Cassie Lee & Jessica McKay Reveal Origins Of 'The IInspiration'
The former IIconics speak out
Oct 26, 2021
Jessica McKay and Cassie Lee have revealed where they got the...err...inspiration for their new 'The IInspiration' tag-team name.
McKay and Lee debuted in IMPACT Wrestling at Bound For Glory 2021, winning the Knockouts Tag Team Championships from Decay, while using their new tag-team name for the first time as well.
Speaking on Busted Open Radio, Lee said: "We had a couple other ideas, but we just didn’t love it and we weren’t sure that it was really us. Jess and I pull a lot of our inspiration from pop culture and teen drama movies that we love. And one of them that we love is Bring It On.
"There’s a scene where they call themselves ‘Inspiration Leaders.’ And I was like ‘um, okay, I think that narrows it down. And I’ll put tto I’s in front of it because that just works.'”
Speaking about the growth it shows, McKay added; “I think it’s the perfect evolution, because The IIconics were somewhat seen as a comedy tag team. There’s nothing wrong with that, we loved doing that. But we never really– for a brief time, we got to show both sides of our competitiveness and comedy.
"But I feel like The IInspiration is taking that to a whole other level. We have full creative control from our outfits, from our hair and makeup, to our entrance music that we got professionally done. We have a music video dropping. We’ve gone all out and created this whole world for The IInspiration. And I’m so in love with it, and I am so excited for people to see what we’ve come up with. Because it really is the evolution of The IIconics."
H/T Wrestle Inc.
