Lacey Interview: Talks about start in wrestling, future of 'WSX', & more

Reported by Adam Martin of WrestleView.com
On Friday, March 23, 2007 at 6:50 PM EST

The following was transcribed by Andy J. of wrestlingweekly.com:

On March 20th, Wrestling Weekly hosts Doc Young and Les Thatcher were joined by F4W’s Bryan Alvarez for ‘hot topic’ and this week’s featured guest, WSXtra and Ring of Honor‘s, ‘The Lovely Lacey‘. Wrestling Weekly airs every Tuesday at 8pm Eastern at www.wrestlingweekly.com.

Bryan Alvarez discussed the following with Doc and Les for ‘Hot Topic’:

- His match with Larry Sweeney, meeting Doc and Claudio Castanoli at the ‘Fight Sports Mid-West’ show

- The F4W Online message board, meeting the people from there, whom he states were all “great"

- The Sports Illustrated steroid scandal, the WWE superstars involved, the press the story has generated

- WWE’s wellness program, steroid usage & it’s effects on a person’s health

For more on Bryan Alvarez and F4W, visit: www.figurefouronline.com.

Doc and Les were joined later on 'Wrestling Weekly' by WSX Xtra's and Ring of Honor's, 'The Lovely Lacey'. Les begins the interview saying Lacey was trained by Eddie Sharkey. Doc asks why Lacey wanted to get into wrestling and she explains her Dad was good friends with Eddie Sharkey, who he ran a few wrestling shows with and that she grew up around the wrestling business. Lacey continues by saying she was going to be trained at the ‘Monster Factory’ but instead she went to train with Eddie in Minnesota. Lacey says she was going to the University of Minnesota and dancing at the same time, along with her wrestling training. Doc highlights that Lacey was at the Fight Sports Mid-West show, and asks her about the first match she had, which featured WWE Superstar Daivari. Lacey says it was “very nerve wrecking" and was in a three person handicap match against former WCW wrestler, Lenny Lane. Lacey states she began training in May 2000 and had her first match in August of the same year. Les says that Lacey has worked Mercedes Martinez and she explains that she has a lot of respect for Mercedes.

Les talks about Shimmer, who Lacey has wrestled for and asks who came up with the name, ‘Minnesota Homewrecking Crew’, her tag team with Rain. She explains that it was Dave Prazak who came up with the name. Lacey goes on to discuss Rain with Doc, and says she is a good friend. Doc asks who was Lacey’s favourite opponents to wrestle in the mid-west. She highlights that she loved working against Daizee Haze, Mickie Knuckles and Mischif. Doc mentions that Lacey started out in Ring of Honor, when she was with Special K. Lacey then discusses Special K and when she started ’Lacey’s Angels’. She also goes onto mention an upcoming match between BJ Whitmer and Jimmy Jacobs. Doc talks about the Jimmy Jacobs music videos, which are on www.rohvideos.com Les asks Lacey what she would like to do in her future and what her goals are. She replies, saying she recently wrestled in Europe and would love to go back there and go to Japan too.

Listener Stevie J asks Lacey is there was to be an angle with Lacey and Jimmy Jacobs in Wrestling Society X. She highlights that she really was not sure about the storyline, hasn’t heard nothing else about WSX‘s future and discusses the company in more detail. Lacey goes onto to talk about WSXtra and that the matches were longer than those shown on television. Another question is what is Lacey’s favourite Jimmy Jacobs music video. She says that she doesn’t haven’t have a favourite and Jimmy should focus on wrestling!.

Another listener in the chat room, ‘Reptile’, asks where Lacey see’s ‘Shimmer’ in the future. Lacey states that it’s "not going anywhere any time soon" and DVD sales are doing well, they have bigger crowds and that "women‘s wrestling will continue to grow". Stevie J asks Lacey what her favourite match was. She replies that it was a street fight between herself, Jimmy Jacobs, Adam Pearce against Daizee Haze, BJ Whitmer and Colt Cabana, which she says “was a ton of fun…probably my favourite match I‘ve had". Another question from Ray L, who asks about Lacey working April Hunter and Taila Madison. Lacey notes that she’s worked both and has good times wrestling them. Another question is who are Lacey’s favourite ‘Joshi’ (Japanese women’s wrestling) wrestlers. She highlights that she has watched a lot of Manami Toyota back in the day, who wrestled for All-Japan Women’s Wrestling.

Doc and Les thank Lacey for being a guest and she has an official website at: www.thelovelylacey.com and a Myspace too, which you can visit at: www.myspace.com/6476234

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On Tuesday March 27th, Wrestling Weekly will welcome Sean Oliver of www.kayfabecommentaries.com. For more future guest information, visit www.wrestlingweekly.com and www.myspace.com/docyoung (the official MySpace site of 'Wrestling Weekly')