DAWN MARIE SHOOTS ON NOT GOING TO TNA, NEW DIVAS
- 05/14/2008 (12:47:38 pm)
- Press Release
WWE, ECW & MORE
Show: The Interactive Interview courtesy of www.WrestlingEpicenter.comGuest: Former WWE/ECW Diva Dawn Marie
Date: 5/14/08
Your Hosts: Patrick Kelley & James Walsh
Special Contributor: Nick "Griffin" Noel
Transcript By: Patrick Kelley
Dawn Marie first emerged on the scene as the sexy side-kick of Lance Storm in the infamous, at the time, blue dress. From the ditsy side kick to the top of the WWE, Dawn Marie did it all and she did it all her way. This week, we sit down with the incomparable diva and do a very revealing interview that all of her fans should listen to!
We sincerely enjoyed doing this interview. And, we sincerely hope you guys will enjoy it. It is entertaining, educational, and really gives you a new respect for the brain that is inside the body of one of the hottest divas of all time.
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Dawn Marie:
Dawn Marie
- The interview begins with Dawn talking about being a mother and she says that she loves it and says “It’s her greatest success”
- She’s back with the Indy’s and she’s having fun with it. She says she’s tough on the new girls because they need to learn the ropes a little bit. She says that it isn’t their fault, but more the fault of the people hiring them. Dawn refers to them as “8X10 girls” because they basically get hired as models and learn what to do on the job.
- Dawn says that the scene is very different now. She says that there is a lack of respect for the veterans and its too easy to get to the top. When talking about her own experience as a valet, Dawn says that she wasn’t even allowed to step into the ring. It was Buddy Landell who told her that she needed to earn the right to be in the ring, and she is thankful for that experience because it taught her respect for wrestling.
- When she came to ECW, she was asked to go there after she had paid her dues, but when she was in the WWE, she saw guys coming to shows asking for a tryout match. This goes into what Al Snow said when he stated that it is way too easy to get into wrestling.
- Dawn says the business is tarnished and she feels bad for the veterans that made wrestling the success that it was. The respect in wrestling diminished. She hopes it will get better, but she’s doubtful.
- When asked about her first role with ECW, she says that it was supposed to be a one shot deal, but the plan was for Terri Runnels to be brought in to feud with Tammy. Terri ended up going back to WWF, and Dawn was asked to come back. She then gives another example of how she was forced to pay her dues as Bubba Ray was a little rough on her when she asked about a plane ticket. Once again, she points out that at the time she thought he was being mean, but she learned how to respect wrestling because of it.
- When she was with ECW, she ran a Real Estate business while on the road and continues to do so today. She says that Paul Heyman took very good care of her, and she worked very hard.
- James then jokingly brings up the rumors that Kurt Angle was the father of her baby. When talking about the possibility of her going to TNA, she believes that past rumors might be the reason that they never brought her in. When addressing the rumors of her being approached by Wrestling Society X, she says that they never did.
- She says that she doesn’t do the Indy scene to support herself, but to do it because she loves doing it.
- Dawn then talks about a recent conversation she had with Simon Diamond where they discussed the lack of respect in wrestling among the young talents and she says that it is necessary to educate them, but also says that she wouldn’t want to be harsh with it. The Hardcore Holly incident of a few years back is then referenced.
- James then asks her about the downfall of WCW and ECW and she says that once that happened she felt that she needed to get to the top with the WWE. She learned how to wrestle which she felt was the best way to get a job there. She felt that she wasn’t the best wrestler, but also felt that her work as a manager helped her hide any short comings she had.
- She then mentions the cycle of women in wrestling where they go through periods where they are all valets, and then become wrestles, and sometimes mixing it up. She’s been through all the cycles and felt that she needed to adjust.
- When talking about the famous angle Torrie Wilson in the hotel room, she says that she never had a problem with it and was only doing what she was asked to do. And she also said that it made sense within the storyline. She also says that the stuff she did in the WWE was a nice change of pace from what she had done in ECW.
- She says that hardest part of wrestling is staying fresh and finding ways to stay entertaining.
- Dawn is then asked about love triangle she did with Jackie Gayda & Charlie Haas which wasn’t the greatest angle in the world. She says that it’s the wrestlers jobs to try and make any storyline work, and she says that its not really the writers’ fault as they have never been involved in wrestling before. She says for other things in media, they would work, but the stories “don’t make wrestling sense” and the writers are doing the best that they can.
- She gets frustrated with old stars constantly being brought back and not creating new ones. She says they can do a trial and error thing with the new guys to try and do new things. The problem is that the old stars don’t work enough with new stars.
- Dawn says that she is currently writing book and has been for years. She wants her book to be about what it is like to be a woman in wrestling and to talk about the things she did right and wrong.
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