Thekla comments on her current hiatus from wrestling and provides an update on her contract status.
Earlier this month, Thekla announced that she'd be taking some time off from STARDOM to get some rest and recharge her batteries. This announcement came just days after Giulia announced the dissolution of the Donna Del Mondo faction.
Many fans are expecting Thekla to be away from the promotion for a good while, as she wrestled for STARDOM on more than 100 occasions in 2023 alone.
While speaking to Lyric of SES Scoops for a new interview, Thekla said that she thought it would be a good idea to step away when she felt that Donna Del Mondo was coming to an end.
“Well, there's a few things. Definitely. You’ve seen the Stardom schedule, right? It's really extreme. I think Stardom did like 140 shows last year or something. I had more than a hundred matches, and I've been here for four years and I barely ever take time off. The Japanese girls are a little bit more used to it because they've got this crazy work ethic. I do too naturally but sometimes I get tired too. I haven't been home in one and a half years, so maybe I hope to make it back during that time. But doing a hundred or 110 matches a year kind of takes its toll, especially with the Stardom style. This is not WWE. You know how everybody's working and the way we're traveling too. And yeah, it's just your body starts to kind of....every match, you can feel it afterwards. So I was like, okay, I could feel Donna Del Mondo they might be coming to an end. And I quickly thought maybe that's a perfect time to just go away for a little while and also refill my creative tanks. Because what I'm going to start doing today is I'm going to start drawing my next gear set....I already have some stuff ready and my mom just sent me a box of new fabrics and some white fur, so I might be doing something in that direction. And I'm going to be painting a lot. So I've got an exhibition coming up in April. That's going to be in Tokyo. But I hope I can do it in Austria too. Also talking to some people in New York so I want to travel around. Depending on how much time I'm taking off, it's going to be me being in the studio, drawing, drawing, drawing.”
Later on in the interview, Thekla was asked about her current contract status with STARDOM. In response, the 'Toxic Spider' said that her contract is up soon before noting that she hasn't decided what she's going to do yet.
“My contract is up soon, so that too, I haven't decided yet what I'm going to do after that so we'll see. I'm definitely very interested in traveling a lot.”
Fightful Select recently reported on WWE's interest in former Donna Del Mondo member, Giulia. Learn more by clicking here.
Furthermore, fans can keep up with the latest STARDOM results by visiting Fightful's results section.
Special thanks to SES Scoops for the quote(s).
