Maria Kanellis Believes She Didn’t Deserve To Win The TNA Knockouts Championship

Maria Kanellis believes that she didn’t deserve to win the TNA Knockouts Championship during her time with the promotion.

In September of 2016, Maria would become the TNA Knockouts Champion, defeating Allie to win the gold before later dropping the title after almost two months to Gail Kim

While speaking to Wrestling Life Online in a recent interview, Maria Kanellis spoke about the title win, noting that she doesn’t believe she deserved the victory.

“For the story, it was awesome. For where the division was at, it worked. Because if you take something away, then people want it more. It’s that old saying of playing hard to get, and I think at the time, it worked perfectly. I was so blessed to work with such amazing women. I was working with Chelsea Green at the time. I was working with Allysin Kay. I was working with Gail Kim. Mia Yim, she was there for a little bit of the time that I was there, Rosemary. There was just such a fantastic group of women that were working there that… I didn’t really deserve the title because I wasn’t really ‘wrestling’ wrestling. But as far as for the championship itself and for the story, I think it worked really well.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Maria spoke about Batista interrupting her 2009 WWE Diva Of The Year Slammy award speech. You can read more about that here.

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