Post by LtD73 on Jun 2, 2009 15:47:02 GMT -5
DaVe Lipp of ShortandSweetNYC.com recently conducted an interview with TNA Knockout Christy Hemme. Here is the interview in its entirety:
THE INTERVIEW: Christy Hemme
Christy Hemme has been many things: a model, a Juggy Dancer on The Man Show, a Playboy Playmate, a wrestling Diva in the WWE and a Knockout in TNA and she even makes time to visit the troops in Afghanistan. Now you can add musician into the mix as her band Hemme recently dropped their first EP Where Are You and has a full length album coming out next year. I had the chance to sit down and talk to Christy about her recent wrestling neck injury, music, and more.
First off, how is your neck doing and how did the injury happen exactly?
Neck is feeling great. I haven’t wrestled since November and I just got back in the ring a few weeks ago and I don’t feel it at all. No numbness in the arms, nothing. It was just an accumulation over time. I was just running myself too hard. I honestly felt it and I was getting numbness in my arms four months before I actually got my MRI. They told me, no, you cannot wrestle right now, so I already knew what was going on.
Are you planning on returning to the ring after it heals?
Well I go get my second MRI this week and I go into TNA at the end of this month to start talking about things.
Of all the Diva’s and Knockouts in the WWE and TNA, who have you enjoyed working with the most and why?
Definitely Gail Kim and Tracie Brooks. The three of us toured a lot together and they really took me under their wings and they’re so knowledgeable of the business and just wrestling in general. They really helped me a lot and we formed a really great bond. There’s nothing like being in the ring with someone you have chemistry with.
Were you sad to see Gail Kim go back to the WWE?
Yes I was really sad but am really happy for her. I’m sad because selfishly I want her to be near me but she deserves everything. I would have to say that she is my number one female wrestler of all time.
What's the biggest difference you’ve found between working in the WWE and TNA?
The biggest difference is the people you’re working around and the synergy between them. In WWE everyone is pretty much an independent contractor. Everybody is really working for that spot and the company really pushes people to be afraid of losing their spot and to push for that spot which means you have to stab people in the back along the way. In TNA there’s really no difference between office and crew and wrestlers. Everybody is synergistically working together for a common goal and that’s to make the company bigger and better. There’s not a huge turnover in TNA. A lot of people have been there since the beginning. It’s just a good company to work for.
If you could work with anyone in the wrestling industry next, who would it be and why?
I would like to face Awesome Kong again. My last match with her was my favorite match of my career and getting back in the ring and working with her again would be cool, even though it really hurts. I just liked it. There was that big man little man thing going on and it’s just cool. Like you can tell that the audience was so into it.
Awesome Kong and Doug Williams will be appearing for Real Deal Promotions in Hull, England on 7/5.
As noted earlier on Jeremy Borash's Twitter account (http://twitter.com/jeremyborash), Alex Shelley, Abyss and Consequences Creed all went home from TNA's live event tour after coming down with the flu. In a correction, they were not "sent home."
TNA has five live events scheduled out west this week in Idaho, Washington and British Columbia. On TNA's official Twitter account (http://www.twitter.com/tnaonline), Jeremy Borash will be providing nightly live coverage with results and exclusive ringside photos.
TNAWrestlingnews.com
THE INTERVIEW: Christy Hemme
Christy Hemme has been many things: a model, a Juggy Dancer on The Man Show, a Playboy Playmate, a wrestling Diva in the WWE and a Knockout in TNA and she even makes time to visit the troops in Afghanistan. Now you can add musician into the mix as her band Hemme recently dropped their first EP Where Are You and has a full length album coming out next year. I had the chance to sit down and talk to Christy about her recent wrestling neck injury, music, and more.
First off, how is your neck doing and how did the injury happen exactly?
Neck is feeling great. I haven’t wrestled since November and I just got back in the ring a few weeks ago and I don’t feel it at all. No numbness in the arms, nothing. It was just an accumulation over time. I was just running myself too hard. I honestly felt it and I was getting numbness in my arms four months before I actually got my MRI. They told me, no, you cannot wrestle right now, so I already knew what was going on.
Are you planning on returning to the ring after it heals?
Well I go get my second MRI this week and I go into TNA at the end of this month to start talking about things.
Of all the Diva’s and Knockouts in the WWE and TNA, who have you enjoyed working with the most and why?
Definitely Gail Kim and Tracie Brooks. The three of us toured a lot together and they really took me under their wings and they’re so knowledgeable of the business and just wrestling in general. They really helped me a lot and we formed a really great bond. There’s nothing like being in the ring with someone you have chemistry with.
Were you sad to see Gail Kim go back to the WWE?
Yes I was really sad but am really happy for her. I’m sad because selfishly I want her to be near me but she deserves everything. I would have to say that she is my number one female wrestler of all time.
What's the biggest difference you’ve found between working in the WWE and TNA?
The biggest difference is the people you’re working around and the synergy between them. In WWE everyone is pretty much an independent contractor. Everybody is really working for that spot and the company really pushes people to be afraid of losing their spot and to push for that spot which means you have to stab people in the back along the way. In TNA there’s really no difference between office and crew and wrestlers. Everybody is synergistically working together for a common goal and that’s to make the company bigger and better. There’s not a huge turnover in TNA. A lot of people have been there since the beginning. It’s just a good company to work for.
If you could work with anyone in the wrestling industry next, who would it be and why?
I would like to face Awesome Kong again. My last match with her was my favorite match of my career and getting back in the ring and working with her again would be cool, even though it really hurts. I just liked it. There was that big man little man thing going on and it’s just cool. Like you can tell that the audience was so into it.
Awesome Kong and Doug Williams will be appearing for Real Deal Promotions in Hull, England on 7/5.
As noted earlier on Jeremy Borash's Twitter account (http://twitter.com/jeremyborash), Alex Shelley, Abyss and Consequences Creed all went home from TNA's live event tour after coming down with the flu. In a correction, they were not "sent home."
TNA has five live events scheduled out west this week in Idaho, Washington and British Columbia. On TNA's official Twitter account (http://www.twitter.com/tnaonline), Jeremy Borash will be providing nightly live coverage with results and exclusive ringside photos.
TNAWrestlingnews.com
