As part of her Last Rodeo, Mickie James will challenge Jordynne Grace for the Impact Wrestling Knockouts Championship in a ‘Career vs. Title’ match at the upcoming Hard To Kill pay-per-view event in Atlanta, GA.
James and Grace were on Busted Open Radio to promote their January 13th match, and both the champion and challenger honored each other ahead of the pay-per-view.
In an attempt to explain the importance of the match, James said,
“This championship means a lot to us both, the Knockouts World Champion, there can be only one. Jordynne, you’ve been a dominant champion, you’ve been an amazing champion. I’ve sat back, and especially leading up to this, watched a lot of your matches and I know I’m coming in for a war, but I hope that you know the same. I think it’s exciting for the fans, and this is what the Last Rodeo was all about, was to get to this moment, to get to the championship. In that time, you’ve [Grace] held onto that championship very tightly and dominantly, and I respect that, and I respect you.”
Grace noted that while she wished for both of them to win, only one woman can walk out of Center Stage as the victor. She said,
“I wish there could be two winners too, but there can’t. I will say, coming up into this, I feel like a lot of fans are leaning more in Jordynne’s favor in the sense of they don’t think I can beat her, and I can understand why. She is younger, she is stronger, she is faster. She has been a dominant champion, and she is the future, and she is the definition of what this future is, of not just the Knockouts Division, but of women’s wrestling as a whole, and what this new generation is all about.
“I think it’s really awesome that I can still be in this locker room and have these types of matches against women like her and test myself, and the test ls leading up to this, in the Last Rodeo, some of them were a lot more difficult than I anticipated. I know that this match is going to be my hardest one yet, so all I can do is my best. I know that Jordynne is over-deliver, she always does. At the end of the night, I guess we’re gonna see, let the best woman win. But I respect you, I really do.”
