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Guest: Former WWE/ECW Diva Dawn Marie
Date: 5/5/08
Your Hosts: Patrick Kelley, James Walsh, & Nick Noel
Call her Tammy Lynn Bytch, that's B-Y-TCH! Call her the aggressive woman
who was too much for Torrie Wilson's father to handle and that shared a high
rated lesbian kiss with Torrie... Hell, call her whatever you want! I call
her one of the most complete female performers of our generation. Of course
I am talking about Dawn Marie! And, she's the latest interview from your
friends at The Interactive Interview!
This interview discusses it all! Everything from her meager beginnings, ribs,
paying her dues, her thoughts on the business today, her unceremonious departure
from WWE, and so much more!
Don't miss out! Tune in and listen now! Its free and archived from your friends
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Dawn Marie
- The interview begins with Dawn talking about being
a mother and she says that she loves it and says “It’s her greatest
success”
- She’s back with the Indy’s and she’s
having fun with it. She says she’s tough on the new girls because they
need to learn the ropes a little bit. She says that it isn’t their fault,
but more the fault of the people hiring them. Dawn refers to them as “8X10
girls” because they basically get hired as models and learn what to
do on the job.
- Dawn says that the scene is very different now. She
says that there is a lack of respect for the veterans and its too easy to
get to the top. When talking about her own experience as a valet, Dawn says
that she wasn’t even allowed to step into the ring. It was Buddy Landell
who told her that she needed to earn the right to be in the ring, and she
is thankful for that experience because it taught her respect for
wrestling.
- When she came to ECW, she was asked to go there after
she had paid her dues, but when she was in the WWE, she saw guys coming to
shows asking for a tryout match. This goes into what Al Snow said when he
stated that it is way too easy to get into wrestling.
- Dawn says the business is tarnished and she feels bad
for the veterans that made wrestling the success that it was. The respect
in wrestling diminished. She hopes it will get better, but she’s
doubtful.
- When asked about her first role with ECW, she says
that it was supposed to be a one shot deal, but the plan was for Terri Runnels
to be brought in to feud with Tammy. Terri ended up going back to WWF, and
Dawn was asked to come back. She then gives another example of how she was
forced to pay her dues as Bubba Ray was a little rough on her when she asked
about a plane ticket. Once again, she points out that at the time she thought
he was being mean, but she learned how to respect wrestling because of
it.
- When she was with ECW, she ran a Real Estate business
while on the road and continues to do so today. She says that Paul Heyman
took very good care of her, and she worked very hard.
- James then jokingly brings up the rumors that Kurt
Angle was the father of her baby. When talking about the possibility of her
going to TNA, she believes that past rumors might be the reason that they
never brought her in. When addressing the rumors of her being approached
by Wrestling Society X, she says that they never did.
- She says that she doesn’t do the Indy scene to
support herself, but to do it because she loves doing it.
- Dawn then talks about a recent conversation she had
with Simon Diamond where they discussed the lack of respect in wrestling
among the young talents and she says that it is necessary to educate them,
but also says that she wouldn’t want to be harsh with it. The Hardcore
Holly incident of a few years back is then referenced.
- James then asks her about the downfall of WCW and ECW
and she says that once that happened she felt that she needed to get to the
top with the WWE. She learned how to wrestle which she felt was the best
way to get a job there. She felt that she wasn’t the best wrestler,
but also felt that her work as a manager helped her hide any short comings
she had.
- She then mentions the cycle of women in wrestling where
they go through periods where they are all valets, and then become wrestles,
and sometimes mixing it up. She’s been through all the cycles and felt
that she needed to adjust.
- When talking about the famous angle Torrie Wilson in
the hotel room, she says that she never had a problem with it and was only
doing what she was asked to do. And she also said that it made sense within
the storyline. She also says that the stuff she did in the WWE was a nice
change of pace from what she had done in ECW.
- She says that hardest part of wrestling is staying
fresh and finding ways to stay entertaining.
- Dawn is then asked about love triangle she did with
Jackie Gayda & Charlie Haas which wasn’t the greatest angle in the
world. She says that it’s the wrestlers jobs to try and make any storyline
work, and she says that its not really the writers’ fault as they have
never been involved in wrestling before. She says for other things in media,
they would work, but the stories “don’t make wrestling sense”
and the writers are doing the best that they can.
- She gets frustrated with old stars constantly being
brought back and not creating new ones. She says they can do a trial and
error thing with the new guys to try and do new things. The problem is that
the old stars don’t work enough with new stars.
- Dawn says that she is currently writing book and has
been for years. She wants her book to be about what it is like to be a woman
in wrestling and to talk about the things she did right and wrong.
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