WWE star Sonya Deville had been working in the promotion for more than eight years and she is pretty much active throughout her career. She had a short career in the NXT before joining the main roster during the women’s revolution. She had an MMA background which somehow provided her with an extra advantage.
But throughout her career, she had mostly been treated as a jobber in WWE. In her long WWE career, she never got to win any championship. But she gets regular bookings, something that a lot of stars fail to get these days. Recently spoke to Maria Menounos’ “Heal Squad” podcast where she discussed how it felt to her being underrated in WWE;
Thriving in the Shadows: Top WWE Star Talks About Choosing Underrated Over Overrated
On the similarities between her character and The Miz’s: “Me and Mike [The Miz] talk a lot about the similarities in our characters and our careers. If you have a character that’s strong enough to stand on its own two feet without even, my character doesn’t even win, but she doesn’t need to because she can talk her way around it or talk her way out of it.
“So I take pride in that as a performer. Of course you want it. It’s gonna come. The way I look at it right now, I’m like, look at me without all of that for eight years. Imagine if you did put it on me. That’s how I look at it. The sky’s the limit, and I know that I’m capable.”
Sonya Deville Does Not Want To Be Called Overrated
On being underrated: “I’ve always said I’d rather be underrated than overrated, and I say that only because the fire that’s lit under my ass knowing that people may still doubt me or haven’t seen my full potential is what makes me…I’ve just chipped away. I’d rather be the little engine that could.”
“In MMA, they used to call me the comeback kid because I would always have a little bit of a slow start in tournaments and in fights, and then I would prevail in the end, someway, somehow. I think that translates to my life in general, I might be a slow start, I take be a longer path or a different path, but I think in the end, I’ll always prevail, and that’s the confidence I have with my life and in the universe.”
In spite of being extremely underrated, she is pretty much talented and she has proved many times that she could be quite entertaining if given the right opportunity. She is still pretty young and we believe she will not only win championships but BA a successful star in WWE too.
H/T – eWrestlingNews.com