Mickie James is a veteran of the Influence Wrestling Knockouts division, and she or he’s been a part of it throughout numerous eras within the promotion. In a latest interview with WrestlingNewsCo, the previous WWE Famous person defined why the division has at all times been high quality, and she or he highlighted a number of the pioneers who put it on the map.

“The Knockouts division has at all times been particular. It was at all times particular as a result of it was a motion, it was actually a motion… Lots of people do not actually throw a whole lot of credit score again to The Lovely Individuals, who have been a large catalyst in getting the ladies extra time on tv. As a result of the rankings have been so excessive, they’d then go like, ‘Properly, the ladies want two segments.”

James credited Gail Kim and Superior Kong as wrestlers who helped put Influence Wrestling’s Knockouts division on the map. Moreover, all of those wrestlers and personalities mixed introduced each expertise and variation to the division. James described the Lovely Individuals, aka Velvet Sky and Angelina Love, because the attractive varieties who might nonetheless kick butt within the ring. Kim, in the meantime, introduced a way of seriousness to the division, and Kong was an anomaly who stood out as distinctive in girls’s wrestling as an entire.

James additionally believes that Influence Wrestling has at all times been open to giving alternatives to the Knockouts. She recalled being the primary girl to carry out in a Clockwork Home of Enjoyable match and be a part of segments with Jeff Jarrett and different high stars. In accordance with James, the Knockouts obtained to do issues that weren’t taking place in the course of the Divas period in WWE, which began to achieve traction across the similar time the Knockouts division was taking off.

In fact, James can be a fan of the present period of Knockouts. Following her return at Influence 1000, she revealed that she needs to face Trinity for the Influence Wrestling Knockouts Championship.