Mia Yim recently spoke on her own YouTube channel about the 2018 Mae Young Classic Tournament in WWE.
During the video, the women's wrestling veteran spoke about losing to Toni Storm in the tourney and how fans chanted "Please Sign Mia," as well as a moment featuring Shelton Benjamin that was cut.
Featured below are some of the highlights from the interview where she touches on these topics with her thoughts.
On losing to Toni Storm in the Mae Young Classic and the fans started chanting “Please Sign Mia”: "I love working Toni [Storm] and this is a match where I lose and when her hand gets raised, the chant, ‘[Please sign Mia]’ begins and like, I’ve known my role my whole career. I was always a good hand. If I needed to make someone look good, if I needed to guide somebody, I know that I can do that and I know what my role was and I was proud of it. But once the ‘[please sign Mia]’ chant started, I felt like I was finally seen. It was me in the ring and I was finally seen. Now I know I had friends; I had friends from New York and the DMV area to watch the Mae Young live so I know I had friends out in the crowd but it was just such a — I will — I keep saying this but it’s a feeling I will never forget that even in loss, in loss of this match, I felt like I won and it was just, ah… it was crazy but I didn’t think too much of it. I was very happy for that moment."
On how a moment featuring Shelton Benjamin was cut from broadcast after she defeated Allysin Kay in the Mae Young Classic: "Me and A.K. [Allysin Kay] killed it like we always do, and they [WWE] cut this part out but, after I won the match with A.K., they panned the camera to Shelton [Benjamin] and he has a look of disgust and disappointment and unhappiness and just popped everybody in the back. It was hilarious but, they didn’t keep it unfortunately. I thought it would’ve been cool but yeah, it was just really, really cool to just have everyone I love there."
Check out the complete interview at YouTube.com. H/T to POST Wrestling for transcribing the above quotes.
