Insight into Wilde’s hiatus from wrestling.
Taylor Wilde was last in action during the summer of 2023 when she competed at an IMPACT Wrestling TV taping. She was partnered with KiLynn King as a part of The Coven for the latter portion of her latest run.
On the newest episode of her Wilde On podcast, she stated that wrestling is ‘on the shelf’ for her. She detailed personal reasons why. Wilde then shared that she had a neurological issue and had the thought that if it was connected to wrestling in any way, it was a sign to take a break.
Well actually, so wrestling is put on the shelf for me again. I went through a ton of sh*t. Again, I haven’t even publicly spoken about this so you’re like, you know, you’re pressing the right buttons here. But I went through a lot in my personal life. So like I said, I touched on custody battle, the divorce and my dad had a heart attack shortly thereafter and first responders did C.P.R. on him for almost an hour. He made it, but it was eight months in the hospital. He was in the ICU, he almost died a couple times, he got COVID, he had to have a tracheotomy and a partridge… But he’s home, he’s independently living. So that was beautiful. The custody battle, divorce got nastier in that time. Affected my work life, both wrestling and as a firefighter and then I moved in with my sister and my now-late brother-in-law during that time and basically, almost just a year to the day that my dad had a heart attack, my brother-in-law had a freak accident happen and passed at 37 years old and that left my 32 year old sister and my then-two-year-old niece without a dad and with everything I had already been through, I thought, you know what? I better take a break. I was gonna take a leave from firefighting and just do my podcast, just be on the road full-time but what people don’t know is when I came back to wrestling, I was bringing my son on the road with me full-time and that’s like two, 12-hour TV days with TNA and then I was doing my podcast, I was working full-time as a firefighter still and I think when I walked away from everything and I was just gonna focus on wrestling, my body pooped out on me and I had a neurological emergency that scared me enough that I thought, you know what? If this is any correlation to wrestling, then, that’s it for me so, I was gonna give wrestling my all this past year and after everything I’d been through, whether it was stress, whether it was the COVID vaccine, whether it was gonna happen to me anyways, my body gave out on me and so wrestling is on the shelf for me now.
As far as a comeback goes, she’s unsure. She is cleared to get back in the ring. Wilde added that she would’ve loved to have stayed involved with IMPACT/TNA in a non-wrestling role. Wilde went on to state that she wrote all of her material as a part of The Coven.
So what happened to me was so scary and so forever-changing I think that I’m still not — I have been medically cleared if I kind of ever changed my mind. But like, my life is not 100 percent yet. They take certain privileges away when these things happen to you and I think being a mom and recovering from all the emotional things that went on for two years, my life focus has changed. I think my self-worth always was wrapped up in producing; wrestling, doing a podcast, being a firefighter, being the best mom, doing, doing, doing and maybe not dealing with emotional pain kind of thing. Now that-that all got wiped from me, my happiness stems from having a family and I met the love of my life during this which makes no sense because that’s not when you’re supposed to meet your person. But I met this amazing guy and I just love family life and I would’ve loved to have stayed involved with IMPACT. Just because it may have been wrestling on the shelf, I would’ve loved to have been — I’d stay in a manager role. The Coven was my baby. People don’t know this, but I f*cking wrote that sh*t. Being a witch on-screen was everything I dreamed of in the 90s. The craft and grunge music and all that sh*t, that’s really who I was — am. Or producing backstage, participating creatively, commentary. I would’ve loved to have stayed, but, I guess just the way that company goes or right time, right place, it didn’t end up staying that way. So, I’m living in the world that I always am where it’s like, I don’t know. I retired at 25 and then I came back 10 years later. I don’t know.
During her latest run, Wilde and King captured the Knockouts World Tag Team Championships. They had a five-month reign before dropping the titles to M.K. Ultra (Masha Slamovich & Killer Kelly).
Wilde’s former partner KiLynn King is currently sidelined with a knee injury that is removing her from in-ring competition for nine-to-12 months.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Wilde On with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcriptions.
