Former WWE star and TNA Knockouts Champion Katie Lea was recently a guest on the Pancakes and Powerslams show. You can check out the highlights here:
On who gave her the opportunity to get into WWE:
“I’d actually gone to a tryout. [WWE] had these open tryouts at the time. So I’d gone to that, and I didn’t hear anything. Then I met Tommy Dreamer on an independent show, and he told me if you came back over , give me a call and I’ll get you booked and a tryout. And [eventually] he hired me”
On why her Katie Lea Burchill gimmick was scrapped:
“They wanted to do the incest thing, but they wanted to treat it with respect and make it a good storyline rather than just throw it out there because I was going to get some slack anyway, which in the end, unfortunately they had to pull it because of the PG.”
On who invented her angles as Winter in TNA:
“That was Vince Russo’s idea entirely. I did have a couple of meetings where I sat down and threw some ideas around. He was always very open and receptive. He would take what he liked and write the storyline. Essentially, that was Russo’s idea, and that was his storyline. I’ll always be grateful for that.”
On leaving TNA:
“I was told nothing. I was not even told one thing. My contract was up, and they just stopped flying me in, and that was the end to that.”
(All transcribed quotes courtesy of Wrestling Inc.)
