The current WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion Zelina Vega who is also the winner of the first ever WWE Queen’s Crown tournament recently talked about her current stretch in WWE. Zelina won the first ever WWE Queen’s Crown tournament a number of months ago.
Zelina Vega mostly became famous among the professional wrestling fans during her works in the independent circuit promotions. She went by the name of Thea Trinidad. She also worked in TNA Wrestling for three years where she was known as a Rosita. She won the TNA Knockouts Tag Team championships one time during her TNA run. She was quite famous on the independent circuit as well.
WWE RAW – Zelina Vega Talks Her Recent Status In WWE
In 2016 she came to WWE for the first time in her career. At first she was portrayed as the manager of Andrade “Cien” Almas. It took her quite a time in WWE to become a wrestler. After spending two years on the NXT she came to the main roster for the first time in 2018. She participated in various matches against various big names. But in most cases she had to face failure. She was mostly portrayed as a jobber in WWE for the most part of her career.
But her push came out of nowhere. Since returning to WWE recently on Friday Night Smackdown she was constantly jobbing to different wrestlers. Meanwhile, the Queen’s Crown tournament was announced in which she participated.
Fans were rooting for Shayna Baszler or Doudrop to win the tournament, but it was quite surprising that Zelina won the whole thing. This victory was quite surprising, and nobody saw this coming. After her back to back wins over Doudrop it is quite clear that WWE is trying to push her. One of the main reasons behind this push has to be her amazing mic skill.
Zelina Vega who is also the winner of the first ever WWE Queen’s Crown tournament recently spoke to Peter Rosenberg on his ‘Cheap Heat’ podcast where she talked about her current stretch in WWE. She said;
“I feel like this is the shot that I’ve been waiting for and this is the thing that I need to go, ‘Okay, you’ve been wanting for something for so long. This is the time to show them that — prove them right. You know, they gave you this opportunity. Prove them right.’ You know, and I always say give me the ball.
“You know, if I drop it, screw me but if you don’t do it, then you won’t know and I just feel like now more than ever, I have a fire under my ass like I’ve never had before and you know, you kind of have to put things in perspective because yes, some people think it’s just a prop [championships] and I’ve never thought of it that way, why?
“Because I grew up a wrestling fan and I remember crying when I saw Lita won it and I — you have those emotions tied to it so, when I won the title, I remember seeing this video, I’m like — I saw this video of this girl and she’ll probably like — if she sees this, she’ll probably be like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe she’s talking about my video. I hate her so much.’ But, it’s of her literally weeping.
“[This was when Carmella and I won] the tag titles away from Nikki [A.S.H.] and Rhea [Ripley] because she loved Nikki and Rhea so much that she couldn’t believe that me and Carmella took it from them and we’re prancing around, jumping around the way we were and she was so angry.
“You just saw it in her face and she was recording herself for some reason and just put it on Twitter and she was just screaming and weeping and screaming, ‘No! I can’t believe that she did this’ and I’m like, ‘Okay, whether that was a good response or a bad response, it was a response. An emotional response that we got from you.’ That’s what this is all about and if I can pull that emotion from you, I’m doing my job.”
H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcript