Impact Wrestling star Jody Threat had a skateboarder gimmick early in her career, and she recently discussed how it wasn’t something she was interested in.
Speaking with Fightful, Threat weighed in on Cora Jade ‘stealing’ her skateboarder gimmick in WWE NXT.
You can check out some highlights from the interview below:
On figuring her character out: “I struggle with it still. What you see is me just cranked up on usually Reign Energy Drinks. Truly but I like the gimmick. So my original gimmick, if you will, was more of like a skater girl, which I did not want to do. I wanted to keep my skating life out of wrestling because they were two separate passions, and I didn’t want them to bleed so much into each other.”
On the skateboarder gimmick: “My first trainer before I got to Josh [Alexander] was very adamant about me trying it out as a gimmick just because it was so much a part of me, and I could do some cute little spots on the outside with my board. So, I used to hit a head scissors off my board, like a lariat spear, and set it up for really cool cutoffs.”
On her reaction to Cora Jade doing a skateboarding character in NXT: “I didn’t want to exploit that part of me. So, it always felt awkward. I spent so long trying to shake that board [gimmick]. But, again, I really didn’t want to bring that into this world because wrestling, for me, I have to keep it separate from real life, Jody. So, what happened was one of the girls from NXT who was on the Indies, who I did wrestle, stole the skateboarded gimmick, and I was like, Oh, hell, yeah. Now, I can drop it, and then I just went straight into truly 16; 17-year-old Jody hopped up on Reign Energy Drinks.”
