Current WWE star Sonya Deville who is currently working as an onscreen WWE non wrestling official personnel recently talked about her background before she joined the world of professional wrestling.
Sonya Deville started her career as an MMA fighter and in 2015 she attempted her lock in the WWE Tough Enough competition. Even though she failed to win the competition, WWE gave her a professional contract and she started working on the NXT as a wrestler.
Sonya Deville Reveals Her Background Before Joining WWE
In 2017 she came to the main roster of WWE for the first time in her career. At first she worked as a tag team alongside Mandy Rose and Paige. Together they were known as Absolution. Later after Paige was forced to take retirement from Professional wrestling, the other two duo started working as a tag team. In 2020, Deville stopped working as a wrestler and in early 2021 she returned to the WWE as an on screen official.
She mostly worked as a heel. Her recent feud with Naomi became quite famous among the WWE fan even though WWE could not do justice to one of their best feuds of the recent days. Deville is currently wrestling occasionally, there are rumours of her returning to action on a full time basis soon.
Sonya Deville who is currently working as an onscreen WWE non wrestling official personnel recently spoke to where she talked about her background before she joined the world of professional wrestling. She said;
“When I was 17, the day of my high school graduation, I went to South Florida to start fighting with American Top Team, one of the biggest MMA camps in the world. I told my dad I was going to college at Palm Beach State College, but that wasn’t true. I dropped out like three weeks later because I knew I wanted to be a fighter.
“I was a cocktail server, fighting MMA, and taking background roles on Burn Notice and Glades in Miami. I was just kind of pursuing fighting and acting, which were always my two dreams. And then one day I woke up and I was like, Okay, I’ve done all I can do in Miami, I need to go somewhere where there’s more acting and equal level of fight training.
“I picked New York and did that for a year. Then I was like, there’s got to be somewhere that’s even more prominent for acting and fighting, and I was like, oh, L.A, and so I saved up like five grand bartending. I drove my car across the country with one of my first girlfriends. I signed up for a fight gym.
“I started doing anything I could to get auditions and acting. I ended up hosting a UFC show on AfterBuzz TV, which is owned by Maria Menounos and her husband, Kevin. I just tried to do whatever I could to dive into both worlds equally. Then from there, Maria kind of got a call for her to do Tough Enough.
“She was like, ‘Oh no, I’m too old for this. I don’t want to go through all that.’ She’s going to kill me for saying that, but that’s what she said. She’s like, ‘I have the perfect girl. She’s 21, she’s fiery and passionate, she’s fighting MMA, and she’s cool’. She called me with the opportunity, and I was like, ‘let’s do it’.”
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