09:11:01
Lita
On
how her life has changed over the last year:
"It's been definitely like an interesting year and
it's hard some times. You know, on your days off you want
to sit down and take it all in, it goes by before you can
realize it. It's kind of had a lot of stops and starts this
year. That always happens to everyone, but especially with
the women because they go one direction and then decide
to switch up what they're doing and that way really all
the women have suffered a bit. And now with the title not
really being around it's kind of limited a lot of the actual
wrestling matches we've had. But I've been fortunate to
be basically staying on tv the whole time, which is always
a learning experience. It's really hard to absorb, but I
try to take it in so it's not gone and I haven't even realized
it.
On
being in the WWF spotlight: "The
more exposure you get, the more exposed you are as far as
them being able to knitpick and tear you apart. I'm very
lucky to have pretty close interaction with the fans and
there's always a lot more positive feedback than negative.
But, I read that and it does get to me. I try not to read
regarding matches, I know if I had a bad match. I don't
need to read about people telling me the match was bad.
So, yeah it does get to me. Especially the more the WWF
has been putting me in the spotlight, the larger microscope
you're under and they love to tear you apart. What doesn't
kill you makes you stronger."
On
the big kiss with Matt Hardy: "It's funny, I actually
remember the night the kiss was going to take place and
Matt saying how far do you want me to get up the ramp and
I was like `Let's just not talk about this, it's embarassing
me to talk about this'. It was like we were talking spots
like about a match, but at the same time because it wasn't
someone would come out of the locker room and see us talking
about it and I'd stop and get embarassed because I knew
they knew what we were talking about. It's embarassing,
but were used to it now. I'm glad it's him--somebody that
I'm close to as opposed to someone I barely know and then
you shake their hand and say 'okay, see you out there and
we'll kiss'.
On
the short time working against Chyna: "It was very
disappointing actually. Even from beginning the feud, it
was still a time that was very up-in-the-air for her that
she wasn't able to put in 100% knowing that she was already
having contract negotiation problems and feeling 'Am I gonna
get screwed on this?', which are totally legitimate concerns.
At the same time, me, this is what I wanted my whole life
and this IS what I think about every waking thought, you
know about wrestling. And I know at that time, hers wasn't.
So I'm wanting to put 100% into it and business-wise she
did want to, but creatively it wasn't like she was thinking
'Oh, I thought of this great spot we could do last night',
she's thinking about her talk show that she's going to be
on or whatever. And then we still had the plan of doing
a relatively long term feud that would have actually been
what I think the first feud to almost mirror one of the
guy's feuds.
"Going
through this mutual respect, then her turning heel, and
going into it and hopefully one day capturing the title.
I was really looking forward to it. And with that first
match, I was actually happy with it in the way that I feel
the original plan was to give them something so they wouldn't
be like 'That's what I waited for?'. But not give, I had
a million spots off the top of my head that I was looking
forward to doing with her. But it was like no, we'll save
that one cause we wanted to have somewhere to go with this.
I did have fun out there with her, I'm glad I got to have
at least that experience with her before she left, but actually
thinking and talking about it I'm really disappointed because
that was gonna be it. That was gonna be awesome for me,
for her, for the crowd."
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