Mickie James: Hall Of Fame Induction, Trish Stratus, Nick Aldis, WWE Return, Hardcore Country

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Chris Van Vliet

Business, Sports, Mental Health, Wrestling, Health & Fitness, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Mickie James (@MickieJames) is a professional wrestler and TNA Hall of Famer. She sits down with Chris Van Vliet in Nashville, TN to discuss her recent Hall Of Fame induction at Bound For Glory, if one more match is possible, wrestling most of her career under her real name, her rivalry with Trish Stratus and the infamous spot during their WrestleMania 22 match, receiving her belongings in a trash bag after being released, if her husband Nick Aldis could return to the ring, and more!

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Flea!
0:05.0	Yeah.
0:06.0	It's inside with Chris Van Fleet.
0:19.0	It's so good to see you.
0:20.6	So good to see you too.
0:21.7	Congratulations. Thank you. Hall of Famer. Crazy. Look, we already knew you were a Hall of Famer, but now it's official. It's, yeah, it is official. It's crazy. It's crazy to even say Hall of Famer. How does it feel? I got to change it in my bio. Yeah. It feels amazing. I think it feel, it's like I'm super humbled and I think, you know, you spend your whole
0:40.8	career being trying to be humble and all that other stuff.
0:43.1	And it's like the one night you can kind of like pat yourself on the back.
0:45.9	But it's super uncomfortable to do it, you know.
0:49.5	But still, it's, it's always incredible.
0:52.7	I think when you're recognized for your contributions to the
0:57.7	company or to any business and for TNA to do that for me. I was incredibly honored, you know.
1:04.2	Well, for so long, people looked at the knockoutes division in TNA and they went, nobody has
1:09.5	women's wrestling like TNA.
1:12.2	You were a huge part of that.
1:13.1	Thank you.
1:17.9	I feel like TNA has always been one to give the knockouts a chance.
1:24.2	Like they really did believe in the women and recognize that the ratings, they were getting better ratings and they were doing all these things.
1:26.9	And also I think back to like even the first time I was there with Jeff and to be able to do all these first time ever like the first ever woman to do the clockwork orange house of fun match.
1:37.1	And we beat the crap out of each other.
1:38.9	And but that was unheard of at the time.
1:42.3	You know, it was just, it's been wild.
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