Eric Bischoff and Conrad Thompson discussed TNA’s move to Monday night to compete with WWE RAW on the latest “83 Weeks” podcast.
Awesome Kong, who was considered one of the best female workers in the company after her matches with Gail Kim, was one of the many names working in the promotion at the time.
Bischoff disagreed with Conrad that Awesome Kong would be a big star today she was around today. Bischoff agreed that she appeared impressive and credible, but he claims she was difficult to work with.
Bischoff said, “She had a great look. She was impressive as hell, she was believable in the ring, but she was difficult to work with. If she was around today, unless she addressed that, because you can have all the tail in the world, but if you’re not manageable behind the scenes, by manageable I mean when it came to creative and laying out matches and being professional, unless you can bring that to the table along with your overpowering personality and your character all the things you can do in the ring, you’re not going to make it. You’re not going to last five minutes anywhere.”
Kong later worked for AEW before announcing her retirement last year due to back problems.
You can listen to the complete podcast below:
(h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription)
