The entire two week conversation begins to wind down as Steve asks Dixie if there’s ever a moment when this business is not on her mind. She says that she loves the industry more than she ever thought she would when she started in 2002, and is proud of the words “professional wrestling.” Steve asks Dixie where she sees TNA in five years. She says that she’s currently working on quite a few deals that she can’t talk about on the show, but would love to come back and discuss those deals once they’ve been finalized.
Steve’s last question for the president of TNA Wrestling, Dixie Carter, relates to the infamous table bump wherein Bully Ray power bombed the 40+ year old female from the top rope. Dixie says that she broke her back, and received a hairline fracture. She describes the situation as “surreal” and “painful.” Dixie said she saw this as her one opportunity to show the fans and the roster that she respects what they do. “You want to know the real story,” Dixie asked Steve? “I folded in half and felt like something was terribly wrong. So if you watch back, you can see that I’m trying to straighten my body out because I can’t breathe.” She said that while the entire roster jumped around in the ring singing “Ding-dong the Witch is Dead,” she was concerned about who was going to check on her. She said that a referee eventually knelt down beside her to inquire if she was okay, and after “making him sweat” for twenty seconds, dug her nail into the palm of his hand. Dixie mentions that her husband was NOT present when she was put through the table, and says that is still a “bone of contention.”
Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
