In a recent interview with Rick Ucchino as part of the Bleav In Pro Wrestling podcast, Maria Kanellis-Bennett discussed several topics, including the formation of the Women’s Wrestling Army promotion and her vision for WWA going forward.
“Women’s Wrestling Army is a brand new all women’s wrestling show, it is going to be this very nice mix of documentary-style footage, plus amazing matches within the confines of a ring and there’ll also be backstage interviews, it’s going to be, in a lot of ways, a regular wrestling show other than the documentary footage.
After we found out the news that Ring Of Honor was no longer going to be with Sinclair Broadcasting, several women had asked Bobby Cruise and I to start something. I was very hesitant, I’ve owned an event management company now for about four years and I don’t love it, owning a business is not my favorite thing, I thought I would love it, but I don’t and so, owning a wrestling promotion was not like it wasn’t something I was dying to do. I liked my situation that I had last year, Ring Of Honor went and they set up everything, they had all the pretty lights and the ramp and all of the stuff and I brought the division. Bobby Cruise and I created the team, that was perfect, so I’m very hesitant on the whole thing because it isn’t necessarily where I envisioned myself, but I do have to say the response has been tremendous.
We have individuals from IMPACT Wrestling, AEW and former talent for NXT, so we have a lot of big names on the show thus far. I want to dive into it further, for me, my big vision is a tournament of Champions, make it so you have to have a title in order to enter and your title will be your ticket to enter this competition. Is it going to be hard, of course it is, but I want to give the proper respect to all of the companies and all of the talent. I’ve worked for most of them, so like for me, it’s definitely a respect shown there, but it’s also a respect towards the women that have worked so hard.”
The full interview is available at this link.
