00:00What is up, everybody?
00:01Welcome to Around the Ring.
00:03As always, I'm your host, Gia Miller,
00:05and today we are sitting down with my good friend,
00:09my knockout sister, Killer Kelly.
00:11Kelly, thank you for sitting down with me today.
00:13Thank you for inviting me.
00:14I've always wanted to be one of those.
00:16Yes, yes, there's been a couple times now
00:18where we were like, oh, let's do an Around the Ring today,
00:20and then something happened, life is hectic,
00:22life be lifin'.
00:23And speaking of life,
00:25you had a pretty big life event happen last year.
00:30You became a mommy.
00:33Yeah, Mommy Kelly.
00:34We almost had a special guest.
00:36We almost had Miss Ruby with us,
00:37but it's nap time,
00:38and we know better than to come between a diva
00:42and her nap time.
00:43Exactly.
00:44She needs her beauty sleep.
00:45And can I just say,
00:47and it shouldn't be a shock,
00:50the best baby ever.
00:52The best baby ever.
00:54And you are, like,
00:56you were meant to be a mom.
00:57You just, like, motherhood looks so good on you,
01:00and, like, you came back so quickly.
01:03Tell me what this journey has been like
01:05over the past year,
01:07becoming a mom,
01:08then getting back into the ring.
01:09Tell me a little bit about it.
01:10Oh, that was crazy.
01:12It was definitely crazy.
01:13Like, I didn't expect to come back this quick.
01:16Yeah.
01:17Like, it was literally seven months on the dot.
01:18Yeah.
01:19Postpartum.
01:20And from finding out that I was pregnant,
01:24I was still wrestling while pregnant.
01:26I didn't know.
01:27Didn't know.
01:29I was champion here in TNA while pregnant.
01:33Oh, my gosh.
01:35And I didn't know.
01:36I didn't know.
01:37That is crazy.
01:39And something that happens all too often in wrestling is...
01:42Yep.
01:43You get the belt, then you get a baby.
01:46Hell yeah.
01:47Yeah.
01:48Yeah.
01:49That's a lot.
01:50Naomi.
01:51Come on.
01:52Naomi, Becky, it happened to her as well.
01:53Yeah.
01:54It's a curse.
01:55It's a blessing and the curse.
01:56It's like, you get finally...
01:57Here.
01:58Here's your title.
02:00Here's another title.
02:01Here's another title.
02:03Well, and that happened.
02:06I even did like a kind of a death match.
02:09Oh, I remember.
02:10I remember.
02:11Yeah.
02:12Oh, my gosh.
02:13I was there.
02:14I was pregnant.
02:15Oh.
02:16That's crazy.
02:17My word.
02:18So crazy.
02:19I went through tubes and...
02:21Not tubes.
02:22Oh, my God.
02:23The light tubes.
02:24Yeah.
02:25The light tubes and the door.
02:26Yeah.
02:27Oh, my God.
02:28Crazy.
02:29So Ruby has been through everything.
02:30She's been champion.
02:31She's been in a death match.
02:32Yeah.
02:33Like, she is an accomplished professional wrestler.
02:36She is.
02:37And she's already made her way in the knockouts division.
02:41She has become a part of this locker room.
02:43Yeah.
02:44She's a staple.
02:45Yes.
02:46I think everybody comes to work now just to see her.
02:48Oh, my God.
02:49Yes.
02:50There was a booking that I took that I didn't bring Ruby.
02:53And everyone was like, where's Ruby?
02:54Where's the baby?
02:55Where's Ruby?
02:56Yeah.
02:57Like, especially AJ Francis.
02:58Literally, he didn't even talk to me.
02:59He was like...
03:00Oh, yeah.
03:01Where's Ruby?
03:02Where's Ruby Tuesday?
03:03The boys are...
03:04You would think it's the girls.
03:05I know, of course, the girls all...
03:06She has already all these aunties that love her so much.
03:09All the aunties.
03:10All the aunties.
03:11But it's the boys.
03:12You see all the baby fever on the boys' faces when Ruby is around.
03:16Yep, yep.
03:17It happens to all of them.
03:18Yeah, she gave baby fever to every single person.
03:21Every single person.
03:22It's crazy.
03:23But she says she's a good baby.
03:25She comes with us to every single show, every TNA loop.
03:31She's here.
03:32And she's a part of the family now.
03:35Yeah.
03:36Yeah.
03:37And it's so great to like...
03:38I think that's one of the things that's so awesome about the TNA locker room is like,
03:42we are not joking when we say it's a family atmosphere.
03:45Yeah, exactly.
03:46Like, when you and Myron are both busy, you know that you have people in the locker room.
03:50Hi!
03:51Here's Gia.
03:52Hi!
03:53It's literally what happens.
03:54Literally.
03:55But like, it's...
03:56You were asking about motherhood and how hard it was to transition.
04:00Like, it was very...
04:02I'm not gonna lie, it was hard.
04:03Sure.
04:04It was hard to go back to the ring, get back to like, to what I was doing previously and
04:09get like...
04:10It was hard.
04:11Yeah.
04:12But without Myron, I wouldn't be able to do it.
04:14Of course.
04:15And without the aunties, I wouldn't be able to do it.
04:18Of course.
04:19Yeah, that's why it's like a big, big family.
04:21And I'm really thankful.
04:23Yeah.
04:24Yeah.
04:25So how long did it take?
04:26Like, from like, time, like first back in the ring, postpartum, training...
04:31Training.
04:32...to back to TNA.
04:33How long was it?
04:34Two months postpartum, I was already in the ring.
04:37Wow.
04:38Doing just roles.
04:39Just roles.
04:40But still.
04:41One week postpartum, I was at the gym.
04:43Already.
04:44Oh!
04:45You are a crazy person.
04:47Yep.
04:48Like...
04:49I'm very thankful to the YMCA because I have childcare from six weeks up.
04:55And I was like, okay, we can just leave Ruby here with professionals for a little bit.
04:59Oh, that's great.
05:00It was really hard in the beginning, like just leaving her to random people.
05:03Oh, of course.
05:04But I was like, okay, I'm getting to it.
05:07She'll understand.
05:08Yeah.
05:09Yeah.
05:10But yeah, it was.
05:11One week gym, two months in ring starting to do roles.
05:15It was four months bumping.
05:17Okay.
05:18Seven months back at TNA.
05:20Wow.
05:21That's...
05:22I mean, that's a testament to your dedication, your hard work.
05:25Yeah.
05:26Like, that is not easy to do at all.
05:29And you have my utmost respect.
05:33And I know that Ruby has such, I mean, great parents.
05:37Of course, I've known Myron a long time.
05:39I've known you a long time.
05:41And she has a great home to grow up in.
05:43She's got a great role model in you.
05:45Cute.
05:46I think you're a great role model for everybody.
05:49Just, you have put so much into this business, into your craft.
05:53And you are just one of the people I admire most.
05:55You're going to make me cry.
05:56Oh.
05:57But I mean it.
05:58I mean it.
05:59I love you so much.
06:00I'm going to start crying now too.
06:01I love you so much.
06:02This is not Killer Kelly.
06:03No.
06:04We're killers.
06:05Come on now.
06:06Get it together.
06:07Get back in there here.
06:08Okay.
06:09All right.
06:10Before we get too emotional, Kelly, I just want to thank you once again for sitting down
06:13with me.
06:14We've only scratched the surface.
06:15Maybe next time we'll have a whole family reunion.
06:19We'll have everybody on.
06:21We'll have the whole fam.
06:22Kelly, thank you so much.
06:24Guys, this has been Around the Ring.
