http://www.diva-dirt.com/2011/10/13/gail-kim-live-shoot-interview-highlights-why-she-quit-wwe-and-more/a live shoot interview tonight, Gail Kim spoke on record for the first time about why she quit WWE, the Divas division and walking out of a battle royal on Raw in her final appearance.
A few highlights below:
* Gail reveals that the Divas today are told: “You’re getting too physical” and “You’re getting too good”, indicating that they don’t want the women to upstage the male wrestlers.
* Gail says she got the opportunity to be in a documentary about successful Korean people but WWE wouldn’t let her do it.
* Gail says winning Knockouts Title meant more than winning Women’s Title because it wasn’t just handed to her. She says she was part of building the division and that made it more special.
* Low-Ki told her about Awesome Kong (Kharma). When they were talking about who to bring in for the division, Gail said why don’t we bring in Kong — she had never seen her work or even a picture of her but thought she would be unique for the division.
* As far as she knows, she never knew of ideas for her to work with Kharma in WWE in a storyline, but they had plans to have her work Kharma’s first singles match.
* Gail says the plan was for Kharma to feud with Beth Phoenix.
* Gail says the Knockouts never talked about their pay in TNA. Any frustration was between talent and office, not with each other.
* Gail on leaving TNA: She was in contract negotiations, but was having financial issues. She says the pay she was being offered, she couldn’t accept at that time. WWE reached out and offered her more money. She said she spoke to everyone in the TNA office and bawled when she spoke to Jeff Jarrett. She says: “When life takes over, you have to do what you have to do to pay your bills.”
* On re-signing with WWE, Gail says Johnny Ace told her that the creative team was so excited to have her back and had ideas for her. Hmm… really?
* Gail says she was offered a training position in FCW but turned it down because she felt she still had a lot to offer in her career.
* Gail says every week there’d be a new rule for the Divas like “no kicking”, “no punching” etc. “It was so frustrating.” WWE wanted “more girliness” in Divas matches.
* Gail says it’s sad that the Women’s Title was retired. WWE needs two titles for both shows. She says the Divas were sad about it.
* Gail reveals that she had four boob jobs. She says she never felt pressure from WWE to do it and even asked her mom in high school to have breast implants. “No pressure.” Never heard a story about there being pressure.
* Gail says she heard rumors that the Daniel Bryan/Bella Twins storyline ended because the network thought it wasn’t heading in a very PG direction, so she was brought in as his girlfriend to end the storyline. Gail says fans, Vince and Kevin Dunn loved the Gail/Bellas catfight when she was revealed as DB’s girlfriend.
* Gail says she was ready to quit the day that she was revealed as Daniel Bryan’s girlfriend, but prolonged it because she was finally being used.
* Gail says she felt slapped in the face and disrespected by a series of events and doesn’t take back her action of eliminating herself in the Divas battle royal. She recalls one instance when she went out to the ring with Daniel Bryan as his manager, but when she got to ringside, she was told to go to the back. She had just stood in 10 minutes in gorilla position with Vince and others there, however she wasn’t told she wasn’t supposed to go out. Agents told her she was going out. However, when she went out there, she was told to go back. She felt disrespected and spoke to Johnny Ace.
* Gail says she felt frustrated in WWE. She had been approached about re-signing by Johnny Ace but said she definitely wasn’t going to re-sign. She didn’t know how much longer she was going to last. The night of the battle royal came on Raw. She felt that the Divas were treated as a joke but tried to make the best of every situation. She says the battle royal came and they were told, “Everybody has to get out of the ring as fast as possible in the first minute”. She says other things happened that day but won’t reveal what happened. She felt disrespected at that moment and wanted to be disrespectful back, thus eliminating herself. She does admit it was childish. She went to the back & none of the agents or higher-ups noticed that she had eliminated herself. Later on in the night, she quit and told Johnny that he eliminated himself and he laughed! They didn’t notice or care.
* She says when she quit, Johnny Ace offered her the training role in FCW again but she turned it down. She says he wouldn’t let her quit. She said she wanted walk away & offered to give up the money. They told her she has to wait for her contract to run out. They didn’t want her working for any other wrestling companies.
* Gail says she went into the locker room at Raw and announced to the Divas that she had quit. Everyone was shocked and sad.
Gail Kim's first post-WWE interview
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If CM Punk gave this interview everyone would believe every word.
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Maybe because she's mad the WWE didn't care about her or ever use her on live TV? That might be it, just a guess.
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Wow what a dumb broad...
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If she was TRULY mad, then she would have mentioned much deeper details than she did but in the interview, she avoided going into much anticipated details.
My point is that Gail is finally relieved of all the BS threw at her and wanted to make it known as to why she quit. It's a shoot interview after all.
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lol Alica Fox must have been damn confused at Gail just leaving after taking her to the corner.
If I was her I would have made it a lot more lulzy and just ran around the ring doing stupid shit. She did want to get fired after all.
If I was her I would have made it a lot more lulzy and just ran around the ring doing stupid shit. She did want to get fired after all.
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Gail Kim is one of the most amazing women on the planet, I bought her old ring attire off ebay. It smells like match quality 
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WWE probably doesn't put it that bluntly, but I wouldn't be surprised if they suggested those things.
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I'm the only one who probably believes her. I don't care for Divas wrestling but WWE sees them as barbies. So being too physical is something that I see WWE telling the Divas (most likely a marketing technique). All their matches last like 3 minutes and more than half are former models. I also find it funny that most people here would believe dirt sheet rumors instead of an actual wrestler who recently worked with WWE and TNA.
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Yes I believe her. What WWE wants is personified in Kelly Kelly: more cartwheels. more hair pulling. more stinkfaces. more screaming.
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"She does admit it was childish. She went to the back & none of the agents or higher-ups noticed that she had eliminated herself. Later on in the night, she quit and told Johnny that he eliminated himself and he laughed! They didn’t notice or care."
:lmao
I remember half this forum saying that it was very likely nobody backstage noticed or cared. Haha.
I 100% believe her about the comments about "no punching"/"no kicking." Countless personnnel behind the scenes in WWE say the best divas in the ring are Maryse and Kelly Kelly. That is what they want.
:lmao
I remember half this forum saying that it was very likely nobody backstage noticed or cared. Haha.
I 100% believe her about the comments about "no punching"/"no kicking." Countless personnnel behind the scenes in WWE say the best divas in the ring are Maryse and Kelly Kelly. That is what they want.
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I semi believe and dont believe her, to the extent that what we already know, the Diva division sucks and no one in the WE puts any effort to make it good.
We all know this, personally I want to one day see a diva match in my top 5 WWE matches one year...
We all know this, personally I want to one day see a diva match in my top 5 WWE matches one year...
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*reads interview* ... *looks at replies calling her 'bitter and lying'* ..... *recalls how the divas of doom are booked* People that are calling her a liar are stupid. And just by LOOKING at matches you can see her comments ring true. And I mean every diva match I recall aside from Kharma for over a year. Nope, you people are whiny wwe loyalists. I thought only TNA had people that deluded.
Guess K2 is putting dat work in.
Guess K2 is putting dat work in.
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I believe every word she said. Why shouldn't I? She has no reason to lie about anything.
She has way more credibility than the people in this thread doubting her, considering that she was actually there!
But since most people here actually know the real story and know what WWE tells their divas, then give us some details!
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I couldn't believe the "no punching" "no kicking" line. Then I remembered how shitty the women's division is atm. I gave up on the women's division after Kelly Kelly one at the 2nd PPV.
I don't care that Beth is the champ now, or the fact she can wrestle. She is doing nothing but facing Kelly Kelly which makes the match terrible. Until Beth competes with Kong, when I hear "holla holla" I will go to the bathroom and take a 2-3 minute shit.
I think what Gail did was completely unprofessional, but as she said. Nobody noticed or even cared. She could have at least made it noticeabe. That may have gotten her some more attention from the back, hell maybe she would even be champion right now.
I don't care that Beth is the champ now, or the fact she can wrestle. She is doing nothing but facing Kelly Kelly which makes the match terrible. Until Beth competes with Kong, when I hear "holla holla" I will go to the bathroom and take a 2-3 minute shit.
I think what Gail did was completely unprofessional, but as she said. Nobody noticed or even cared. She could have at least made it noticeabe. That may have gotten her some more attention from the back, hell maybe she would even be champion right now.
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She's obviously been hanging out with Alex Riley a little too much
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I love this forum sometimes. A girl says something negative about the company and she's a 'dumb bitch' and a liar. Women issues galore! Ahhh, never change.
I knew it was bad for the girls, but I never realized it was THIS bad. Not allowed to progress in the ring, not allowed to actually wrestle, not allowed to be good. It's sad, it's unfair and it's a bunch of crap. They have girls on that roster athletic enough to become great and they have girls on that roster who are already great. Why does "upstaging the guys" matter so much? Are they really that backwards and juvenile in their thinking? And hey, if that's such a problem, why not, I don't know, fill your roster with amazing male wrestlers instead of bodybuilders and football players?
The more I think about it, the more I see the "But Hunter... we're GIRLS!" thing as a way to make sure we all know that no matter how strong and talented Beth and Nattie are, they'll never be anything more than just a couple of chicks. The Divas of Doom thing is a crock of shit, seriously. I hope one day, the way the girls are treated comes back to bite the WWE on their ass somehow. :lmao Be A Star. Yeah right.
Good for Gail for walking out. They don't care, why should she?
I knew it was bad for the girls, but I never realized it was THIS bad. Not allowed to progress in the ring, not allowed to actually wrestle, not allowed to be good. It's sad, it's unfair and it's a bunch of crap. They have girls on that roster athletic enough to become great and they have girls on that roster who are already great. Why does "upstaging the guys" matter so much? Are they really that backwards and juvenile in their thinking? And hey, if that's such a problem, why not, I don't know, fill your roster with amazing male wrestlers instead of bodybuilders and football players?
The more I think about it, the more I see the "But Hunter... we're GIRLS!" thing as a way to make sure we all know that no matter how strong and talented Beth and Nattie are, they'll never be anything more than just a couple of chicks. The Divas of Doom thing is a crock of shit, seriously. I hope one day, the way the girls are treated comes back to bite the WWE on their ass somehow. :lmao Be A Star. Yeah right.
Good for Gail for walking out. They don't care, why should she?
How does that not make sense to you? Low Ki told her about Kong when the Knockout's Division was starting up and at the time she knew nothing about her. She then suggested that TNA bring her in and the rest is history. Rocket science!
:lmao I know right?
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