Mickie James reveals the 'last item' a professional wrestler ought to need to be as she gears up for 'WWE LFG'

Mickie James is a legend on the subject of ladies’s skilled wrestling.

She carried out within the Nationwide Wrestling Alliance, Ring of Honor, Whole Nonstop Motion (TNA) Wrestling and Ohio Valley Wrestling earlier than breaking out with WWE in 2005.

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James had an enduring and memorable profession with WWE, together with her first stint ending in 2010 and her second stint ending in 2021. She was a five-time WWE ladies’s champion and one-time WWE Divas champion. She was in TNA, International Drive Wrestling and some different indie promotions in between runs with WWE.

James’ huge expertise in skilled wrestling made her the proper alternative as a coach within the upcoming tv present “WWE Legends and Future Greats,” often known as “WWE LFG.”

Mickie James arrives previous to the 53rd Academy of Nation Music Awards on the MGM Grand Backyard Area in Las Vegas on April 15, 2018. (Larry McCormack/The Tennessean by way of USA TODAY NETWORK)

The truth present, which premieres on Sunday, will see James, The Undertaker, Booker T and Bubba Ray Dudley mentor the subsequent technology of wrestling superstars. Viewers will get an inside take a look at what it takes to make it within the enterprise.

James advised Fox Information Digital in a current interview it was fairly troublesome to find out what sort of traits she seemed for in a professional wrestler given a competitor’s background and expertise.

“Every particular person you need to coach so in another way relying on the place they’re of their wrestling journey,” she defined. “I all the time say that I believe what makes a celebrity is the flexibility to faucet into the factor that makes you distinctive, that stands out from the gang, whether or not or not it’s bodily or emotionally or no matter, and making that bigger than life.

“In my view, as a expertise, quite a lot of the occasions these issues that, simply by tradition and our need to slot in and be like everybody else and regular – that’s the very last thing you need in wrestling is to be like everybody else and regular. You need to be bigger than life. These issues that make us and set us aside and make us so completely different are the issues that we’ve pushed down and tapped down and type of hidden and are insecure about.

Ruby Riott, proper factors to Mickie James standing on the nook ropes earlier than the beginning of a ladies’s match throughout Saturday’s WWE Stay wrestling occasion Jan. 19, 2019. (Ronald W. Erdrich/Reporter-Information)

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“And, I might simply be talking for myself, however I usually discover these are the issues that you just need to make bigger, even greater and go greater with as a result of these are the issues which are going to set you aside from all people else. The very last thing you need is to be like anybody else within the area.”

James mentioned she was excited to be a coach on the present and to drag the curtain again on a few of the WWE greats she will probably be working with.

She added that she believed she had a singular expertise due to her profession trajectory.

“I do suppose I relate most to those ‘Future Greats’ as a result of I did undergo the developmental system after which got here as much as tv,” she advised Fox Information Digital. “I can perceive. I can relate slightly bit extra with them of what it feels prefer to be of their footwear.

“It’s been quite a lot of run to do. I really feel like I’m consistently studying even nonetheless and it’s cool to get to know these expertise on a unique degree, on an actual private degree and have fallen in love with all of them. But additionally to get to know all of my fellow coaches on a unique degree and hopefully earn a newfound respect from all of them. They definitely, I really feel like, are my brothers now and I am keen on each one in every of them. So, yeah, it’s been quite a lot of enjoyable.”