Former WWE star Nia Jax who is a former WWE Raw Women’s champion and a formal two times WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion recently revealed that she was given a chance to work in the women’s Royal Rumble match but she turned it down.
Nia Jax had been one of the most dominated female wrestler of WWE for a number of years. She won WWE RAW Women’s Championship one time and the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship two times in total. But she was shockingly released from WWE last year when the WWE went on a releasing spree during the covid-19 pandemic.
Nia Jax Reveals She Turned Down A Royal Rumble Spot
During Royal Rumble, WWE makes contact with many former WWE stars and legends to make surprise entrances for their Royal Rumble matches, especially for the women’s Royal Rumble match since WWE could never hold 30 wrestlers from their regular squad. This year was no different. WWE brought in many legends and former stars for the Women’s Royal Rumble.
A lot of stars were offered to compete in the Royal Rumble but they refused. For example, IInspiration were also offered to work in the Royal Rumble match but both of them refused. Another wrestler who refused to work in the Royal Rumble match was Nia Jax. The former raw Women’s champion remained out of action since her WWE release.
Nia Jax who is a former WWE Raw Women’s champion and a formal two times WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion recently spoke to Renee Paquette on her “The Sessions” podcast where she revealed that she was given a chance to work in the women’s Royal Rumble match but she turned it down. She said;
“I did. I was in the middle of trying to get my stuff back. I had a bunch of crap. You know how it is, you’re just shoving stuff in everybody’s boxes. I’m in the middle of getting my stuff back, they sent me a box and more than half was missing. I’m like, ‘Yo, what is going on?’ When I got the call, I thought it was about, ‘Where is my stuff?’
“It’s my homie in [Talent Relations]. ‘Hey, we’re just calling to see if you’d be interested in participating in the Royal Rumble.’ I started hysterically laughing. I thought it was my friend joking with me. ‘Oh, you’re hiliarious.’ ‘Actually, this is an official call.’ ‘Oh, fuck no, I’m not coming back.’ ‘We’d like to offer you this.’ I said, ‘first of all, I’m still under my 90 days. You’re still going to be paying me anyway, so you’re not offering me anything. No, I’m not coming back. Absolutely fucking not. Is this all it was?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Okay, bye.’
“That’s exactly what it was. They were accumulating a list, this is what I was told, they were accumulating a list and wanted to offer me the opportunity, accumulate a list that they send to Vince, then Vince goes through the list and says who he wants and who he doesn’t.
“I was like, ‘You’re asking me to be part of a list to go to the next step? Fuck no. How much more can you shit on me?’ ‘We didn’t want her to feel left out. If it got around that she didn’t get ask, we didn’t want her to feel left out.’ ‘Fuck you, that’s such bullshit.’ You needed people and I definitely [nixed] that.”
H/T to Fightful for the quotes