Molly Holly on Getting Hired by WWE, Favorite WWE Moment, & Charlotte

WrestlingInc held a recent interview with Molly Holly discussing getting hired by the WWE, her favorite WWE career moment, and being impressed with Charlotte.

On the topic of getting hired by the WWE after leaving WCW, Holly stated she contacted Dean Malenko for help on getting a job in the WWE. She also credited Malenko for setting up a meeting with Jim Ross which lead to her getting a deal.

“They didn’t contact me, I contacted them,” Holly said. “[Someone] told me that they weren’t going to exercise the second year of my contract, so I called Dean Malenko, who is a mentor and a friend of mine, and I asked him, ‘I’m not staying on with the WCW, how do I get in with the WWF?’ And he said, ‘Come to a show, come backstage, and I will introduce you to Jim Ross.’ The show was actually in Atlanta, and the WCW actually already bought me a plane ticket to Atlanta, so I just took the ticket that Ted Turner bought me to go backstage to the WWF and I met with Jim Ross, and Jim Ross already had the heads up.”

While discussing more of her hiring, Holly stated she was not enthused at the plans WWE had for her start but was reassured by Jim Ross it would only be for a temporary time and act as a stepping stone for more opportunities.

“So we had a meeting, where he informed me, ‘We start out our girls as one of The Godfather’s ladies.’ I was like, ‘Oh, great. Yeah.’ And he was listing all the girls who went on to be famous as a result, and then he said that he’d like to offer me a developmental contract. And I said, ‘Yeah, that’s great,'” she said. “So I flew home and started making money right away – I was getting severance from WCW, and I was getting developmental guarantees from the WWF. The highlight of my career was sitting home and getting paid by two companies. But eventually, they sent me to Memphis to train with the likes of Bryan Danielson (Daniel Bryan), the Mean Street Posse, Victoria (Miss Kitty) – there was a whole group of us that trained there.”

On the topic of her favorite moment from her WWE career, Holly stated she has too many memorable moments to chose from not involving television but considers the on-screen stuff with Spike Dudley to be among her all-time favorite moments while in the WWE.

“I don’t know. A lot of my favorite moments didn’t have anything to do with being on TV. 49 states, 15 different countries – I mean, there’s so many awesome things that I thought, ‘wow, people save their whole life to go on vacation to Melbourne Australia, and I’m getting paid to be here.’ Or, Helsinki Finland. Or wherever these gigs took me. I would be the one who would skip the gym to go see the sites,” she said. “As far as my television career, I really enjoyed my character’s storyline with Spike Dudley. It was fun to have acting skits and the things that the fans could get involved with, get behind, root for. So my Disney romance with Spike Dudley was by far one of my favorite things in my time with the WWF.”

On the topic of WWE’s current generation of women wrestlers, Holly stated she is a huge fan of Charlotte and praised her athletic skills as a wrestler.

“Charlotte really impressed me when she started doing some gymnastics things,” she said. “These are things normally done by girls when they’re five-foot-one and eighty pounds. But the fact that she can do them and she’s so big is remarkable. I remember the first time I saw Brock Lesnar do this top-roll thing, and I was like, ‘What? Wow! But he’s huge!’ So that’s how I feel with Charlotte – she’s doing things that gravity is screaming, ‘Don’t do that!’ And she’s like, ‘F you gravity!’ So, she really blows my mind.”