Tasha Steelz speaks about making history in IMPACT Wrestling and challenging for the Knockouts World Championship.

The "Boricua Badass" Tasha Steelz was interviewed by Denise Salcedo, during their conversation they covered numerous topics including her departure from tag team action, diving into singles action, making history at Hard To Kill and her upcoming title match at No Surrender.

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TASHA STEELZ ON KIERA HOGAN LEAVING AND GOING ON A SINGLES RUN IN IMPACT

Tasha Steelz was known as one half of the tag team duo "Fire 'N Flava" in which she brought the flava and her tag team partner Kiera Hogan brought the fire. Together the duo won the IMPACT Knockouts Tag Team Championship for the first time in eight years after the belts had been deactivated back in 2013. They went on to hold the belts for 99 days and ended up winning them again later that year and holding them for another 63 days. However, during the summer of 2021, a little over year after teaming, Kiera Hogan announced that she would be leaving IMPACT Wrestling. Hogan was written off of TV and later made her debut in AEW. This left Steelz without a tag team partner and changes the course of her run on IMPACT.

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The breakup of Fire N Flava on IMPACT Wrestling. 

“My thing immediately was I need to show these people that I am going straight to the top. I am not just gonna settle being a singles competitor and get singles matches every now and then. No. I am gonna show all this flava and go straight to the top. That was my initial thing coming into IMPACT. Being able to tag with Kiera was a bonus for me but now that I am going back as a singles competitor, it’s great, it shows that I get to showcase myself instead of sharing the spotlight a little bit with someone which I didn’t mind because Kiera and I helped each other out throughout that time, but now it’s about me and it’s about me showing who I am and why I am here. “

TASHA STEELZ SAYS ON WHAT IT MEANT FOR HER TO BE THE CHOSEN ONE TO WIN THE ULTIMATE X

Tasha Steelz Ultimate X Match Winner

Fast-forward to January 8th 2022, the Knockouts were given a major match up on IMPACT Wrestling's Hard To Kill pay-per-view. The show opened up with the first ever Knockouts Ultimate X match, where the winner would earn the number one contender spot for the IMPACT Knockouts World Championship.

Steelz ended up making history that night after defeating Alisha Edwards, Chelsea Green, Jordynne Grace, Lady Frost and Rosemary; thus earning her a title shot against Mickie James who currently holds the gold around her waist.

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“It means so much, it means that they are giving me this opportunity and are trusting me with the opportunity. I’ve improved so much within the last two years. Normally in any major company you see people like that, it doesn't happen for them that quick. It takes them time. So for me getting this opportunity and showing everyone in management backstage, not just management but all of the rest of the talent that hey ‘ I am ready to do this’ and they see that I am ready to do this and they are trusting me and they are cheering me on. And they are pushing me more. It just means the world to me and it lets me know that I can’t let these people down because they are counting on me to succeed and I am counting on myself to succeed."

While all the women took a beating in the Ultimate X match, Steelz says it was the "greatest thing ever."

“I wouldn’t trade it for the world, I enjoyed it. I am bruised, beaten, battered, but it was the greatest thing ever. I can’t complain, not once. I don’t care if my body still feels it 10 years from now. I wouldn't trade it because it was just the greatest thing ever and I am hoping there is more later for us down the line.”

TASHA STEELZ SAYS SHE WANTS TO HAVE A BETTER FEUD WITH MICKIE JAMES THAN DEONNA PURRAZZO

On February 19, 2022 at No Surrender taking place in New Orleans Lousiana; Steelz will have the opportunity of a lifetime when she challenges Mickie James for the Knockouts World Championship.

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“I never thought it would happen for me, when Jazz came to IMPACT and I was able to have a one-on-one with Jazz, I didn’t think that was gonna happen, so that was just the fangirl in me marking out….going into this match with Mickie James she is someone who has had a 20+ year career, has had so many championships under her belt. She had an amazing feud with Deonna that now I gotta make it even 10 times hotter. I have to prove that I definitely belong here, and that I definitely belong in the ring with someone of the likes of Mickie James, and Jazz, and I’ve gotten in the ring with Melina before in NWA. I have to prove myself and I don’t want to just have some average match, I am going to give Mickie James everything that is in me… at the end of the day somebody’s gotta win, somebody’s gotta lose and I hope that at the end I am standing over her with the Knockouts Championship in my hands.”

Not only would becoming Knockouts World Champion be a big deal for Steelz but she would be making history once again if she were to defeat James.

“It would mean that you now have the very first Afro-Latina Knockouts World Champion. And how would I celebrate? I am going straight to Puerto Rico and I am going to be right on the beach somewhere in old San Juan …. Because Boricua’s, we haven’t been on the map for so long, since Savio Vega, now you see us growing a lot more. You have Damian Priest that’s a champion, you have Mercedes Martinez doing her thing in AEW, you have Santana and Ortiz, their thing in AEW. So it's a lot of us that they really just kinda tucked under the radar a little bit but we’re pushing forward, we’re breaking those doors down, and we’re showing that Boricuas we have a lot of fight in us. And we’re made to be champions. When that moment happens I might cry, I am a thug though I am not supposed to cry, {laughs} you just never know, you’ll just have to see.

You can check out the full conversation with Denise Salcedo and Tasha Steelz below.