Roxanne Perez has put together an impressive career resume' in the wrestling business after having only spent four years in the industry since her professional debut back in 2018.
The 21-year-old women's wrestling star reflected on her journey from her beginning stages as a pupil of Booker T's at his Reality Of Wrestling school in Houston, Texas, where she would go on to capture the ROW Diamonds Division Championship, to her current status in the profession as the reigning NXT Women's Champion, during an appearance on the "After The Bell With Corey Graves" podcast.
Featured below are some of the highlights from the interview where she touches on these topics with her thoughts and shares memories from some of these career highlights.
On what winning the ROH Women’s Championship in 2021 meant to her: “So I think like when I was 10 years old, I said all right, I’m going to be in the WWE one day. I don’t know how I’m going to do it, but it’s going to happen. I found independent wrestling and I thought okay, so if I make a big enough name for myself on the independent scene, hopefully WWE will scoop me up. So that’s what I did, like literally everything that I started training when I was 14, and ever since then I was like, alright, I’m putting my foot on the gas pedal and I’m not looking back. I’m gonna do everything I can to make sure that WWE calls me. I don’t have to call WWE. They call me. So that’s what I did. I think winning the Ring of Honor championship that was like, that was so surreal, just because of the fact that it made me realize that all of my dreams could truly be possible because obviously like my biggest dream was becoming a WWE Champion, but becoming the first ever Ring of Honor champion at 19 years old, it just clicked and I realized like wow, like all my wildest dreams are still possible. It honestly just kind of lit like a bigger fire in me to just keep going, keep going, just so that I could get to that end goal. I still have so many other goals here in the WWE, but just accomplishing that one is amazing.”
On being trained by two-time WWE Hall of Fame legend and current NXT commentator and ROW promoter Booker T: “When I was 16, I started traveling on a Greyhound to Houston to go train with Booker T. I think that helped me coming into WWE because at Booker T’s, it’s still in the independent scene, but it’s so different. He has the whole setup. He has where you’re working cameras, you’re working for TV, he has his YouTube channel. So like, I think starting at 16 years old helped so much coming here to WWE because I had to learn, alright, I gotta wrestle, but I gotta be wrestling for this camera and that camera and all of those little things.”
Check out the complete Roxanne Perez interview from the "After The Bell With Corey Graves" podcast by visiting Apple.com. H/T to WrestlingNews.co for transcribing the above quotes.
