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Gisele Shaw reveals that there were plans for her to team up with Gail Kim in TNA.
The pair featured in a storyline together back in 2024. After failing to become TNA Knockout’s Champion, Gisele Shaw was visited in her cabin by TNA Hall of Famer Gail Kim.
She warned Shaw that she needed to leave behind the moniker of “The Quintessential Diva”, instead becoming the “Quintessential Knockout”. While she failed to become the Knockouts Champion, she turned face and was a star of the women’s division until leaving the promotion.
Talking about the angle with Ring the Belle, Gisele Shaw revealed where the story was meant to go. She claimed that the idea was for her to team with Gail Kim and wrestle as a Knockouts tag team. This didn’t happen obviously, which the former TNA star understood. However, she admits she’d have loved it to happen.
“Yeah, so there were talks about her and me actually doing a tag team run. I know! But you know what? As much as I would have loved for that to happen, obviously things change in wrestling.” Gisele Shaw said.
“The business changes constantly, so I can’t really take that personally. It was a thought—a great thought—but sometimes thoughts just don’t become reality. And that’s okay.”
Gisele Shaw comments on leaving TNA and addresses her future.
In an interview with Ring The Belle, Gisele Shaw was asked about her TNA release, and it was noted that it was shocking to the fans. She noted that it was shocking to her too.
“It was shocking to me too [laughs] because I was very quiet with it, and I didn’t want it to be a thing,” she said. “It got out there. I was literally just having tea in the morning, and the next thing I know, my phone’s dinging, I’m like, what’s happening? People are reaching out to me and they’re like, ‘Are you okay?’ I’m like, what’s happening? I didn’t want it to be a big thing, but it is what it is.”
Shaw was then asked to comment on the reasoning behind her departure from TNA. She said that things change in wrestling. Shaw also stated that it felt like they didn’t know what to do with her.
“Things in wrestling change, and I feel like we weren’t really just aligning, or maybe they didn’t really have creative-wise, it felt like it went back to like they don’t know what to do with me,” she said. “I was like, man, I’ve been here for three years. I really, really tried to stick it out, and like I said, things in wrestling change all time, and sometimes, that was my route, and it is what it is.”
