Reaction: Meet TNA's Newest Knockout 'The Gnomie' Gabby Forza
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How did Gabby react to the announcement of her TNA signing?
What's up everybody? You're listening to Busted Open. And today we are chatting with TNA's brand new knockout, the Nomi Gabby Forza.
This is the Busted Open Podcast.
Gabby has officially signed with TNA Wrestling. Gabby, congratulations. I want to start off by saying that the overwhelming love that I saw you get on all of those posts, the videos, the interviews, everything was massive. Gabby, how did you feel when that announcement dropped and seen your peers, your fans and so many people show you so much love and adoration.
Oh my god, it was a lot. I was overwhelmed in the best of ways, but like it was so much more than I could have asked for. I definitely wasn't expecting such a reception. And I'm just so happy that people care. But I I really hope that everyone that is excited for me tunes into what's gonna happen at TNA while I'm there because I'm really excited to blow Expectations out of the water. I really am.
The reactions that you got from so many people. I mean, I saw so many people from TNA commenting. I saw so many of the girls that were at Lodestone with you commenting. And I can imagine that the last twenty four hours your phone has been blowing up. Who's been reaching out to you? What was everybody's reactions?
Oh my gosh. Uh you mentioned Lodestone. Yeah. It's like Everyone I feel like I've come in contact with in professional wrestling on my indie run. from people have wrestled, uh people that have mentored me throughout my journey, like Bailey reached out and she said she was super emotional for me, which was super sweet, um, super excited for me. And I just love that like in wrestling I feel like there's not that many surprises anymore. But for this announcement, everyone was surprised in the most positive of ways and that makes me so happy and that makes me feel like so confident going into this next chapter and I just feel so lucky and grateful and I've always wanted to like make everyone proud, but it feels really nice that I actually did.
And like, oh wow, I wasn't I always said I wanna make everyone proud, but I can't believe I actually did it and so many people are really proud of me.
You obviously now have a friendship, a mentorship with Bailey, but were you expecting her to reach out to you?
No. But she she really she really does keep like a close eye on like anything uh us Lodestone girls accomplish throughout our career. It was lured, like the same day it was announced, so I I know it really made waves and The fact that it it got got to her and everything, um, she posted about it on the Lodestone page and it was just really, really cool and surreal. The people that are supporting me and like rooting for me are from All levels and Oh man, I'm so excited.
Yes. Oh my God.
Which mentors and fellow wrestlers reached out after the signing news?
That's incredible. So I do want to dive into what you've gotten to do so far with TNA. Uh so far you've had the opportunity to face Indy Hartwell and Jody Threat, which was part of the knockouts television title tournament. Let's talk about both of those matches. How did you feel wrestling Indy? How did you feel wrestling Jody? And just getting to go out there and do the thing, you know, be on T V and be part of the AMC era of TNA.
Yeah, I mean that is a really good point. It this is a a really special year for TNA and a new era. And I do feel very lucky to be part of that, but I also wanted to make a good impression. I wanted to show what I'm about and Being a first impression to a whole new audience, the people there, the people at home that are gonna be watching, um, this title tournament, the knockouts TV title tournament did not even exist. prior to that week, like it and it was announced, it was shared with the world at Slammiversary just a few uh like a week before and at that To me it was like There's no preparing for that. It's like whatever preparation got you here is the preparation you did for this opportunity. So for me, I was like, you
You're ready. Like this is it. You're you're gonna show them where where you're at, where it you got. And I definitely made an impact. I showed Jody Threat that I can go toe-to-toe with her.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did Gabby react to the announcement of her TNA signing?
0:00–3:06
2
Which mentors and fellow wrestlers reached out after the signing news?
3:06–8:35
3
What was Gabby’s experience in her first TNA Knockouts TV‑title tournament matches?
8:35–15:39
4
How did Gabby describe the locker‑room culture and camaraderie in TNA?
15:39–19:29
5
What were the most intense death‑match moments Gabby has faced?
19:29–23:35
6
How does Gabby compare wrestling men versus women and prepare for each?
23:35–24:42
7
What upcoming match is Gabby most excited about and why?
24:42–25:22
8
Where can fans follow Gabby ‘The Gnomie’ Forza online?
25:22–25:28