Current Lucha Underground and former Impact Wrestling talent Chelsea Green recently appeared on the WPW Podcast. You can check out the full interview at this link, and submitted highlights below.
Lessons Learned Being In The Pro Wrestling Business At This Stage Of Her Career:
What happened was, I did Tough Enough, and when I got kicked off and didn?t get a contract, I thought---and this was naive of me, but I assumed that they would see how much that I loved this and how quickly I learned, and that no matter what even when I left I would be receiving a contract, so when I left Tough Enough and sat on my couch for about a month or two as I waited and waited and never received a call, I kind of had to think outside the box and had to think, okay, now what? I am now stuck in Canada. I am not legally allowed to work in the United States. I really don?t know what I am doing, and for the amount of time that I spent being on Tough Enough, I really wasn?t wrestling. I had to come up with something different. I asked myself: where are people going to generate a buzz to make a name for themselves? The two places I thought of were Mexico or Japan. I worked on trying to get to Mexico, which was the first thing that I really wanted to do, but a couple of my girlfriends thought that I should learn how to wrestle before I go to Mexico, so I should try out in Japan. That is how I kind of got over there in Japan. I still didn?t really know what I was doing, but with the language barrier over in Japan, they don?t know that you don?t know what you are doing, so every crazy move that I wanted to try, they were like, okay, let?s try it. That is how my confidence and movesets grew by trying things that I wouldn?t have tried had I been here in the United States.