Trinity Debuted on IMPACT Wrestling on 5/4 and put the entire Knockouts roster on notice. She then appeared for her official debut match on 5/18 against one half of the IMPACT Knockouts Tag Team Champions, KiLynn King.
During a recent appearance on Wilde On with Taylor Wilde, King detailed her emotions heading into the match, and the positive reaction she and Trinity received afterward.
While King was undoubtedly grateful for the opportunity, she admitted that she wasn’t in the best headspace in the weeks leading up to their encounter.
“I’ve been going through a lot of personal stuff, and kind of between the personal stuff, I wasn’t giving my all to some of my wrestling matches. I felt like I was half in, half out,” she said. “I felt like I was kind of out of my body a little bit. And so, a lot of the matches that I had, I just felt like I wasn’t there. I did it, ‘Oh, another match.’”
Upon learning that she’d be wrestling Trinity, King did her best to push her personal worries to the side. Luckily for King, those doubts soon subsided.
“When I got told that I was in that match [with Trinity], I knew how important it was. So, I kind of forced my soul to come back into my body that day. And I was like, ‘We need to get our sh*t together. Okay, this is important. This is a big deal. They trust you to have this match with her. Don’t mess this up.’ There was just that fear in my body all day, ‘Am I going to step up? Am I going to do okay for her?’ And then like the moment I walked backstage and I saw everybody’s faces, I knew — even before that, like in the ring, the moment we started, I felt that energy and I was like, ‘This is going to be a good one.’”
“And then I got backstage, and I saw like Lance [Storm]’s face and Scott [D’Amore]’s face. And I was just like, ‘I did what I was supposed to do, and I still can do this’. No matter what life has thrown at me, I can handle it. I still don’t think I’m 100% okay, but it was definitely something that reminded me that no matter how hard it gets, my passion for this is strong enough that it’s not going to affect me. I think that sometimes we’re worried that life is going to be stronger than the passion, and it’s going to affect to the point where we just can’t do it anymore, and so that was a nice moment to be like, ‘I don’t care what you throw at me. This is what I’m meant to do.’”
Reflecting back on her career, King noted that she’s competed in a number of “big stake” matches.
Facing Trinity was on a whole other level though. “I’ve been blessed with a lot of big stake matches, but that was a big deal, because people have been waiting for a really long time to see where Trinity was going to go, what she was going to do, how she was going to fare on her first match back. And so, I never let it on on that day because I was like professional,” King said. “But in my head, I’m like, ‘Can I do this?’ Just the notion that it wasn’t just me that felt good about it. I walked backstage and I could see their faces. [sighs of relief].”
H/T Ella Jay from Wrestlezone full article here
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King and her partner Taylor Wilde won the IMPACT Knockouts Tag Team Titles on the 3/16 episode of IMPACTonAXSTV when they defeated the former champs, the Death Dollz.
KiLynn recently defeated a retunring Nevaeh at the LIVE Countdown to Against Al Odds show last Friday. King and Wilde, known as The Coven, have quite a few defenses under their belts.
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