In an interview with FanSided, Bianca Belair spoke about which ladies’s star from NXT may be the subsequent to win the Uncooked and SmackDown Ladies’s Championship, and far more.
WrestleMania 38 is upon us, and one wrestler competing in a title match on the largest present of the yr is Bianca Belair. On Saturday, Apr. 2, the primary of the two-night occasion, Belair is difficult Becky Lynch for the Uncooked Ladies’s Championship. Earlier than competing for championships at WrestleMania, she started her skilled wrestling profession in NXT.
I spoke with Belair and requested her who she thinks would be the subsequent ladies’s star from NXT who will debut in the primary roster and win the Uncooked or SmackDown Ladies’s Championships.
“Raquel Gonzalez,” stated Belair. “I used to be a fan of her, we have been in NXT collectively. I keep in mind when she first got here in and I used to be like ‘I’m a fan of you, I such as you.’ I believe she’s nice within the ring. She’s simply an incredible expertise and he or she does superb feats of energy within the ring and he or she’s dominating, so I believe she’s the subsequent one.”
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Gonzalez made her in-ring, televised debut as Reina Gonzalez, within the inaugural Mae Younger Basic in 2017, dropping a gap spherical match to Nicole Savoy. However she made her official on-screen debut as Raquel Gonzalez at NXT TakeOver Portland in Feb. 2020, serving to Dakota Kai defeat Tegan Nox in a avenue battle. From there, her rise in NXT started.
At NXT Takeover WarGames in Dec. 2020, Gonzalez received the win for Crew Candice LeRae, pinning then-NXT Ladies’s Champion Io Shirai within the WarGames match. Gonzalez and Kai defeated Ember Moon and Shotzi Blackheart to win the first-ever Ladies’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Crew Basic at NXT TakeOver Vengeance Day in Feb. 2021, and have been finally named the inaugural NXT Ladies’s Tag Crew Champions. Then, at NXT TakeOver Stand and Ship in Apr. 2021, Gonzalez defeated Shirai to win the NXT Ladies’s Championship. She held the title till Halloween Havoc later that yr.
This weekend, a reunited Gonzalez and Kai are difficult Poisonous Attraction (Gigi Dolin and Jayce Jayne) for the NXT Ladies’s Tag Crew Championships at NXT TakeOver Stand and Ship 2022 on Saturday, Apr. 2 at 1:00 p.m. ET. It would happen previous to Night time One in every of WrestleMania 38.
Bianca Belair on performing in AT&T Stadium
Night time One in every of WrestleMania came about in Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla. with over 25,000 followers in attendance of their first reside present for the reason that pandemic began. That was when Belair main-evented and gained the SmackDown Ladies’s Championship by defeating Sasha Banks. At WrestleMania 38, it’s anticipated to be crammed to close capability at AT&T Stadium, which might seat over 100,000 for a wrestling occasion.
I requested Belair what it should really feel wish to compete within the gigantic soccer stadium for her second championship match to happen at WrestleMania.
“This would be the greatest crowd that I’ve ever carried out in entrance of, however that comes with it.” stated Belair. “It’s WrestleMania, you’re on the grandest stage of all of them, it’s to be anticipated. That’s how WWE is. We’re world, we’re massive. To be in AT&T Stadium in entrance of the WWE Universe, in entrance of hundreds of individuals, I’m going to get pleasure from it. I’m going to like it. I like our followers, I like our WWE Universe. I hope everybody comes out.
“Becky Lynch and I are going to steal the present, and I can’t wait to lift the Uncooked Ladies’s Championship over my head and rejoice with the universe as a result of they’re part of this second. They’ve been driving with me since SummerSlam. They’ve been part of this journey. So once I get my redemption and I come out on prime, they’ll be part of that success as properly.”
Bianca Belair on her pre-big match meal
Belair joined FanSided on behalf of SNICKERS, who’s the presenting accomplice for WrestleMania for the seventh-consecutive yr. Contemplating the commercials now we have seen with WWE stars needing to fulfill their starvation, I requested Belair what her go-to pre-match snack or meal is.
“For me, lots of people don’t consider me once I say this, however the night time earlier than my massive moments, I all the time eat pizza,” stated Belair. “It’s as a result of I’m very nervous and pizza is sort of a consolation meals and it makes me calm my nerves. I’m an individual who, I don’t begin working exhausting once I get the chance. I work exhausting yr spherical, so I’m very assured within the work that I’ve put within the weeks and days and months main up tot he occasion. So one night time of pizza shouldn’t be going to harm me.”
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For the seventh consecutive yr, SNICKERS will return to WWE’s WrestleMania, this yr becoming a member of forces with WWE 2K22 as presenting companions. SNICKERS and the WWE as soon as once more created some hilarious movies that includes a few of Bianca’s fellow WWE Superstars, Otis and Chad Gable, Completely satisfied Corbin and Madcap Moss and Sheamus, which is able to deliver extra enjoyable and smiles to WWE followers forward of WrestleMania. The movies present every of the superstars both feeling ‘confused’, ‘oblivious’ or ‘unfiltered’ offering a satisfying SNICKERS as an answer in every state of affairs. Followers can take a look at the movies on the WWE YouTube web page in addition to on TV screens throughout WrestleMania
