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IVELISSE TALKS ABOUT HER WWE TRY OUT:
It was awesome! It brought me a little back to “Tough Enough” because boy they wanna definitely push you to your limit and it was great experience too in the sense that…. It’s all about teamwork too. Like it is not like just in ring stuff too. I really liked and enjoyed how they focused on wanting to see people have a good attitude as a team players with other people. That was really cool to experience and particularly the group we had was very very elite stacked particular group even with that... the whole competition thing was there for sure but not to the point that where you would feel uncomfortable or anything like that. We were all very supportive of each other throughout the experience.
IVELISSE SHARES THE DIFFICULT MOMENTS THAT LED HER TO HER WWE TRYOUT:
For quite some time now, I’ve been wanting to cut my Lucha Underground things short for about two in a half years. I’ve been telling them for a while that I’ve been unhappy and I’ve been wanting to cut it short. But throughout that whole thing I broke my ankle which didn’t help matters…. After coming back those two times I tried to give it my all with whatever I had left for Lucha Underground and once that was over, Season 4 was coming to an end and the airing. I went ahead and contacted them in hopes that there was some interest… so then they came about where they changed their mind, once they said they would, and let me go and that’s when the whole fiasco happened and it got so much more complicated…
It still blows my mind, I never in my life thought ever would have imagined that I would be in a situation like that nonetheless the Lucha Underground started out so promising because we were started it straight off so promising with great energy everyone was communicative and trusting and everything and it’s really unfortunate that it just happened that way. Regardless, it’s finally resolved and I jumped on it right away. I feel like to come back home that’s how it feels for me when I stepped in the performance center, hoping I could stay home.
IVELISSE TALKS ABOUT HER RELATIONSHIP WITH LUCHA UNDERGROUND:
I really enjoyed all of the work that I did with Lucha Underground. It was a very big merge from a completely different world to another completely different world of pro wrestling. Even though it’s entertainment it’s still two completely, utterly different systems... The number one is them trying to have a hold over the talent as if they were a wrestling company because they are not a wrestling company. They are a wrestling niche show. To expect that type of exclusivity from a professional wrestler is just unrealistic, completely unrealistic.
It’s just that was really really the number one problem from the very beginning. And we all did what we could, from each side from the wrestlers and their part to try to fix it. It wasn’t really about money - too much of a dark time in between and the places that they were doing partnerships with like TNA, stuff like that, the politics side weren't helping me personally and my situation personally was not working for me.
I had no other options, so I was just completely stuck and being in the dark that long and also just having broken my ankle, and me personally, it didn’t help me at all. It all added up... and another thing too that played a part that I wasn’t 100% on the same page of what I wanted out of my work with Lucha underground with the writers, not knocking the work on their work they did for others, personally for my work we weren’t always on the same page, but regardless we did what we could to find a happy medium. More so than anything it was just down to that there was no way to make up for that, like those long dark times without knowing.
IVELISSE CLEARS THE AIR ABOUT TESSA BLANCHARD:
I’m not surprised there are alot of other things people have told me. It’s just wrestling. I hate that drama, I hate all that stuff that people make stuff up. It drives me crazy. I try hard to stay away from it so it gives them leeway to make more stuff up. I try to stay in my lane and stay focused...
It’s honestly kind of sad. After our last match or our last interaction, actually real, not made up. After that interaction I was actually putting her over from the match and all these things I’ve heard...I didn’t want to deal with that. It sucks. Period. I hate that. It is what it is. It exists in the wrestling world.
IVELISSE SHARES WHAT’S NEXT FOR HER:
I feel like with the WWE tryout it’s definitely moving in the right direction and the direction that I wanted, which makes me really happy. Especially after this year, these three years that have really tested my soul. I feel, like I have no words how happy I feel on how this year is starting off. What’s next right now, honestly I’m not really trying to book myself like crazy, and get all crazy. I really want to take this time to really really organize myself for at least this next month, to really organize myself, for whatever good amount of work that will come from the tryout whether it’s be WWE or whatever that might be, I want to be 100% ready, mentally, physically in every way shape or form….I want to be able to take on this year as the best version of myself that I possibly can be in every aspect.
IVELISSE TALKS ABOUT HER FUTURE DREAM MATCHES AND WHO SHE’S WATCHING:
Like I said, I usually love wrestling whoever is in front of me. Every match is like an utter puzzle for me and I love, love the creative process of figuring out how two characters can unravel within a squared circle. Lately, most of the people that I want to work have been taken to WWE already. Now that I feel like that WWE is expanding, you know, within the UK, and things like that, it’s leaving a lot of space for alot of new talent that I haven't really been able to get a feel for only really been. I’ve only been able to get a feel for it in like the indie’s, some new faces SHINE and Ladies Night Out. Now I’m seeing new faces… I still would want to wrestle Asuka, we would have an insane match, we would mirror each other alot. Kairi Sane, and in the indie’s I’ve seen a few girls with alot of potential…
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