Diva Dirt is excited to be the first to reveal that former TNA Knockout, Sojo Bolt aka Josie has signed with Wrestlicious. Josie, who has been working for OVW in recent months since her TNA departure, will make her Wrestlicious debut in a future episode of TakeDown.
Read the press release below:
LOS ANGELES, February 26, 2010—Josie Bynum, a former TNA Knockout who performed as Sojourner Bolt, has signed with Wrestlicious LLC and will make her in-ring debut on an upcoming Season One episode of Wrestlicious TakeDown.
Bynum was rated in the top 25 of the PWI “Female 50” for 2009. This brings the total number of Wrestlicious TakeDown performers in that ranking to 18, or more than one third.
“It’s true! Josie is coming to Wrestlicious,” said Bynum. “I am excited to help bring great women’s wrestling into the forefront of sports entertainment.”
“We are thrilled to welcome Josie to TakeDown,” said Wrestlicious Senior Producer Johnny Cafarella. “She is a terrific wrestler, has an awesome work ethic and knows the ropes of the wrestling business. She’ll be a great fit here.”
TakeDown premieres Monday, March 1 at 11 PM EST in the US on MavTV (http://www.mavtv.com) (Dish Network channel 361) and Bite TV (http://www.bite.ca) in Canada. America One Network (http://americaone.com) will air the TakeDown series on Saturdays at 11:30 PM EST beginning March 6.
In addition, the new series is syndicated to network affiliate and broadcast stations in selected markets. It also will be archived on Demand at www.bite.ca/wrestling and available online starting the first week of March.
Earlier this week Wrestlicious Founder Jay Vargas was asked what viewers can expect in the premiere episode of TakeDown:
“The wrestling will be stronger than most people think it will. It will be very, very character driven. In fact 2/3 of the show will be sketches and other character development stuff with about 1/3 being in ring wrestling. Even the commentary will be as much about describing the characters as describing the action,” Vargas told Melanie Rob of Diva Dirt. “Remember, TakeDown is an ACTION/COMEDY show, the Man Show meets Hee-Haw meets female wrestling. This is the premise it was sold as, an action/comedy with wrestling as the vehicle. And that’s how we’re delivering it.”
We will be speaking to Josie in the next few days for an exclusive interview. If you have any questions for her, please leave them in the comments.
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19 Comments
I have a question for Josie;
Will you still be wrestling in OVW?
Question for Josie: What really happened with your KO title shot and how do you think the Sojo Bolt character would have evolved?
That’s great. Wrestlicious looks like a lot of campy fun. Hope she has a good time there.
Any hints as to your gimmick, Josie?
yay another interview, cant wait
i’d love to know the origins behind the name sojournor bolt. i’m guessing the bolt is to do with usain, but what’s a sojournor?
What character will you be portraying in Wrestlicious ?
I would like to know her take on the roxxi and rhakkah conflict and what the feeling in the locker room was like when roxxi was released over it, even though she was a trained wrestler who gave a lot to the division and rhakkah a relitive newbie who was not the better wrestler was kept on.
ooh, how about some sort of confirmation about how exactly the ko matches are produced, considering that rumour of the divas doing their own matches and the kos having theirs put together for them?
I’ll bet she got Sojourner from Sojourner Truth, the famous activist. Anyway, very good signing for Wrestlicious. I love her Shimmer work.
Question for Josie: What has been her biggest challenge being a woman of color in the wrestling business?
I was never much impressed with her work in TNA, but who knows maybe I missed something.
My Question, is if Josie try out for the recent OVW WWE Try out that was held on Feb 22, and 23rd of this week and if so, what would happen if wwe wanted to sign her can they or does she have to stay with wrestlicious, Also how did the OVW diva do at the try outs
First, I just want to say that you were my favorite TNA Knockout. Your promo work won me over.
Anyway, I’d just like to know what companies might be involved in any future plans you may have.
Diva Dirt, do you guy who if Lacey Von Erich is still a part of wrestlelicious?
do if Lacey Von Erich is still a part of Wrestlicious?*
Damn I cannot type tonight!!!!
Do you know if Lacey Von Erich is still a part of wrestlicious? is what I meant to write!!!
Melanie Reply:
February 26th, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Lacey VE is still part of Wrestlicious and will be competing for both companies.
macho, if i remember correctly, she had a few months left on her contract when tna signed her, but whoever is in charge of wrestlicious terminated (not sure if that’s the right word) it so she could be part of tna.
To Sojo/Josie:
What do you think of the Bubba the love sponge / Awesome Kong situation?
Great for her.
A question: Not so long ago, there was a discussion on Diva Dirt about the low payments of the knockouts. Since you here one of them, you probably know the differences in the mens/womens/former-wwe talent paychecks. Is the difference as big as rumors say? As a women, what do you think of the differences between girls and guys payment?