GAIL KIM

I am grateful to have been in this business for 16 years, which not a lot of women can say they have been fortunate to do that kind of run that many years in a row.

My honest opinion, and this is only my opinion and I don't know this as fact, I just think Vince McMahon did not like women's wrestling.

I didn't know the colors of my wedding or what my bouquet would look like!

I've always had a lot of pressure on myself, but I'm not going to lie, I feel a lot of pressure to give the fans everything they expect plus more.

WWE is basically scooping up all the talent and making it really difficult. They say they want competition and like competition, but I don't believe that. They are trying to make this a monopoly.

Oh my gosh, women have it so much harder than men. If you ask me the differences are professional as well as physical.

I consider myself more of a wrestler than a sports entertainer.

To have the title has always been special to me, and I would love to win the championship.

Normally, with girls that I know in the business, they start off managing and then they become a wrestler, or they just stay as a manager who can wrestle, but I was always a wrestler.

For me, if I had a magical match that I was so proud of, and I had to work the same person after that again, it was always about topping that last thing and being the best.

To have the appreciation from your peers, the fans and the company you work for is the ultimate reward. For me, that has always been ultimate because respect has always been the most important thing to me in this business.

I heard many times that they want the Divas to be girly. They didn't care about the heel girls getting any heat. We just didn't understand. They did everything in their power, it seemed, to take everything to give us a good match, for the heels to get any heat. It was no kicking one week, or no punching the next. No this, no that.

In high school, I played basketball, volleyball, soccer, baseball, badminton - two sports every season - and I was named female athlete of the year twice.

I really didn't know how to eat until I studied nutrition in my second year of college.

But that's my point on intergender wrestling - I don't like to see things where a man is going to punch a woman. I just think about the kids that are watching. I take that into consideration.

The WWE is the big company and the one the mainstream audience is watching, but I feel like if you were a hardcore wrestling fan, you were watching TNA.

I've noticed a huge difference in my energy level cutting out the red meat. It's crazy.

It's so frustrating to be working so hard and know that it's not going anywhere and it doesn't matter.

I just want everyone to remember me as a great wrestler, that's what I aim to do.

Tessa Blanchard is a premium athlete and you can't take that away from her.

Impact has always been a great place for camaraderie and feeling like a family.

I'm the only female producer on Impact, and they're very supportive, the men.

We always tell everyone that women's wrestling has always been told through the lens of a man because it's a male-dominated industry. It's never been told through the lens of a woman and we want to be able to tell that story.

I watched wrestling as a kid when I was younger, and then I kind of fell out of it, and then I started watching it again around my early 20s.

I would miss the action if I ever stepped away from wrestling.