch
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