Katie Arquette appears to be like again on her final 12 months in wrestling.
Final month, Professional Wrestling Illustrated launched its 2024 Girls’s 250 record, which honors the highest girls within the skilled wrestling trade. One of many names acknowledged this 12 months is “The Queen of the Silver Display” Katie Arquette.
Inside the respective analysis interval, Arquette solidified her fourth reign as IWC Girls’s Champion, whereas additionally constructing her identify in singles and tag staff competitors. Throughout a latest interview with WrestleZone’s Ella Jay, Arquette shared her response to inserting on the celebrated record at quantity 232.
“It meant so much to me,” Arquette mentioned. “I noticed it, and I used to be sort of bowled over as a result of I used to be like, ‘Wow, I lastly am on this pristine record.’ One thing in regards to the PWI, it reveals numerous acknowledgement. There’s numerous wrestlers that get missed or needs to be on that record too, however I really feel like it’s such a superb acknowledgment to wrestlers which are placing in all of the work.
“I really feel like this 12 months particularly has been my largest stride. And to see that recognition and all of the work that I had actually put in, it actually made me really feel like I used to be on the suitable path. So it was positively a very nice shock and reminder of why I’m doing this and the place I wish to be.”
Proudest Performances
In wanting again on her final 12 months in wrestling, Arquette was requested about her proudest performances each from a singles and tag staff standpoint. Singles-wise, Arquette pointed to a pair of battles with 17-year veteran Zoey Skye, one in all which passed off over the border in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
“[Zoey] and I’ve wrestled much more this 12 months, truly, so there’s been numerous enjoyable issues along with her as all the time, however we ended up doing a present in Ohio at Buckeye Championship Wrestling. It was a no disqualification match. So we murdered one another, and it was wonderful; it was positively fulfilling,” Arquette recalled. “However I feel other than that, we additionally wrestled at Greektown [Wrestling] in Canada. I feel that was her first time there. It blended so properly collectively. Her and I’ve nice chemistry within the ring. She’s one in all my favourite frenemies of all time.
“I feel that was a really rewarding match, as a result of not solely have we wrestled 1,000,000 occasions over collectively, however we all the time remind one another why we’re doing this and the way far we’ve come. I began wrestling her once I was solely 4 months into the enterprise, and she or he had been a few years my senior. So I feel it simply goes to indicate how a lot we push one another and the way a lot these matches actually imply.”
Inside the tag staff realm, Arquette has primarily wrestled alongside Derek Dillinger, an 11-year veteran of the enterprise. Collectively, Arquette and Dillinger make up the newest iteration of The Manufacturing.
“I feel one in all my favourite matches that I’ve had with Derek and I’d most likely be … Gabby [Forza] and Bulk Bronson. We wrestled them as soon as at AIW. It was the primary time that Derek and I had a tag match collectively the place we actually had the entire items in line,” Arquette mentioned. “I really feel like that was the primary of many, that that is solely going to get higher, and it has. So I feel that’s most likely my favourite tag match of the 12 months, as a result of it actually solidified the inspiration that we supposed to construct. And I we’ve performed that.”
Watch Ella’s full interview with Katie Arquette beneath:
