April Hunter Interview - Talks about tour of Mexico, movie role & more
On Saturday, January 1, 2005 at 10:24 AM EST Steve Gerweck sent in the following recap...
- Hunter’s theme music by Ludacris was suggested by Slyck Wagner Brown.
- Hunter recently returned from a tour of Mexico, where she spent most of the month of December. She is glad to be home where the toilets work! Mexico is a great opportunity for independent women to learn a new style, including that all matches are best 2 out of 3 fall matches.
- Hunter is tentatively scheduled to return to Mexico in February.
- Hunter filmed an action movie called “Battlefield” last year, and it was released in Japan in December and is said to be doing quite well.
- Based on the success of her “Battlefield” movie, Hunter is interested in returning to Japan to wrestle, but the state of women’s wrestling isn’t the best right now.
- April also appears in the upcoming movie "Just Another Romantic Wrestling Comedy," which also features “The Predator” Don Frye, Joanie Laurer (Chynna Doll) and Ken Yasuda. In the movie, Hunter is married to Frye, and her character actually ages through the movie.
- Hunter plugged her up coming shows: 1/8 Cyberspace Wrestling in Wayne, NJ against Tracy Brooks and 1/15 in Philadelphia, PA for 3PW.
- Hunter also plugged her newly designed web site, www.aprilhunter.com - which features more pictures and videos.
- Hunter says her 2004 wrestling DVD is outselling her current Centerfold DVD.
- Hunter highlighted a CCW three way match with Ariel and Nikki Roxx, a singles match for USA Pro Wrestling against Papalicious, and a tag match with Brown vs. Justin Credible and Mercedes Martinez as some of her best matches in 2004.
- Hunter admitted to feeling down following the recent releases of WWE divas including Gail Kim, Nidia and Jazz, and being replaced by non-trained models. A poll on gerweck.net that revealed that wrestling fans still wanted to see women wrestle in the ring over “T and A” matches lifted her spirits.
- April thought the diva search was good for ratings, but not good to improve the state of women’s wrestling.
- In the diva search, Hunter favored Christy Hemme, and not just because she also had red hair!
- Hunter admitted that her previous nude modeling may be preventing her from getting a job with WWE, but has no regrets in doing it.
- The wrestling business has afforded her the opportunity to travel all around the world.
- Slyck Wagner Brown has a try out match with TNA on 1/18, but Hunter doesn’t believe she’ll be apart of it.
- Hunter talked about her tag team with Nikki Roxx. Hunter admitted that the Killer Babes lack opponents due to a lack of women tag teams in the business.
- Gerweck congratulated Hunter for being listed at #1 in Wrestling Clothesline’s top 50 independent female wrestlers.
- Hunter hinted that she might be working soon against a recently released WWE divas.
- When asked about something that would surprise people about April Hunter, she admitted that she is a homebody and knows the release dates of the movies at Blockbuster.
- Hunter says that she doesn’t plan to marry again anytime soon.
- Hunter is working regularly for 3PW and Cyberspace Wrestling in New Jersey.
- April says that she wrestles females about 50 percent of the time, and 50 percent of the time against men.
- Hunter is currently writing a weekly column for 1wrestling.com
- Hunter said that she got satellite radio as a Christmas gift that will allow her to listen to comedy, heavy metal and rap during long car rides.