IMPACT Wrestling Star and pro wrestling veteran Maria Kanellis recently appeared on an episode of the Fightful podcast to talk about a variety of topics such as how she has no plans of ever competing for her own Women’s Wrestling Army promotion, but that if the situation requires it and she will be asked by Netflix or the USA Network to have one match, then she will as long as it is for a sponsorship and everybody gets a fantastic payday.
Maria Kanellis said:
“No. There is this problem that happens when somebody who is on TV is also in a position of power. It should never be a competition. For me, that doesn’t work. I can’t give my entire focus to a company if I’m trying to get my shit over [laughs]. If it’s got to be about me, it’s got to be about me. I will not half-ass it. If I were to get into that mind space, there would have to be something that happened. ‘Oh, you’re going to go to USA Network, they really want you to have a match.’ If Netflix says, ‘We love your show, we want it on Netflix, we really want Maria to have a match.’ Okay, I will have a match. A sponsorship comes along and everybody gets a fantastic payday, fine, I’ll put myself in there, one match. I don’t have any desire. I was done at WrestleMania. I walked out and thought, ‘I’m done, I don’t want to be here.’ I want to be here producing and with my husband, I don’t want to be wrestling.”
Maria Kanellis also talked about how she is interested in working with Joshi promotions, but with the COVID-19 pandemic still present it is making things a little hard for them.
Maria Kanellis said:
“Yes. We do. With COVID, it’s still a little hard, but yes, we do. Some of the girls we work with right now have connections with people so they’ll send over a group and they’ll work around the country. We’re trying to be able to do that as well.”
You can check out Maria Kanellis' full comments in the video below. H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes.
