Ash By Elegance on “Getting Call To Come To TNA Saved My Life, Tommy Dreamer Saved My Career” and Her Announcement Stepping Away From In-Ring Wrestling

TNA Wrestling and Fight Network released a new Immersed documentary episode based on Ash By Elegance. This new documentary focused on Ash’s journey to TNA, winning the TNA Knockouts World Championship, and stepping away from her in-ring wrestling career.

One of the topics discussed included Ash’s thoughts about how getting the call to come to TNA saved her life and how TNA creative member Tommy Dreamer saved her wrestling career following her release from WWE.

Ash By Elegance – “And then, around the holidays, I was able to transition my mind into, okay, what’s next? And then I got the call that saved my life, and that was from Tommy Dreamer, and he said, ‘Kid, I’ve watched you. You were never given a fair shot,’ and he took me under his wing. Here I am, he saved my wrestling career.”

Tommy Dreamer – “I was very hands-on with Ash early, like I am with most talents when they come to TNA, and I’m there for a reason. I have to adapt them to a newer system.”

Dreamer also gave his thoughts about his reaction when Ash had called him and told him that she could no longer wrestle.

“It was one of those phone calls that, you know, when you get ‘em, they’re so early in the morning, right away you’re concerned, and she’s like, ‘I can’t wrestle anymore,’ and I was like, ‘What?’ Basically, tells me she’s no longer medically cleared to wrestle, and I could hear the heartbreak in her voice. She said she was really nervous and upset. Feeling that she had let me down and I was like, ‘You never let me down,’ and she reminded me so many times of, like, how real and powerful this thing called professional wrestling is because she’s going through some health stuff. But her biggest concern is representing the women’s division and being champion. But, there is a bigger picture.”

Ash gave her thoughts about her announcement to step away from her in-ring wrestling career.

“I thought winning that title was hard. This was the hardest thing I ever had to do in my career. Going out there and being vulnerable to the crowd, being vulnerable to myself… and I’m getting emotional now. That’s what I said when I knew TNA was a family and that locker room was a family and that’s what I’m gonna miss. I’m gonna miss that so, so much, and I will be at the front and center so each and every woman can feel what I felt tonight and the love and the support and the appreciation, and I think I left my legacy in the ring. Like I said, I don’t know what happens from here. But my home is here. My home is in TNA. Feels so weird to take that last step out of those ropes, and not have my title. I didn’t know a title meant so much, but that ring means so much more. The message doesn’t change. I said it in the start and I’m gonna say it now: Never give up.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com 1 & 2