Vicious Vicki has been a rising talent on the women’s wrestling scene, performing for Awesome Championship Wrestling (ACW) among other places over the last year.
While Vicki has been in the ACW women’s title picture, she recently was put into the tournament to crown the first ever Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) Knockouts TV champion. TNA introduced the belt at Slammiversary, and she was one of the independent talents who were selected to participate.
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She explained to Fox News Digital how she was able to get into the tournament after eventually losing to Indi Hartwell.
"I had a really great, still have a really great, relationship with Tommy Dreamer and a lot of the opportunities that I had had in TNA had come from him, and he made me earn them like I should have," Vicki said. "I do believe that he had some sort of part in that. But it was a road in TNA for me to, about three or four years ago, getting opportunities and just kind of taking the smaller ones, taking the smaller ones, taking the smaller ones, and then this was probably my first real, like my big match where I was able to kind of showcase myself a little more, which is awesome.
"No matter what happens, being able to be a part of history of TNA as an unsigned talent, … there was only two independent women's wrestlers in the entire world in that tournament mixed in with some WWE people. So that, to me, says a lot for me, and Gabby Forza was the other one. I feel like it says a lot that the work that we had put in over the years really paid off. So, no matter what happens, I can say that I was a part of TNA history and that can't be erased."
While TNA has received sharp criticism from fans wanting to predict that the death of the company is coming, Vicki suggested that couldn’t be further from the truth.
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Vicki spoke to TNA’s resilience and being able to battle through the ebbs and the flows that come with any part of the pro wrestling industry.
"I think people just like to point the finger at everyone but themselves in life," she told Fox News Digital. "So, I just think a lot of companies, they flounder every now and then. It just happens, where there's highs, there's lows, there's highs, there's lows. It's just how it is. It's how wrestling is. It's been like that since the beginning of time.
"I think TNA will survive and they have survived much worse. So, I think right now, for me personally, that's where I want to be. Obviously, I would love to be walking down the ramp at WrestleMania, but you have to think realistically, and I think that's a great spot for me. I think they are doing great things. I think TNA is the spot. I do."
TNA airs "Impact" every Thursday night at 9 p.m. ET on AMC.
