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Dasha Gonzalez appeared on “AEW Unrestricted” this week to debate how she obtained into AEW, what her first backstage AEW interview was like, and messaging with The Rock.
Dasha on Billy Gunn serving to her get into AEW:
“I’ve identified Billy for, I’m prepared to say, 9 years now. He truly was certainly one of my coaches once I was in NXT.”
“He’s an unimaginable human being and he’s so educated in regards to the business and life usually, as a result of he’s been via a lot that he’s like my adopted work dad,” she stated.
“After I had gotten let go from WWE and he had discovered he’s like, ‘We’d like you.’ He was the pinnacle coach at AEW on the time. Once we had the Pay-Per-View in Daytona, which was Fyter Fest, he’s like, ‘Simply include me. Come to the again to allow them to see how superior you might be as a result of we’d like you’, and I’m eternally grateful for that.”
On conducting her first backstage interview for AEW:
“That is my time for redemption. Most individuals didn’t suppose I had a persona,” she stated.
“On the different place that I labored at, they thought I used to be a robotic. For those who ever went to a dwell occasion, otherwise you ever went to something, you noticed I used to be not a complete dud and I did have a persona. I simply was type of restrained and wasn’t allowed to be myself. So it was some of the refreshing issues as a result of the primary time I did an interview, it was a kind of issues the place I used to be like, ‘Okay, hey, I’m ready for the script.’ Guess what? There was no script.”
“So I used to be like, I can converse with the phrases I’ve within my mind? I can ask a logical query that this individual can articulate a solution to? It was superb as a result of I might really feel that there was a little bit little bit of hesitation as a result of this was a crew that solely noticed me fail on TV earlier than, in order that they have been placing a whole lot of belief in me. I’m like, I can do it. Simply belief me. I can do it. I obtained to go dwell and ask a query that got here up. It went via simply completely effective.”
On the Rock messaging her about her look on Titan Video games in 2020:
“Two or three months later, I obtained a message from him (The Rock) saying how proud he was of me and the way laborious I labored. I actually simply couldn’t consider that he would take day out of his day to ship me like a two minute message. That’s what sort of a rise up man The Rock is.”
“He thanked me for representing wrestling. I used to be simply so shocked. He stated ‘It’s so good to have any individual such as you representing the wrestling business and never giving up. It doesn’t matter who you might be or the place you come from. You gave it your all.’ I felt like I did it and it was good to see that he acknowledged that and everybody there acknowledged that, so I’m simply, even nonetheless to today, I’m so grateful for it.”
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