Kendal Grey, the new WWE Evolve Women’s Champion spoke with Muscle Man Malcolm for an interview, during which she addressed being compared to Kurt Angle due to their respective amateur wrestling backgrounds.
The following are some of the highlights.
On comparisons to Kurt Angle due to her amateur wrestling background: “Well, I definitely don’t have a gold medal at the Olympics, I’ll tell you that. I think for me, I think being compared to him — obviously he’s one of the greats, so it is a cool comparison, but I try to just be different. For women’s wrestling in the women’s division, not many people come from an amateur wrestling background, so I would like to bring that into the women’s division. Obviously, women and men, even in amateur wrestling, they wrestle so different. I’m just trying to be different, I hope that I can bring my own personality into it and I don’t know, just be fun with it. I don’t want to be compared to someone or feel like I have to live up to someone’s experience, I just want to have my own experience and have fun.”
On her “I Quit” match with Wendy Choo: “I knew that she was in a path that she didn’t talk, so knew I’m going to have to pull some things out of my bag to her to talk and say I quit. It was fun. That was my first gimmick match, something that I’ve never done before and it made me feel alive. Everything just made me feel so into it. I loved it. I was ready to put down whatever I needed to do to make her say I quit and I knew I wasn’t going to say I quit because I don’t quit at things. So I was like, I’ll be here all day. If it takes 10 hours, I’m going to do it for 10 hours to try and get you to say I Quit.”
Check out the complete interview below. H/T to Fightful.com for transcribing the above quotes.
