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"THE WILD CHILD" JODY THREAT talks TNA, WWE NXT, Spitfire, Dani Luna, Ash by Elegance & more · What Do You Call It? Podcast!

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  Hello and hello and welcome to a very special episode of What Do
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  You Call It Podcast. I'm your host GB.
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  Today's guest is a former two time TNA Knockouts World Tag
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  Team Champion. Please welcome the wild child
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  Jodie Threat. Jodie, how you doing this
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  morning? As confirmed in the.
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  Yeah, good morning for me. I guess afternoon for you.
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  I'm good. I've had my coffee, so we're
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  ready to go. Nice nice, I've had a few
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  coffees today, quite excited but I think this might be a
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  highlight for me. But unfortunately, sadly, we did
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  see Spitfire disband as a result of a pre match stipulation at
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  Under Siege. And I want to discuss with you
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  this great tag team with Danny Luna first because I know you've
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  not a teamed with her, but you've actually wrestled each
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  other as well in TNA. So tell me first of all about
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  her as an opponent. Danny Luna, in my opinion, is
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  one of the best wrestlers in the world and the world doesn't know
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  it yet, which makes her super dangerous because people go in
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  there, you know, not realizing what she's capable of.
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  She's underrated and I honestly cannot wait for the world to see
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  what she's capable of because I know what she's capable of, but
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  I I feel like she hasn't been given the stage yet to see what
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  she's really capable of. I, I think she's tremendous.
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  I remember seeing that progress TNA and you can just say there
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  was, there was something there and time.
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  I think she's quite early in the career, but she really is
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  shining in the TNA in my opinion.
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  I think so too, and it's only going to get more more evident
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  as how good she is and I can't wait.
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  And tell me about her as A tag team partner.
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  No supportive, someone that understands give and take and
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  someone that I just vibed with so well inside and outside the
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  ring. Our friendship got to a point
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  where we can look at each other and be be able to communicate
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  and, and not say a word and know what we need to do.
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  And obviously that translates very well in the ring when
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  you're wrestling and like opponents, you, you just kind of
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  read each other and know each other so well.
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  Exactly exact. And I think that's why we had so
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  much success so early on in our pairing.
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  You know, she, she had my back, I had her back.
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  And I think that like our, our strengths and weaknesses really
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  complemented each other. We always laughed.
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  We describe like her sort of style as like she's strong and
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  brawly, whereas I'm brawly and strong.
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  So it's like almost like perfect, you know what I mean?
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  And I'm really excited for her to run as a solo wrestler, even
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  though it breaks my heart and even though she's acting weird
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  lately, you know, maybe she's just hungry, but I think it's
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  it's time for her to shine. And like I said, I've known for
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  a long time what she's capable of.
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  And yeah, I'm excited for the world to see.
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  Your team made a good pairing and I thought you jailed well
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  and also there were compliments told me about winning the TNA
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  Knockouts the World Tag Team Championship and being 2024 TNA
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  Knockouts Tag Team of the Year. Again, we kind of got together
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  and won very quickly and and to be able to do that with a real
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  life best friend, I don't know if a lot of people know, but
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  we're like real life best friends.
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  She's I would consider her a sister and I would literally
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  kill for her. Just saying.
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  So to be able to do that and to go on that journey with someone
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  that is in real life a best friend, it was just so special
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  winning it. The second time was actually on
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  my birthday and that was a really sick birthday present.
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  And again, to be able to do that with my best friend and to be.
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  Able to address the hangover. Yeah, no, no, no, just off of
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  Doctor Pepper. We love our Doctor Pepper, but
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  yeah, it was fucking great. Awesome, awesome.
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  You had quite the feud with the Elegance brand led by Ash by
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  Elegance, unfortunately, who recently retired.
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  So tell me about this rivalry. I think the listeners would
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  definitely want to hear about this because it went on for
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  quite a while. Yeah, and I think Ash hasn't
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  necessarily retired. She just needed to take a step
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  away to deal with some stuff. But for me, that was a very cool
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  opportunity because it took me out of my shell, which is the
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  kind of character that all four of those members, you know, Ash,
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  George, Maggie and Heather, it, it's so different, starkly
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  different to what Danny, Luna and I.
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  And I feel like working with them allowed us to kind of
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  express ourselves more and to kind of understand how to work
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  with that sort of energy. And just I, I don't know if you
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  guys ever watch like any of the, the, the vignettes that we kind
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  of did with them or even like we had so much fun when we whooped
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  them and they had to become our concierge.
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  That was really fun. As much as it was challenging, I
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  have to say that I really did enjoy it for the different
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  aspect of wrestling. Like Danny, Luna and I are very
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  much like, we're going to beat your butts in the ring, and we
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  don't necessarily always get to express ourselves outside the
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  Reagan. It gave us that opportunity and
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  for me personally, I think it allowed me to grow as ATV
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  character. Because I think you came up your
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  shell, didn't you? So.
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  I really did, yeah. See a different side of you and
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  it works. You know it's.
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  Yeah. Memorable.
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  I actually enjoyed your bumps and bikes show.
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  I had it released on YouTube. It was really fun and I thought
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  it was really cool for you to allow fans to kind of be on this
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  resting journey, that episode. Yeah, New York is really good.
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  And backstage anniversary, you talked to Leon Slater.
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  I can see you doing an episode. I'm looking forward to it in the
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  UK because I know you're not a stranger to Great Britain.
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  But also tell me about if you want to do an episode, where in
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  the UK would you do it? I already know specifically in
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  Cardiff in the market, there's a in the back Welsh cakes.
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  There's I can't remember what the place is called.
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  I know it. If you put me in that market in
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  Cardiff, I will bring you there. That is where I would bring
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  George the cameraman and I would show people.
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  My favorite thing it literally in the UK are those fudge cakes.
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  I love it. All the things in the UK,
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  Cardiff fudge cakes and the cakes.
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  Fair play. I I I think Cardiff's a wicked
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  town, love. It it is.
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  It is great wrestling too, Like very good wrestling there.
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  Lots of good wrestlers come out of there too.
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  That's it's good. It's good.
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  It's got the good resting scene and I think Canada as well away
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  you know where you've been based the Canadian wrestling scene.
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  I think it's just such a history to it isn't there and it's
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  still. I think So what I love about, I
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  think like what kind of makes our two nations different than
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  say, like America is because it's so hard for us to get to
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  mainstream wrestling, which is like the American eyes.
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  And so we work so hard and where we are.
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  And I know like right now like it's specifically looking at the
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  UK, like there's like the the new wave schools that are out
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  there that are just popping out talented town.
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  And we now have one in Canada. And we're just seeing that like
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  cross nation sort of talent exchange.
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  It's it's really cool. That's what.
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  It's a parallel. It's.
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  It's just the talent and the roster and it's been like that
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  for a very long time with the everyone's background so
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  different and it gives you that exposure.
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  It's not just the North American wrestling.
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  Oh, cool. UK, he's from there.
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  Oh, I should want to check this out.
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  And Canada, yeah, Mexico and Japan.
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  And TNA is given that that opportunity and that exposure.
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  Yeah. What I've got to ask is we've
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  seen many crossover matches in both TNA and www.n XT due to
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  this successful work relationship.
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  I want to ask who would who else would you like to wrestle in
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  NXT? Jordan Grace, I did not get my
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  hands on her when we shared a locker room and I, I I want
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  Jordan Grace period, but. Not being awesome match, I think
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  yourself I think it would, it'd be just an easy match to watch
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  because I think it's just guaranteed to be a good match.
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  Or just fight or just go to war, I think is what will happen.
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  And then sort of plug out articles, be like, that's great,
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  let's do it again. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
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  Awesome, awesome. Just one or two more questions
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  because I know your time is very limited and I'm very
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  appreciative of your time. Sure, of course.
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  The TNA app. It's a great subscription based
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  streaming service for TNA. Thousands and thousands of hours
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  of on demand total non-stop action.
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  If you could guide new fans involving matches that you've
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  been a part of in your TNA career.
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  What matches top of your head do you think?
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  OK that's going to make them a Jodie Threat fan instantly on
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  the TNA Plus app? That's a great question.
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  I think there's a few like hidden relics in there.
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  When we had Trinity, I had a match with her and I feel like
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  it was a cute little match. I'm not saying it was like
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  anything wild, but it was like, you know, a short little match
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  that was really fun. I draw the attention there.
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  I had like a little match with Dianna when she was with us too.
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  But maybe even bringing it a bit more to like, like this year,
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  that hardcore match we had with the Elegance, it was pretty
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  wild. And I think would be a good
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  watch too. They were like tables involved.
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  And it was it was a bit of a spicy match and that was more of
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  like A tag or was A tag team match.
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  But I think that would be also a good example.
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  And yeah, I think my greatest hits are to come.
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  Like, I think that it's only been like this year that I've
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  gotten my feet under me and TV, like I'm very much a, I came up
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  in the Indies and the TV wrestling is a different beast.
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  And it's taken me admittedly, a few years just to kind of get
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  adjusted to this style. So I think what I'm pumping out
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  now is better than what it was in the past.
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  And I think my confidence is increased too.
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  So I think really people need to keep their eyes on me for 2026.
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  I agree. I don't think that's actually a
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  great follow up. So my last question for you,
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  Jodie Threat, please tell me what's next for you or what are
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  you really eyeing up any personal goals in TNA 2026?
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  I think it's cliche to say, but I'm going to say it anyway.
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  I'm eyeing up that woman's knockout championship.
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  I'm preparing myself in the areas that I compare, prepare
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  that to prepare myself for when I get that opportunity.
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  That being I'm training very closely with it like a boxing
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  coach. I'm doing jiu jitsu a few times
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  a week. I'm lifting heavy.
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  We have our our wrestling school new wave, which I'm training at.
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  So, and I'm getting those indie reps to make sure that any new
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  tools that I'm bringing two TNA have been worked through and
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  that I understand that they work and they will harm my opponents.
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  So yeah, my eyes are on on the gold.
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  And I think that if you're a wrestler, your eye should always
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  be on the gold. So I promise you though, that
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  2026, you're going to see a new wild child, someone that's more
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  confident and more ready. I believe it's going to happen,
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  I really do. So you got my approval there and
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  I'm looking forward to seeing more of your videos as well on
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  the heading for that. Brilliant by the way.
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  But where can listeners find you on social media so they can keep
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  up to date with you in the future?
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  Yeah, please, basically Twitter, Instagram, just look up Jodie
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  Threat, JODYTHREAT and you will find my stuff and any new stuff
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  that is on YouTube, I will obviously advertise on my
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  Instagram. I've been working very hard on
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  my social media presence the last few years.
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  And finally we are posting some of those projects.
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  So I would recommend watch because I work very close with a
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  guy named George, George Barboza.
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  And like as you said, like his editing and his visions
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  excellent. And we mesh really well too.
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  So I'm excited for also what we'll be producing in 2026.
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  It's going to be a big year 2026.
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  I feel it, I do. And I hope you get the cakes as
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  well in Cardiff, but I wish you nothing but the best in 2026.
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  Thank you very much for your time.
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  I'm looking forward to seeing Northwestern Journey continue.
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  Thank you. If you can give Jody a follow,
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  give me a follow on my social media handles.
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  but also have a great weekend. Just do that for me.
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