CJ Perry recently appeared on INSIGHT With Chris Van Vliet for an in-depth interview covering all things pro wrestling. During the discussion, Perry commented on why she didn’t join AEW at the same time Miro did:
“Well, when Miro first joined AEW, I was still in WWE. That was in 2020 and he started there September I think, and so I couldn’t. I was still in WWE and I had a very lucrative contract. I was on TV every week, so we both thought it made sense for me to stay. Then I finished my time a year later and Miro wanted me to come over to AEW and he was plugging me into the story. That’s how I got the name Hot and Flexible. I needed a little bit of a break. At the beginning. I wanted to be home for a little bit and I wanted to do things. I didn’t want to jump right back on the road and so I took a little bit, like about a year, and it was just trying to figure out the time, you know, like, Tony Khan has great things going on his show, and it’s just I had things going on and Miro had things and we just, it’s all about timing.”
On if she will wrestle again:
“Such an interesting question. So I want to be the best of all time. I want to be the best wrestling manager of all time. I want to be when people think of like, people often want to be managed by Paul Heyman because he is the best manager of all time right now. I want that spot and so I want people to be like, ‘I want CJ Perry to manage me.’ I would rather do that than try to become champion or fight for whatever championships and be the best hustler for those people to be champions and create a legacy and a name that way. I just feel that’s my calling. So if at some point I gotta fight some bitches in the ring, of course, I’ll fight some bitches in the ring.”
On working with The Rock:
“Oh, yeah, that was really funny. So we get a promo. Like, in the middle of the day, we were working Big Show at the time and this is when Miro was undefeated and he was a hero of the Russian Federation. So they give us this promo, it doesn’t make a lot of sense, and they’re like, look at 7:15,meet us back by this door and this bus and you’re gonna know what happens here. I’m learning it. We go back there and then they open the door and it’s Dwayne in there. I’m like, wait, what? They’re like, scratch that promo. So we had 45 minutes. It was maybe an hour and we had to learn a whole new thing, but it was great. It was a lot of fun.”
You can check out the complete interview below:
(h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription)
