BOAD: Lei Ying Lee New Knockouts Champion | Meet Corinne Joy
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
What's up, everybody? You're listening to the Busted Open podcast. It's your girl, Denise Salcedo, and we got to get into some TNA impact. We got a brand new TNA knockouts, world champion crowns in Lei Yingli. Let's talk about it.
This is the Busted Open podcast.
Laying Lee is champion once again.
What led to Lei Ying Lee becoming the new Knockouts Champion?
Congratulations to Laying Lee. I do not mind this at all for a couple of reasons, by the way. First and foremost, Ariana Grace. I got to tell you, I thought she did a good job as knockouts champion, and I'll tell you why. She had several matches. on tna like she had quite a few she did a little bit of everything you know she defended the title against jody thread she defended it against both danny luna and laying lee in a triple threat and then on top of that she also um she also had a couple of other little tag team matches in here in between then but she was consistently on the show is what i'm trying to get at She was consistently on the show. And one of the things that she did very well was really show off her charisma, her talking skills, the way that she is as a character.
And I think that for the most part, that's what we kind of expected out of Ariana from the second that she won the championship. We were really expecting to see her storyline just continue to grow. And it was around this time that, you know, she was doing the stuff right. with her dad. She also made a lot of, you know, she's still an NXT talent. So she made a shit ton of NXT appearances. She's with Birthright. So she kind of had a lot going on both on the TNA side of things and on the NXT side of things. And so I think that having Ariana as champion for the last you know what two months or so however long that was I really feel like it did a lot for Ariana it really started to give her a little bit more momentum and I think that prior to her winning the knockouts championship.
She was somebody that we enjoyed on NXT. We thought she was funny, but we were rarely ever seeing her like we didn't really get to see Ariana that often. And we didn't really know where she was that in terms of her potential. How do we see her because at this point, we really just saw her as a comedy act.
How did Ariana Grace perform during her championship reign?
And now I feel like we are starting to see her more as a wrestler coming off of her knockouts championship run. But more so still that she hasn't lost the personality, though, that she has been showing. So I do want to say that I thought she did a pretty tremendous job and she did a lot with the championship. But now that we're back to laying Lee laying Lee, when she won the title, I remember it being this moment the first time that she won the title. I remember it being this moment, an emotional one, where people were watching her reaction to winning this championship and everybody kept thinking like, oh my God, like she finally did it. Mind you, this was a woman that came off of a run in WWE that really didn't go too well.
so for laying lee to then go to tna and make herself into something win the championship and then end up getting more wwe tv time as a tna wrestler than she did as an actual wwe wrestler is pretty damn impressive so i feel though that even afterwards though it kind of felt like she lost the title pretty soon we didn't get as much as we thought in terms of competitiveness and competitive bouts for laying lee and therefore in a way i now see it as a as a i don't hate the title kind of going back and forth i think right now with the knockouts division there are there there could be more depth in the division and i do want to see some more women come into the division and that's one of the things that i've been talking about now for quite a while i almost feel like i sound like a broken record with that that i definitely do want to see more women come in here just so that we can have more different types of matchups and more challengers and maybe some fresh new champions because i do think if we had more people on the show who knows if ariana would have lost the title back to laggingly
Who knows if Laying Lee would have had as short of a run as she did because they were clearly trying to keep things alive and trying to keep things feeling exciting on the show.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:21
2
What led to Lei Ying Lee becoming the new Knockouts Champion?
0:21–2:18
3
How did Ariana Grace perform during her championship reign?
2:18–12:57
4
What impact did Lei Ying Lee's first title win have on her career?
12:57–17:02
5
Why is there a need for more depth in the Knockouts division?
17:02–28:15
6
What are the highlights from Mike Santana's championship journey?
28:15–30:40
Speakers
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