Tammy Sytch: ‘I Didn’t Sell My HOF Ring, It Was A Work’

– Tammy Sytch recently appeared on the Wrestlingus Show (transcript via wrestlinginc.com), here are the highlights…

On The Paige Video Leak: “I did see those [videos] because people, of course, sent me links.” Sunny continued, “I saw them and it’s like do I feel bad for her? Yeah, I mean, but no in a way because she took it upon herself to take those pictures. Anybody who takes pictures like this or video of that, you’ve got to… you’re assuming the risk that it’s going to get out. I mean, normal people’s pictures get out, so if you’re a celebrity, you’ve got to expect this sooner or later.”

On Bailing Early on The WrestleMania 25 Battle Royal: “It was booked really poorly, as [are] a lot of things there. But I was all excited to do it, but I wasn’t thrilled to be in a match girls that I knew really didn’t know what they were doing. I was supposed to stay in till the ninth elimination, and I said, ‘there’s no way I’m staying in here this long with all these girls. No, I mean, back then, I watched some of them work and I’m like, ‘oh my God! They’re so clumsy somebody’s going to break my nose.’ So I was like, ‘the sooner, the better,’ so I was supposed to be eliminated ninth, and after we went over everything, I got with Victoria. I said, ‘can I start with you because I know you’re safe?’ I had to do a little something with Maryse and she almost broke my nose. She was just supposed to sell for me and instead, I see a foot coming at my face, so I was like, ‘what the hell are you even doing?’ She was just supposed to sell. A little something with Maryse, the Bellas, and then Beth Phoenix was supposed to toss me. So basically, I shortened it as quickly as I could and it was about the fourth or the fifth elimination. I went over to Beth. I said, ‘get me out of here. Please, just get me out of here.’ She goes, ‘already?’ and I went, ‘yes,’ so we went into our quick little sequence, so she could eliminate me. But at least I was happy to work with Beth and Victoria, two people I trusted and avoided getting a foot to the face by people like Maryse.”

On WWE’s Reaction to Her Porn Film & it Being a One Time Deal: “The company did not say one thing negative to me. I mean, I still talk to people in the company to this day about various things that I won’t discuss on here, but not once has anybody given my s–t, from the company. They’re not going to tell somebody, ‘you can’t do this and make a living to pay your bills’. I mean, nobody would do that. Before we even film that one, they were starting to throw ideas at me for another one. I’m like, ‘no, this is just a one-time thing for me. It’s not becoming my regular job.’ Do you know what I mean. To me, all it was was just a job, a payday. It’s not something I aspire to do. It’s not something I want to do full-time. It’s probably not something I ever want to do again. But it was a payday, just like everything else in the [pro] wrestling business, it was a payday. That’s all it was.”

On Passing on Playboy When She Was Younger: “Now, yeah. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. See, when it was offered to me, I was 23. I was very shy at the time. You wouldn’t know it from, like, bikini photos and lingerie layouts and stuff like that.” Sunny reflected, “as far as the Playboy thing, yeah, I was too young. I was too, believe it or not, I was too shy. I was a little bit too timid to do that. And it just wasn’t something that I was ready to do. When Vince told me about it, he brought me in for a meeting about it, into the office and it took me a whole five minutes to say ‘no, I can’t do this.’ Like, I didn’t even go home and think about it.”

On Not Actually Selling Her WWE Hall of Fame Ring: “Everything in this business and revolving around this business is a work. The whole ring thing, it was a publicity stunt thought of by me and Steven Hirsch from Vivid [Entertainment Group] just to get publicity for selling the movie. That was it. That was all it was. It was a publicity stunt we got TMZ to do because that’s the best way get anything out there to the media and that’s all it was. My ring is locked up in a safe in the next room right now.” Sunny added, “I don’t need to sell my ring to pay anything. That’s not how it works.”