The Hannibal TV recently caught up with retired IMPACT Wrestling Knockout Velvet Sky during a personal appearance at the Rhode Island Comic Con. Sky talked retirement, her time in The Beautiful People, women’s wrestling today, IMPACT’s current product, and more.
Well, I wrestled for fifteen years and as a wrestler, we all have a shelf life, so I mean, after fifteen years of bumping and getting thrown around the ring, I just decided that I want to be able to stand up straight and be healthy when I’m sixty, so I just knew that it was my time. I had so much fun in my career, traveled the world, met awesome fans, wrestled in so many memorable matches and now I’m just a fan of outside the ring.
All the girls that were in The Beautiful People: Angelina Love, Lacey Von Erich, Madison Rayne, they’re all awesome. They were so much fun to work with. We were like sisters. We had so much fun on the road together and I couldn’t ask for a better group of girls, really.
All the women in the wrestling industry work really really hard, so I mean, everyone is killing it and doing their thing right now, so much props to them.
There’s no more original Knockouts there. I think Gail Kim was the last one; but, that’s OK because there’s a new crop of girls in there now and they are awesome. They are killin’ it. They tear it up each week. I don’t get to watch as much as I’d like to, but they have a really solid group of girls in the Knockouts Division now and I’m super proud of them all.
I’m a personal trainer. I do personal training out of Connecticut and I love the wrestling business. I love going out and meeting the fans still, so I retired from in-ring action, but I still go out and do comic-cons and wrestling shows and conventions and stuff, meet all the awesome fans. I just don’t get physical anymore, so between traveling and personal training that’s kinda what’s going on with me right now.
(Transcription Credit: Michael McClead, WrestleZone)
Readers can watch the Velvet Sky interview in its entirety below:
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