In an exclusive for WrestlingNews.co, Steve Fall interviewed WWE Superstar/member of the LWO Zelina Vega. Vega is starting a podcast with Dakota Kai (note: subscribe to the podcast by clicking here) soon. We have a few transcribed highlights below. Scroll down to watch the entire interview.
Zelina Vega on who she wants to compete with in NXT:
“I love Jakara [Jackson] and I love everything that they’re doing right now, so it might be cool to mix it up kind of with them and see where it goes there. I mean, getting to see Ava Raine obviously and her group and striving there. It’s so cool for me to see, especially because I’ve known her since she was practically a baby, so it’s cool to see kind of where that development has gone. I don’t know. There are so many people that you can try and mix it up with. Even Bea Priestley. I’d love to get in the ring with her. I mean, she’s amazing. I think it’s good that it’s hard for me to choose because of the level of talent that’s there.”
Bray Wyatt told WWE to sign Zelina Vega after watching tryout match:
“I tried out for WWE back in, this was FCW in 2010. Obviously, when you’re getting there and people are just seeing you walking around, they’re like, okay, there’s another human, whatever. But when they see you in the ring, and they see you trying, or they see you cutting a promo right away, it was like, I had him on my side, and I was like, wow, that’s so cool to have him actually backing me. It was just such a cool feeling and just hearing all of the advice that I would get from him was really cool. I tweeted this too, but probably the coolest thing for me is seeing how much he cared as a person to person level. Like, he knew how badly I wanted to be in WWE. I had been trying since 2010. I didn’t get there until 2017.”
“When I came in for tryouts, like, one of the scariest things to do as an extra is to have a tryout match before SmackDown started. So every week we’d have like, I was traveling with them as a Rosebud just trying to like, hopefully one time, they’d be like, you know what, let’s just throw it in there. Like I just was hoping to get like, you know, a second look. I had a match and I remember at that point, if you got the attention of the boys, like the boys being like everybody in the locker room, people surrounding the ring, because people are off talking about their matches, they’re talking to producers, whatever, but the second I got in there, I remember Bray turning around and seeing me and sort of watching and he’s kind of there and he’s watching. I see him out of the corner of my eyes watching and he gets so into it that he started a Thea chant. Like he started cheering for me like during the match and it was right as I was hitting my comeback and like he was getting everybody else involved and everybody at that point was cheering for me. Then they started clapping after the match was done and he led that, like he led that whole thing.”
“Then I saw him walk up to who was in charge here at the time, talent relations, and he said, ‘She should be with us. That girl right there. She’s been working her ass off. She deserves to be with us.’ I was like, whoa, like Bray Wyatt just said that. Like that is the coolest freaking thing ever. Yes, it did take me some years after that, but just knowing that he was one of the people backing me, that he was one of the people supporting me, like that was just such a cool thing for me.”
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