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Interview with WWF's LITA by Tommy Boyd of TalkSport Radio (1053 am) 3/01 Transcripted by Mark Chapell of SmashWrestling with permission from Tommy Boyd. In March 2001 Lita visited the UK, Tommy Boyd at talk sport grabbed the opportunity to speak the the WWF's most popular female wrestler, Tommy was kind enough to let SmashWrestling have a transcript of the interview before it was aired!

Well here it is. The transcript of the exclusive radio interview with Lita on Talksport 1093 am (UK) - www.talksport.net (webcast) with Tommy Boyd.

Before I go into the interview much Kudos goes to Tommy Boyd and the TalkSport team for letting SmashWrestling.com have this and for calling me up (Mark Chapell of smash) and playing this back to me, twice.

Interview starts off with Tommy Welcoming Lita to the UK

Tommy kicks in with asking her if she has been to the UK before.

Lita mentions that she has been to London before on the back of the last UK PPV. When she was 19 she flew into London as she had friends in Germany. It was a time when if a train came in she would just jump on it to see Europe. Goes onto say that the visits when promoting a PPV's are really a whistle stop.

Tommy makes a small crack about a lot of English people being like William Regal (our Goodwill Ambassador!)

Lita says that she's not bumped into anyone like Regal yet!

The conversation turns onto the topic of wrestling and how she got into the scene. Tommy mentions about her stay in Mexico where she first picked up on the wrestling trail.

Tommy asks, does she think that because of the bigger profile Lita and others are getting, does it make wrestling easier to break into?

Lita says that she went to Mexico because she knew of no other way to break into wrestling. When heading into Mexico she didn't know of any official courses. She went their blindly and just managed to get people to help her out. There was no school as such but just attended an informal crash course.

The conversation turns again, and for those that don't know, Lita used to be in a Band. Tommy asks, would she be interested in being in a band again?

Lita says wrestling takes up 100% of my time so it's not a priority any more. Goes on to say that she's not opposed to the idea but wrestling consumes her time.

Back to wrestling and the subject of RTC and Ivory is talked about. He asks how deep does the ivory thing run? And does she think that RTC will be over soon?

Lita answers, "with Ivory it's a toss between not worrying about her as she is too aggravating but that she does have the women's title which I would like".

Tommy asks the obvious question next on the list concerns the Hardy Boys. Asking about them and her present career direction, will she be going solo soon?

Lita puts the Hardys over and says that "I feel secure being with them". However she does enjoy the singles competition but still wants to be with the Hardy's.

Things move on again and Tommy puts over the fact that wrestling in the UK at its present rate of growth could soon be a realistic career path. Tommy asks Lita what kind of girl could become a wrestler

Lita talks about that when she was a teenager that she knew it was something she wanted to do and persistently followed that path. Say's that anything as a teenager is uncertain but wait until at least after you graduate high school. Advice offered is to consider going to a wrestling school to learn the basics. It then comes down to being persistent, outgoing and an independent go getter. It takes someone with an outgoing personality to take that extra step because if you don't then someone else will be willing to.

Tommy brings up the talk about parents being worried about children doing backyard wrestling and how the WWF puts across its message..

Lita mentions the WWFparents.com homepage, as the WWF try to take the responsible approach to kids safety. She talks a little about how much training that they have to do. "With any show its tempting to act like their heroes. Whether it's Batman jumping or Spiderman climbing off wall. It's the job of the parents to tell them you can't do what you see on television". Again puts over WWFparents.com

Tommy goes back to the start of Lita's career she is asked about the people that she would watch at the start of her career. People like Mankind?

Lita says she was a big watcher of WCW and remembers watching the likes of Flair and Piper remembers Rey Mysterio and Psycosis when they were just starting out

Tommy asks Lita who she likes to watch.

Lita - Always watches the Hardy's and does live near them. Others that she enjoys watching are Beniot, Hunter Rocky and Molly.

Finally Tommy moves on to take about Insurrection and the popularity of the WWF.

Lita puts over that it simply sold out within 90 minutes and talks a little about the big breakfast show which she recently appeared on, she also talks about when she met someone who queued for over a week to get tickets.

At the end of the interview Tommy mentions that she looks even better and fitter "as in physical stature" than the camera does for her on the TV

End of interview

As I said above I got to listen to this tape not long after and managed to talk to Tommy of Talksport Radio and he put across that she was a complete professional at all times and even spent a little time with her kids. It was a joy to interview her.

When I listened to the interview she came across as a consummate professional who appreciated being where she is in her career.

And for those of you that don't know it, visit lita's website at www.AmyDumas.net (which was actually designed by the team behind SmashWrestling!)

And don't forget to check out www.talksport.net every Saturday at 8pm UK time and 3pm Eastern time for the UK's top wrestling radio show with Tommy Boyd.

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