Pan-Afrikan World Diaspora Champion Trish Adora recently appeared on an episode of the Wrestling Inc. Daily podcast, where she talked about the history behind the Pan-Afrikan World Diaspora Championship.
Trish Adora said:
“The Pan-Afrikan World Diaspora Championship, it was born out of necessity.” “It really started as a conversation me and one of my battle buddies had about 10 years ago coming up. We were deployed at the time, and we were just kind of talking about what we were going to be doing outside this. And I was like, ‘Yo, I think I’m gonna be a wrestler,’ and then he was kind of like, ‘Oh, okay, that’s interesting. I don’t know if I could do that,’ because we both like wrestling.”
“He’s like, ‘I don’t know if I’ll do that.’ He ended up getting his promoter’s license in DC. It started from a conversation 10 years ago. Two years ago, he showed me a design for the belt, and I was just like, ‘So we’re actually doing it? We’re actually doing it.’ I couldn’t believe it. It was just born out of necessity. We believe that there is a very important place among the ranks of very good professional wrestlers that the Black, Brown, LGBT community belongs there too. And I’m wielding this, and I’m defending this with honor against those people.”
Trish Adora then talked about which Attitude Era WWE Star inspired her to become a pro wrestler.
Trish Adora said:
“I think it’s important to be so upfront because representation is extremely important.” “When I was younger, I had five brothers. I was the only girl, and we’d be watching wrestling, but it just felt like something for them. It was like, the boys are watching that and I’m just kind of looking like, okay, this is cool. This is fun and interesting. One day, I saw Jacqueline, and I was like, oh, here we go. Alright, what’s she doing? What’s all this? What’s all this about?”
“Being able to see a Black woman be prominently featured and having these really interesting intergender matches, and always being taken so seriously too. Whenever she was in those arenas, they viewed it a certain way, and it was just really cool that she was able to do both. I thought that was so cool to see myself in that. As I start my career, I’m like, okay, maybe I can be that for someone else. I’m hoping I can. I’m hoping I can be that for lots of people.”
You can check out Trish Adora's comments in the video below:
