WWE Women’s Champion Chelsea Green discussed her journey to becoming the Women’s Champion with Nicole from XTU Philadelphia.
Green said, “It has been surreal. I feel like the moment that I grabbed the title and pulled it down, and the crowd went nuts and kind of everything changed for me. It’s just been 13 years in the making. Thirteen years of blood, sweat, tears, of missing funerals and weddings and birthdays and all sorts of things. And it just it feels so good, because everything it was worth it.”
On the sacrifices she’s made in her career:
“Yeah, people do not realize like we are not like an NFL team or an NBA team, or an NHL team. We do not have an off-season, we work 365 days a year. We travel every single week, multiple times a week. We only get time off if we’re injured, which obviously that’s not great either. So you know, I have been doing this now for 13 years, and I truly — I’ve got very few days off in my career. It’s a lot of sacrifice. But like anything, if you if you love it, if you’re passionate about it, it doesn’t hurt so bad.”
On all the sacrifice being worth it:
“It does [feel rewarding to win the title]. And it truly does feel like everything happened at the perfect time in Minnesota, at SummerSlam with my my family ringside, my husband ringside. I could not have asked for a better full circle moment. If I were to close the book that is WWE, or that is professional wrestling or whatever it is, I would I would be so happy doing that today because of this moment.”
Green won the Interim Women’s Championship during WWE SummerSlam night two, marking her first world title in the company. However, she suffered a broken orbital bone during the 6-Woman Tag Team Match on Friday’s SmackDown. It is currently unclear how this injury will affect her reign moving forward.
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(H/T to 411Mania.com for transcribing the above quotes)
