By that time, Gail Kim had truly become a wrestler. Gail Kim joined TNA in During her first match on June 9, , she lost to Traci Brooks. She reportedly beat the top Knockout from Awesome Kong to Angelina Love in her first tenure as champion.
The talented fighter even received Knockout of the Year. For all her success as a female wrestler, Gail left TNA in a less than satisfactory manner. She lost to Awesome Kong in her last match, but her impact is unmistakable. She undoubtedly cemented the role of women in the TNA roster through her episodes with Ms. Jackie and Sirelda. Kim hung her wrestling pants in after she suffered a back injury that left her unable to perform at peak level.
Despite her retirement, she has remained relevant in the dynamics of the sport and has become a producer with Impact Wrestling. Kim is happily married to Robert Irvine , a man of many titles. He is a talented chef, fitness expert, entrepreneur, and TV personality, among many other things. Irvine has a huge love for the nation's military.
Being a soldier at heart, he found a way to help veterans via a foundation he built in He attends troop rallies and is known to tour regularly with the USO. Kim's relationship with Irvine can be traced back to their first meeting on the set during the filming of a special episode of his show "Dinner: Impossible.
The show ran for seven seasons, and Irvine channeled the success into a spinoff titled "Restaurant: Impossible. With a long list of TV titles behind her, Kim has now retired from the sport, but continues to fight outside the ring as a producer for Impact Wrestling. She's practically revered in the wrestling space, but the foodie world knows her even more famously as the incredibly cool wife of Robert Irvine.
The two tied the knot in , when Kim was still active on the mat. Marriage and retirement haven't slowed Kim down one bit, though. Today, she continues to travel, speak, and inspire — as she told Afterbuzz TV , "I'm very disciplined, I always have been. At first, she fought in disguise. Masked and alias-ed as "La Felina," Kim lost her first match as a professional wrestler. But the losing streak didn't persist.
Within a couple of years, Kim signed with World Wrestling Entertainment, where she started a powerful, victory-heavy career. There, she was the first WWE Diva to win a championship in her debut match. After a series of continued WWE wins, she eventually switched leagues, and took Total Nonstop Action Wrestling by storm, starting in She absolutely dominated as the first-ever Knockouts Champion, and became known as a title-grabber.
She broke records by winning seven Knockout Championships, and spent over days as the reigning champion. Fans grew so accustomed to seeing her with a title that when she was eventually unseated, it was almost unfamiliar.
As you might expect, her winning reputation did not come easy — Kim experienced significant obstacles during her rise in the entertainment-wrestling world. She is no stranger to the danger of the sport and was injured multiple times. Her mom wasn't watching many of her matches, by that point. But the violent nature of wrestling wasn't the only obstacle Kim overcame. As a woman, she explains, there are a whole host of other things to conquer, before even stepping foot in the ring.
They change their clothes and are ready in 10 minutes; we're spending hours on make-up and hair, only to get it all messed up in the first round. We have to look good Girls nowadays follow us, but they're still shocked when they come in. It's so much harder than they expect. But Kim continues to come back to love-of-sport as her lifeline: "But if the passion is there, it won't go away," she concludes.
Passion got Kim far, but after she began to feel under-utilized by the company, she decided it wasn't enough. In , she spoke publicly against the WWE via a string of tweets posted to her personal account via SeScoops.
Imagine if we were given a storyline or some more time behind it! The WWE diva later expanded on her frustrations, writing : "This is the current situation for everyone who's asking: I quit last Monday.
And apparently after a total of five years of working for a company where I was not utilized or appreciated, I am now, for some reason, valuable enough to keep me under the remainder of my contract so I can't work elsewhere. Kim ultimately brought her talents elsewhere, but was later brutally honest about her qualms with the wrestling conglomerate. However, she was eventually unmasked in a match against Tracy Brooks.
She began wrestling in their then-developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling OVW and wrestled house shows and dark matches before being called up to their main roster.
She then feuded with Trish Stratus, Lita, and Victoria for the rest of and most of before being released by WWE on the 3 rd of November as a result of cost-cutting. After the dissolution of the group in early , she turned her attention to singles competition. It was in that she was named as the number one female wrestler in the world by Pro Wrestling Illustrated. She then had multiple championship reigns in the period between and Since , she has been working as a producer for the company as well.
She has garnered most of her earnings from her wrestling career. Gail Kim had an amazing wrestling career, and the records show that. With that being said, we wish her the best of luck for all her future endeavors and thank her for giving us such amazing wrestling moments.
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