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During the most recent episode of Insight with Chris Van Vliet, former WWE star Nikki Cross (Storm), spoke on getting released from WWE, acquiring Progress Wrestling and being the last WWE 24/7 Champion.
Getting released from WWE was unexpected:
“It was unexpected. For every character I’ve played. Whether it be Sanity, whether it be Nikki A.S.H., even Nikki Storm when I said goodbye to her in 2016 before I joined WWE and Abby the Witch, I always feel attached to the characters, so it’s always difficult to say goodbye. With WWE, I was there for 10 years. I got to travel the world. I got to make amazing friends, make these incredible friendships with people like Sarah Schreiber, with people like Giulia, and I get to take them forever. With WWE, I was there for 10 years, so it’s always hard to say goodbye to such a substantial, significant chapter in your life. That being said, I’m so excited for my next chapter, and I’m so excited for what’s next for myself, and I can’t wait to go out to the world and go out to the galaxy. It was unexpected, and it’s always hard to say goodbye to a character in people that you become so bonded with. Myself and Dexter and Joe Gacy, Bo Dallas and Erick Rowan, we’ve shared something that I don’t know if anyone will ever be able to relate to: the five of us sharing this experience. So it’s always hard to say goodbye, but I think I don’t ever want to be stuck in the past. It was a great 10 years, but I’m also excited for the next 10 years.”
On acquiring Progress Wrestling with her husband Big Damo (Killian Dain):
“Yes, it’s been a crazy couple of months. It’s been insane the last couple of months. It was just perfect timing. I don’t know if it would have still happened if I was still with WWE, so it just felt like perfect timing, the right place, the right time, the right circumstances with Progress Wrestling. Our goal is to make Progress Wrestling the number one independent promotion in the world, and we’ve got a long way to go. But that’s the mission, that’s the goal, that’s our aim. We want to take young talent and give them opportunities, and push them, and give them a platform. In Europe right now, it’s a hotbed. So the talent is there and just waiting to be tapped into, and that’s what we want to do with Progress Wrestling. We want the style to be aggressive and intense, but we also want the three-ring circus. So we want our stories to be involved. We have such funny, wonderful characters, funny wrestlers at Progress. So we want there to still be space for them, but we really want that three-ring circus and really push that aggressive, intense ring style and become the number one company. Even with the women’s wrestling, it’s such a hotbed right now in Britain, and not only do I get to work with these girls in the ring. I also can’t wait to work with them for Progress and make it a hotbed because it is a hotbed. Progress Wrestling, we want to be at the forefront of that, and we want to work with all the companies we can. We want to cross-promote. We want good relationships worldwide. Whether that be in Japan, America, Canada, Europe, other places in England, in Scotland, in Ireland, like we want it all covered, and if we can do it. We’re excited for this next step.”
On if they are going to still be based in Florida:
“I think there’ll be a lot of back and forth. We also have our home in Scotland. There’ll be a lot of flights, a lot of miles racked up, and I couldn’t be happier. I’ve been so fortunate in life, and I’m just excited to kind of see the world. I already feel like I saw so much of the world before even joining WWE, and then I was lucky enough to be in WWE and travel the world. I got to go to Australia for the first time. I was able to be lucky enough to travel with some of my best friends, and now I get to see the world through a completely different lens. This isn’t the same 23-year-old girl traveling the world, not quite knowing what’s going on. Now I get to be older and wiser, and get to see places which I never thought I would, and it’s all because of professional wrestling, you know. And I just, I’m so grateful.”
On being the last WWE 24/7 Champion and miss the garbage can when throwing the title away:
“Yeah, I missed it. So we did a take right before it, and it was perfect, nailed it, landed inside the trash can. A rehearsal, but we taped it.”
Having to go live with the segment due to issues with the taped segment:
“We had to go live, but I don’t know what it was. I think there was an audio [issue]. There was something that meant we couldn’t use that tape. So we had to go live. Then in the moment, I was so into the character. I was looking at the ceiling. I was envisioning emptiness and nothingness. I was so focused on being in the daze. I was just so into it that I just threw it. I just threw it, and it missed the trash can. I just kept going with it. Because in those scenarios, there is nothing you can do. You cannot, unless you’re actually a superhero like Doctor Strange, you can’t change time. I didn’t have a time stone on me, so I couldn’t change time. So I was like, I know I’ve missed this, do not, whatever you do, break character- the cardinal sin. I truly believe everything happens for a reason. So I honestly think the reason I missed that was to leave the door open down the line for someone else to be the 24/7 Champion. It was a funny moment. It was still the idea of that character was just about the chaos and the championship. In that moment, her focus was the chaos, so she didn’t really mind what happened at the championship. That’s how I can twist it in my head. But also, I do think that everything happens for a reason. And at the end of the day, maybe it just wasn’t meant to be. We’ve had a moment in wrestling history where there’s been a title thrown in a trash can, so this is the new moment. The title being almost in the trash can for almost a superhero. So to me, we’ve left the door open for someone else to be the 24/7 Champion. Because what I do want to say about the 24/7 championship is, you know, people like R-Truth, Tozawa, Dana Brooke, Tamina, Reggie. We had the 24/7 wedding. I had the Blue Fascinator. People worked really hard on making the 24/7 championship the most entertaining thing it could be on TV.”
On why she was told to toss the title in the trash:
“I think they wanted to move away from that championship. So this was their way of doing it.”
All quotes are courtesy of Insight with Chris Van Vliet.
Also during the interview, Nikki talks on the Nikki A.S.H. character, Wyatt Sicks and more!
You can watch the full interview below.
The post Nikki Cross talks on getting released, acquiring Progress Wrestling, being the last WWE 24/7 Champion appeared first on WWE News, WWE Results, AEW News, AEW Results.
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Getting released from WWE was unexpected:
“It was unexpected. For every character I’ve played. Whether it be Sanity, whether it be Nikki A.S.H., even Nikki Storm when I said goodbye to her in 2016 before I joined WWE and Abby the Witch, I always feel attached to the characters, so it’s always difficult to say goodbye. With WWE, I was there for 10 years. I got to travel the world. I got to make amazing friends, make these incredible friendships with people like Sarah Schreiber, with people like Giulia, and I get to take them forever. With WWE, I was there for 10 years, so it’s always hard to say goodbye to such a substantial, significant chapter in your life. That being said, I’m so excited for my next chapter, and I’m so excited for what’s next for myself, and I can’t wait to go out to the world and go out to the galaxy. It was unexpected, and it’s always hard to say goodbye to a character in people that you become so bonded with. Myself and Dexter and Joe Gacy, Bo Dallas and Erick Rowan, we’ve shared something that I don’t know if anyone will ever be able to relate to: the five of us sharing this experience. So it’s always hard to say goodbye, but I think I don’t ever want to be stuck in the past. It was a great 10 years, but I’m also excited for the next 10 years.”
On acquiring Progress Wrestling with her husband Big Damo (Killian Dain):
“Yes, it’s been a crazy couple of months. It’s been insane the last couple of months. It was just perfect timing. I don’t know if it would have still happened if I was still with WWE, so it just felt like perfect timing, the right place, the right time, the right circumstances with Progress Wrestling. Our goal is to make Progress Wrestling the number one independent promotion in the world, and we’ve got a long way to go. But that’s the mission, that’s the goal, that’s our aim. We want to take young talent and give them opportunities, and push them, and give them a platform. In Europe right now, it’s a hotbed. So the talent is there and just waiting to be tapped into, and that’s what we want to do with Progress Wrestling. We want the style to be aggressive and intense, but we also want the three-ring circus. So we want our stories to be involved. We have such funny, wonderful characters, funny wrestlers at Progress. So we want there to still be space for them, but we really want that three-ring circus and really push that aggressive, intense ring style and become the number one company. Even with the women’s wrestling, it’s such a hotbed right now in Britain, and not only do I get to work with these girls in the ring. I also can’t wait to work with them for Progress and make it a hotbed because it is a hotbed. Progress Wrestling, we want to be at the forefront of that, and we want to work with all the companies we can. We want to cross-promote. We want good relationships worldwide. Whether that be in Japan, America, Canada, Europe, other places in England, in Scotland, in Ireland, like we want it all covered, and if we can do it. We’re excited for this next step.”
On if they are going to still be based in Florida:
“I think there’ll be a lot of back and forth. We also have our home in Scotland. There’ll be a lot of flights, a lot of miles racked up, and I couldn’t be happier. I’ve been so fortunate in life, and I’m just excited to kind of see the world. I already feel like I saw so much of the world before even joining WWE, and then I was lucky enough to be in WWE and travel the world. I got to go to Australia for the first time. I was able to be lucky enough to travel with some of my best friends, and now I get to see the world through a completely different lens. This isn’t the same 23-year-old girl traveling the world, not quite knowing what’s going on. Now I get to be older and wiser, and get to see places which I never thought I would, and it’s all because of professional wrestling, you know. And I just, I’m so grateful.”
On being the last WWE 24/7 Champion and miss the garbage can when throwing the title away:
“Yeah, I missed it. So we did a take right before it, and it was perfect, nailed it, landed inside the trash can. A rehearsal, but we taped it.”
Having to go live with the segment due to issues with the taped segment:
“We had to go live, but I don’t know what it was. I think there was an audio [issue]. There was something that meant we couldn’t use that tape. So we had to go live. Then in the moment, I was so into the character. I was looking at the ceiling. I was envisioning emptiness and nothingness. I was so focused on being in the daze. I was just so into it that I just threw it. I just threw it, and it missed the trash can. I just kept going with it. Because in those scenarios, there is nothing you can do. You cannot, unless you’re actually a superhero like Doctor Strange, you can’t change time. I didn’t have a time stone on me, so I couldn’t change time. So I was like, I know I’ve missed this, do not, whatever you do, break character- the cardinal sin. I truly believe everything happens for a reason. So I honestly think the reason I missed that was to leave the door open down the line for someone else to be the 24/7 Champion. It was a funny moment. It was still the idea of that character was just about the chaos and the championship. In that moment, her focus was the chaos, so she didn’t really mind what happened at the championship. That’s how I can twist it in my head. But also, I do think that everything happens for a reason. And at the end of the day, maybe it just wasn’t meant to be. We’ve had a moment in wrestling history where there’s been a title thrown in a trash can, so this is the new moment. The title being almost in the trash can for almost a superhero. So to me, we’ve left the door open for someone else to be the 24/7 Champion. Because what I do want to say about the 24/7 championship is, you know, people like R-Truth, Tozawa, Dana Brooke, Tamina, Reggie. We had the 24/7 wedding. I had the Blue Fascinator. People worked really hard on making the 24/7 championship the most entertaining thing it could be on TV.”
On why she was told to toss the title in the trash:
“I think they wanted to move away from that championship. So this was their way of doing it.”
All quotes are courtesy of Insight with Chris Van Vliet.
Also during the interview, Nikki talks on the Nikki A.S.H. character, Wyatt Sicks and more!
You can watch the full interview below.
The post Nikki Cross talks on getting released, acquiring Progress Wrestling, being the last WWE 24/7 Champion appeared first on WWE News, WWE Results, AEW News, AEW Results.
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