WWE NXT star and the current WWE NXT Women’s champion Roxanne Perez who is also a former WWE NXT Women’s Tag Team Champion recently looked back at winning the Ring of Honor Women’s World Championship back in 2021.
Roxanne Perez started training for professional wrestling at a very young age of 13. She got her first breakthrough at the age of 16 when she got to work for the Reality of Wrestling promotion which is run by two times WWE Hall of Famer Booker T. She became famous under the ring name of Rok-C.
Roxanne Perez Recalls Winning ROH Women’s Championship
In 2021 she signed with Ring of Honor and on the same year she got to win the ROH Women’s World Championship. It was a very big success at such a young age. She worked in Ring Of Honor for nearly 1 year. In early 2022 she got the biggest call of her career as she signed a professional contract with the mighty WWE.
Upon signing with WWE she started working on the NXT which is the development territory of WWE. She had been treated as a very big deal from the very first day of joining WWE. On her early days, she teamed up with another upcoming young talent Cora Jade and went on to win the NXT Women’s Tag Team championships.
Later, Cora Jade turned heel and betrayed her own Tag Team partner. As a result, there were forced to vacate the women’s Tag Team championships. She had a feud with her former Tag Team partner after that. Next he went on to feud with Mandy Rose for the WWE NXT Women’s Championship. Recently she defeated Rose to win the NXT Women’s Tag Team Championship ending her epic 413 days’ reign.
Roxanne Perez who is also a former WWE NXT Women’s Tag Team Champion recently spoke to After The Bell with Corey Graves where she looked back at winning the Ring of Honor Women’s World Championship back in 2021. She said;
“So I think like when I was 10 years old, I said all right, I’m going to be in the WWE one day. I don’t know how I’m going to do it, but it’s going to happen. I found independent wrestling and I thought okay, so if I make a big enough name for myself on the independent scene, hopefully WWE will scoop me up.
“So that’s what I did, like literally everything that I started training when I was 14, and ever since then I was like, alright, I’m putting my foot on the gas pedal and I’m not looking back. I’m gonna do everything I can to make sure that WWE calls me. I don’t have to call WWE. They call me. So that’s what I did.”
“I think winning the Ring of Honor championship that was like, that was so surreal, just because of the fact that it made me realize that all of my dreams could truly be possible because obviously like my biggest dream was becoming a WWE Champion, but becoming the first ever Ring of Honor champion at 19 years old, it just clicked and I realized like wow, like all my wildest dreams are still possible.
“It honestly just kind of lit like a bigger fire in me to just keep going, keep going, just so that I could get to that end goal. I still have so many other goals here in the WWE, but just accomplishing that one is amazing.”
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