Ash By Elegance, former WWE star Dana Brooke, appeared on Busted Open Radio to talk about her TNA debut. She sat at ringside during the Knockouts World Championship match but not much was said about her future plans.
On what the Ash by Elegance character is about:
She said, "Ash by Elegance is a different side of me, but I try to live my life every single day as being super elegant. Elegant is a word, but I feel like it has a variety and many multiple meanings. It's classiness. It's elegant. It's beautiful. It just means so much that I'm definitely gonna bring that element into the ring and show everyone what class and elegance truly means."
On if she is officially part of TNA:
"What I will say is definitely keep your eye out and do not miss an episode of TNA wrestling going forward."
On why she feels WWE released her:
“I honestly think they (WWE) didn’t believe in me. You know, producers, T.J. (Wilson) was a very big advocate for me and he would always be like, ‘Dana can do it, Dana can do it, Dana can do it’ and it just, it wasn’t happening and I wasn’t that girl. I wasn’t the girl that they were trying to push to that next level. I was the one that I was always given to take the pin fall and I was okay with it, thinking in my mind, there’s gonna be a shot. There’s gonna be that next time and there just never was that next time. I fought so hard. I’ll never forget this and I think it was 2018 or ‘19 in the Money in the Bank match where I wanted to hang from the briefcase and swing from it and fall and a pile of girls catch me and they’re like, ‘No, no, no. That’s a little too dangerous.’ I’m like, ‘Do you not know I was in gymnastics for 18 years and the bars are this high. I would do double backflips and layoffs out from underneath the bars. I promise you, I’m okay. Just let me do it. It will be a wow factor’ and I just don’t think that they had the confidence in me.”
On speaking with Trinity and Mickie James about going to TNA:
"Trinity was a co-worker of mine back in WWE and I love the progression she had made. She was actually one of the girls I had spoken with. before making an appearance on TNA and she's like, 'Girl, this is the place for you. You have so much untapped potential that TNA will be able to bring it out in you.' Another person that I had spoken with was Mickie James and Mickie was like, 'This is the place. You have so much potential and TNA is gonna bring it out of you and you have a locker room of badass women to perform with”
If you use any portion of the quotes from this article please credit Busted Open Radio with a h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription. Quotes were transcribed by Jim for WrestlingNews.co.
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