Taylor Wilde made her IMPACT Wrestling return in October of 2022 during the Call Your Shot Gauntlet Match at the Bound for Glory Pay Per View, after initially returning in 2021, but then having to take a hiatus to deal with personal issues.

In an exclusive for WrestlingNews.co, Steve Fall spoke with Impact Knockouts Tag Team Champion Taylor Wilde. She talks about her first run with TNA and why she left, training The Bella Twins in WWE developmental, getting heat when she debuted in TNA, and more. Here are a few highlights and be sure to scroll down for the video interview.

Taylor Wilde on getting heat for debuting at Impact Wrestling and winning the Knockouts Title:

“Well, the one thing I will say where we were with TNA at that time, is all the Knockouts had known each other and have worked with each other for years on the Indies. For the most part, I think Awesome Kong was probably one of the only women that I hadn’t known. Traci Brooks Nikki Rox, we’d all known each other. Now, at the end of the day, it’s a business. Everyone wants to be champ, a new girl comes in, probably the least exposed even though I had spent some time with WWE before NXT you got hidden. So it’s like you were basically inactive on the wrestling scene. Awesome Kong, Kia, who, honestly, aside from the company, I absolutely owe my career to because homegirl is so talented, but she was also old school in the capacity that it wasn’t like, she was like, ‘Hey, girl, we’re gonna have this great match. Let’s tear the house down.’ It was like, ‘Hey, this is what we’re going to do. I’ll see you out there and then I will decide whether this is going to be good business or we’re going to be girls or whatever.’ There was a tremendous amount of pressure on me because again, lowest on the totem pole of the Knockouts at that time. I’m coming straight in. Even though these are my home girls from the Indies, it’s a business.”

H/T Michael Schrute of WrestlingNews.co Full article here

Fill interview:

Taylor is a former 2x TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champion, a former TNA Knockouts World Champion, & currently one half of the IMPACT Knockouts Tag Team Champions, alongside KiLynn King, who called themselves “The Coven.” Wilde & King won the Knockouts Tag Titles on the March 16 episode of IMPACTonAXSTV when they defeated the Death Dollz.

The Coven are slated to defend their Knockouts Tag Team Titles this week on IMPACTonAXSTV against a former IMPACT Knockouts Tag Team Champion, and the current IMPACT Knockouts World Champion, Deonna Purrazzo, and former 2x IMPACT Knockouts World & former Knockouts Tag Team Champion, Jordynne Grace.

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