Gisele Shaw made her IMPACT Wrestling debut in 2022. Since then, she’s been a great example both inside of the ring and outside the ring as well.

Speaking with WrestleZone’s Ella Jay, revealed how she landed on a random FaceTime call with “The Quintessential Diva.”

“Three weeks ago, I was freaking out over a match to one of my mentors, and I was just like, ‘I don’t even know who I am out there.’ [I] just had a whole breakdown, and he’s like, ‘All right.’ Hung up on me. He calls me an hour later, he’s like, ‘Hey, are you like good to FaceTime?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, what’s up?’ Gisele Shaw was on the phone and I was like, ‘Hi.’ Then she just sat on the phone and just gave me so much advice,” Steel said. “It was a whole thing. I love her so much. She followed me that night and [said], ‘Send me your matches. I’ll make sure you’re good.’”

Diving deeper into her conversation with Gisele Shaw, Steel noted that Shaw emphasized the importance of finding the balance between her roles as babyface and heels.

“She was basically telling me, ‘Look, have fun. Yeah, you can stress — [it shows that] you care.’ She was just like ‘have fun.’ I was telling her about the crowd reaction, because I was like, ‘I’m working baby[face], but it’s just not fun. I don’t know who I am out there.’ She was like, ‘Look, sometimes it’s going to suck. Sometimes you’re going to have to pause, not start the match until the audience starts. Look at them, baby or heel. You really don’t have to switch up what you do.’”

“[It was] just sort of talking your sh*t to the crowd, talk sh*t to your opponent. It’s still doing the same thing. She was giving me just more-so character advice and just telling me, ‘Have fun, be in the moment. Don’t stress about it. You mess up, you’re not even a year in. You’re good.’”

H/T Ella Jay for WrestleZone. Full article here.

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Gisele has had some big matches in her career, such as a singles match with Trinity at Under Siege back in May, at least one Knockouts World Title match against Mickie James, and a big #1 contenders match for the Knockouts World Title at Multiverse United that she was part of back in March of this year. Shaw has had some very good matches with the top Knockout in the division – Deonna Purrazzo – as well; however, lately she hasn’t been able to get anything going.

Shaw and her crew of Savannah Evans & Jai Vidal lost a match to the team of the Death Dollz & Jody Threat at the Countdown To Slammiversary show on July 15th, and Shaw is set to take on one half of the IMPACT Wrestling Knockouts Tag Team Champions, Masha Slamovich, this week.

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