A former WWE star has issued a statement on social media after being fired by TNA Wrestling on Tuesday (March 25).
After almost 15 years in the company as a wrestler, producer, creative team member and eventually head of talent relations, TNA announced that they had fired Gail Kim, along with Ariel Shnerer, Rob Klingman and Michael Shewchenko.
Kim’s departure in particular was reportedly a “unanimously unpopular” decision, being met with “shock, disbelief and anger” from many TNA talents, according to Fightful Select.
With many fans speculating Kim’s future post-TNA, the former WWE Women’s Champion has taken to Instagram to share a statement regarding her TNA departure:
Kim wrote:
I Just wanted to say thank you to the fans, friends and especially my peers for all the support you have given me over the last few days. I’ve received such an enormous amount of love and it really has helped process this change for me.
More than anything I am grateful for all the years and opportunities I was given to help build something I always dreamed of. The KO division is and will always be my heart and all the women who were a part of it. Thanks to the incredibly hard working and passionate TNA talent & crew that I have had the pleasure of working with.
This will not end my passion or my love for wrestling and this is not the end of Gail Kim in the wrestling world. You don’t put in 17 years in one company and stop when you are this passionate.
I look forward to sharing my journey and am taking some time for myself and prepare for what’s ahead. Looking forward to the future.
THANK YOU 
and one last thought……. More women in leadership roles. Not less.
Kim first joined TNA in 2005 and spent three years with the company before returning to WWE in 2008.
While she won the Knockout’s Championship once during her first spell, it was her second stint in TNA that led to her becoming the company’s most decorated female star ever.
After rejoining TNA in 2011, Kim captured the Knockout’s Championship a further six times over the next six years, as well as the Knockout’s Tag Team Championships on one occasion with Madison Rayne.
In 2016 Kim became the first female inductee into the TNA Hall of Fame, and while she retired in 2018, her final match for the company came during TNA’s 1000th episode of iMPACT in September 2023.
We will provide more details on Kim’s TNA exit and future in pro wrestling as updates become available.
An AEW name has said he’d push for the company to sign Kim following her TNA firing – click here for full details.
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