Velvet Sky Reveals That Taz Came Up With ‘Let the Pigeons Loose’ by Accident, Discusses Learning Tommy Dreamer Will Induct Her Into the TNA Hall of Fame

During a recent interview with So Cal Val for WrestlingNews.co, former TNA Knockouts World Champion Velvet Sky discussed her career, Taz coming up with her iconic catchphrase by accident, being inducted into the TNA Hall of Fame, and more. Below are some highlights provided to us by WrestlingNews.co:

Sky on learning she’d be inducted by into the Hall of Fame by Tommy Dreamer: “I’m like, you work the worker. Workers never get worked, but we did. And it was like, such a wonderful surprise. He goes, ‘I had to tell you that you guys were doing some commercial shoot or some interview… just to get you to do the interview, to throw you off guard and not let you have any indication of this Hall of Fame induction.’ And I’m like, ‘Wow, you got me good.'”

On TNA’s initial rejection of the Beautiful People: “We initially pitched our name as Velvet Love Entertainment… and they hated it. One of the officials, I’m not gonna say who… He’s like, ‘We can’t put you two together. That’ll be career suicide.’… I get especially coming from the person that it came from, I kind of get in a way why it was kind of shot down, because TNA was pretty much a male-dominated company.”

Velvet Sky on the origin of the “Let the Pigeons Loose” catchphrase: “Taz screaming, ‘let the pigeons loose.’ We didn’t even know what that meant at the time. I remember that was the thing from Happy Days… but we don’t really know other than that, like, where it would have came from. Taz literally just said it one day. And people were like, ‘Wait, what did he just say?’ We were like, ‘What the hell does that mean?’… It just caught on like wildfire.”

On their unplanned heel turn after being booed as babyfaces: “When TNA first put Angelina and I together as The Beautiful People, they sent us out there as babyfaces… their mentality was the crowd of mostly men, they want to see happy, hot girls in short skirts. We were like, ‘Yee,’ skipping to the ring. And they booed us. And we were like, ‘Ooh, okay.’ And the office was like, ‘Ooh, yeah, no. Babyfaces, no. Y’all are heels.’… Once they said, heal, we were like, ‘Don’t worry. We got it.'”