Sonny Kiss is not just a gimmick.
Sonny Kiss signed with AEW in 2019, and she competed on several of the company's first shows. Kiss made quite an impression by shaking her behind and using it in the ring.
Speaking on Busted Open Radio, Sonny's backside came up in the conversation, and she noted that she made quite an impression by incorporating it into her moveset. Kiss noted that, in hindsight, she wouldn't have used her butt so soon upon her arrival in AEW, as people still think she's just a gimmick. However, Kiss made it clear that she has much more to offer.
“If I knew that that was gonna be the response, I probably wouldn’t have done that as my first introduction to AEW. Because that was the first spot I did. That was with 10,000 people and everybody watching at home saw. So I probably wouldn’t have made that my first spot that the world has seen of Sonny Kiss. That’s the one thing I’ll take back from that. I would still do it, and I think I was supposed to have more offense with Brian Cage, but I think somehow things are going all over the place, and your stuff gets cut. It happens. I wouldn’t have had that as my first spot. When you’re a person like me, you can’t do certain things like that because then the world just sees you as that. Even to this day, people say, ‘Oh, you’re just a gimmick.’ No. You have not been watching my progression if you think that I’m just a gimmick. I am so much more than that. I’m very athletic, I’m very talented, I’m very unique. I have so much more to offer than just having a great ass. That was up to me too, that was on me. I needed to show that more. I needed to show that I was more of a spicy, aggressive wrestler. Like I said, that was my introduction so that’s was what the podcasters and other people wanted to talk about because that’s what I showed them," Kiss said.
During the interview, Kiss recalled learning that AEW wasn't renewing her contract at the end of August, and she commented on her departure from the company. Click here to see what she had to say.
Check out Kiss' statement about her departure from AEW here.
Kiss will make her House of Glory debut at HOG Fallout on September 15. More information is available here.
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