I can promise you this: I will be the greatest woman to ever enter WWE, and I will leave the greatest legacy that WWE has ever seen.
In all the years with WWE, I never really got to really establish the branding of The Showstopper as well as I would have liked to.
No WWE talent becomes a legend on their own.
When I came to WWE – I got signed when I was 23. When I was on ‘SmackDown’ roster, the main roster, I was 24. I wasn’t ready for those responsibilities. I wasn’t – I wasn’t seasoned enough as a wrestler, as an in-ring performer.
Most wrestling fans in WWE heard about Bulgaria after I showed up on the scene.
Instead of fantasizing about food, I’m fantasizing about the WWE championship.
For the most part, and even with Miz, the WWE superstars are so good to the fans and everything they do.
WWE is growing every day, every week, and every month.
I’ve had the opportunity to wrestle Daniel Bryan through several phases of his career, except for his time in WWE. What I remember is that he was great the first time I wrestled him, and he kept getting better every match afterward.
In a sense, I think the WWE Universe has become one of the greatest characters of the modern era.
It was a very real thing, not a storyline thing when Randy Orton didn’t want me to get to a certain point in WWE.
When I finally get the chance to say what I want, to talk about where we’re going from here on out, when my voice, my words, become the measuring stick for WWE, I think that’s the moment that’s going to reinvent our entire business.
I’m going to be an ambassador for WWE.
Baseball is called ‘America’s Pastime,’ but you could argue WWE and wrestling is very similar. We’ve been around since the carnival days. People want to be entertained. It’s obviously two different sports, but everyone appreciates the athleticism of another sport.
WWE and I have a long history, and I remember some very fun days back in the day.
I have all the accolades, all the experience, all the knowledge you could possibly want from a WWE number one draft pick.
It was my dream to become a WWE Diva.
The WWE is the be-all and end-all of sports entertainment. They just do things right.
I still feel like I am in my introductory period in terms of making my name in WWE so want to keep my head down and work hard. I would also love to have a match with Daniel Bryan.
When I left WWE, TNA offered me a deal. It was a sweet deal: ya sit at home the majority of the year. Just show up every now and then and make some money. That was a sweet deal for me; that was like a vacation.
My dad loved being a part of ‘Total Divas’ and sharing that special connection that we shared in having the same careers in WWE.
I’m out here for opportunity and championship and a belt that spells my name, but on a bigger stage, my bigger goal, my mindset is to completely eliminate any doubt in some of the minds that, ‘Hey I don’t want to take my dream to WWE. Where I’m from, what I believe in, it could cause any trouble.’
WWE is so huge, and they have to crank out so many hours of television, so they don’t have time to take the care and attention to detail for the entire roster.
One of the purposes of coming to WWE was to wrestle with Daniel Bryan.
All I can say is that WWE and its entire machinery has been nothing but a joy to work with. I’m not just saying that because I’m paid to or that I’m a member of the company. I have criticized WWE in the past, but I am still a big fan of the product.
That’s what we do in WWE: we tell stories.
To me, Roman Reigns was WWE’s version of Superman, and he was our locker room leader on ‘Raw.’
NXT is its own kind of animal, and you’re never quite sure how much of that transfers over into WWE and into Monday Night Raw.
With social media now, we kind of get that inside look at WWE Superstars’ lives.
It’s truly a new day ever since we graced the WWE Universe with our presence. Every time we come out there, you see us being funny, having fun, entertaining people and, of course, preaching the power of positivity. That’s what New Day is all about.
The WWE belt means nothing; it means absolutely nothing. They pass around that belt like a hot potato. I probably have a neighbor on my block who held that belt at one point. There is no prestige to that belt whatsoever.
I made good money at WWE and traveled the world and interacted with my fans, but I missed a lot of family time. That really hits me.
Toward the end of my career with WWE, I found myself in a comfort zone. Looking back at it now with a little more perspective, it was killing me.
I watched WWE as a child. I was a fan.
I would like to see Jay Lethal and Dalton Castle join the company. Both have made their name in Ring of Honor, and their addition can make WWE a very exciting place.
Fox is huge and for WWE to be on Fox, it’s an honor for us to be there.
When you’re in WWE, it’s a part of that contract signing, that grind. You’re on-call 24-7. That’s why you become the star that you are.
I think it’s fun to fantasize about the idea of NXT and ROH butting heads and seeing which one will do better, especially with WWE looking at ROH guys to hire.
Nobody thought Finn Balor would be in the WWE. Here I am.
My wife loves to tell me that I love to tell people, ‘Oh, I never thought WWE would sign me. I never thought I’d be on TV. I never thought I’d be a champion. I never thought any of those things were remotely possible.’
I was part of Evolve as they were beginning to make their name, and I was lucky enough to help it grow worldwide as WWE got involved.
As a kid, I loved watching it. I used to watch with my sisters and my brothers. We watched WWE all the time.
My favorite part of working with ‘Lucha Underground’ is learning more Lucha, combining that with my WWE psychology, and taking wrestling to a place we’ve never seen before in the evolution of wrestling.
A lot of people always say, ‘Oh, people down there in NXT’ or ‘Down there’ as if it’s… yeah, it’s like a farming system for WWE, but they’ve done such a great job over the years making their own brand.
When I joined the WWE, Dave ‘Fit’ Finley was our first agent that we worked with all the time and he brought in another form of aggression in me.
When I first got to WWE, people thought I was going to be fired within three months. No one liked me; no one wanted me there, whether it was the fans or the people backstage. I had to fight and fight and fight to earn my spot.
When I was 5 years old, I wanted to be a WWE superstar.
The joke we always say is that WWE doesn’t pay us to wrestle, they pay us to travel.
Returning to WWE before retiring is not a question of whether they want to or I want to return. Neither I hope nor want to return, nor do they expect me to return or want me to return.
I’ve been a Rusev Day fan since before there was a Rusev Day. I feel like I was the forerunner of it all. I saw something in him before the WWE universe saw it in him, back when they were booing us for being patriotic to our countries.
I’d love to face Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. I would love nothing more.
I’ve never dealt with really anything negative in the WWE as a whole, in the locker room, anything.
As strong, beautiful, powerful women like the WWE Divas are, we should always support each other and always uplift each other.
When you leave WWE, like, when I left, I was thinking, ‘Maybe I’ll take, like, a year off, and in that year, I’ll probably do a Marvel movie, maybe a couple of movies. I don’t know.’ And, obviously, completely unrealistic.
One of my goals is to become a WWE Hall of Famer.
In OVW, it was like a different world, pretty much. They had the talent ready to stay around for a while, with guys who weren’t over yet and guys who weren’t retiring yet. With FCW, WWE were a bit more hands-on with the writers.
You can’t do WWE forever; like, your body will just not hold up.
With the success of the TNA Knockouts, that’s when they started having their girls wrestle a lot more in WWE. I thought, ‘This is a perfect time for me to come in. They care about women’s wrestling.’ Sadly it was just not the case.
If I can be a positive Arab figure on such a large platform such as the WWE, and become some sort of an inspiration to an Arab kid in Lebanon, Egypt, or Jordan, then that’s amazing.
With the likes of Rey Mysterio back in WWE, I find myself watching him and feeling inspired and that I need to get better and get to that next level.
Most people aren’t familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.
Vince McMahon – he’s third generation, and his enormous empire, he ran it much like the territories. The buck stopped with him; he made the decisions. That’s how a company should be run. Feast or famine, right or wrong, the WWE is driven off his decision making and always has been.
I study entertainment and apply it to myself to one day become the greatest WWE superstar we have, and it’s a lot of work. So I write jokes and material every day… you have to keep people’s attention, one way or another.
In WWE, a gay person is usually portrayed like some sort of comedy act to be mocked and laughed at. The world’s not like that anymore.
I think I’m going to be successful in WWE.
