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The previous Rok-C has made her official WWE NXT 2.0 debut.
Tonight’s NXT 2.0 episode featured a vignette that checked out how Roxanne Perez grew up watching WWE over time, and the way WWE was her escape when she felt like an outcast at school. Perez mentioned she knew in the future the digital world would flip into the actual world, and subsequent week she was taking that step into real-life.
Perez was then interviewed backstage by McKenzie Mitchell, about how nervous she was for subsequent week’s surreal debut. Perez was rapidly interrupted by Poisonous Attraction’s NXT Girls’s Champion Mandy Rose and NXT Girls’s Tag Group Champions Jacy Jayne and Gigi Dolin. They tried to intimidate the up & coming NXT Famous person, and Rose suggested her to not set her bar too excessive as a result of she’ll by no means get there. Jayne taunted Perez some extra and urged she transfer her debut as much as tonight’s present. Perez didn’t say sure or no, however mentioned she would determine one thing out. She then walked away to finish the phase.
As a substitute of Perez making her NXT 2.0 debut subsequent Tuesday, she ended up wrestling on tonight’s present and picked up a win over Jayne. The pretty quick match noticed Wendy Choo distract Poisonous Attraction on the large display, exhibiting them how she was destroying the Poisonous Lounge. Perez took benefit of the distraction and went on to hit a Code Crimson to Jayne for the pin.
Perez really made her WWE in-ring debut on final Friday’s NXT Stage Up episode, defeating Sloane Jacobs in singles motion. Perez additionally used the Code Crimson to defeat Jacobs in that match.
As seen within the video beneath, McKenzie Mitchell caught up with Perez after the match for her response. Perez talked about how she’s been working to get to WWE her entire life, and he or she’s put blood, sweat and tears into this enterprise since she was 13, simply so she might find yourself in WWE. Perez pointed to her “4/8/16” tattoo, the date of her first match, and mentioned moments like this are why she’s pushed all these years.
“I had my first win in my debut for WWE NXT, and it feels so loopy to say that,” she mentioned. “As a result of like I mentioned, I’ve wished this my whole life. That is all I’ve ever dreamed of, and now it’s actual.”
Perez additionally tweeted on tonight’s match and wrote, “It is a fever dream”
WWE’s Senior Director of Content material & Improvement Jeremy Borash was amongst those that congratulated Perez on tonight’s NXT 2.0 debut.
“[thumbs up emoji] Congrats in your @WWENXT debut @roxanne_wwe! #WWENXT,” Borash tweeted.
The 20 12 months outdated Perez beforehand skilled below WWE Corridor of Famer Booker T and his Actuality of Wrestling promotion/college. She turned the inaugural ROH World Girls’s Champion again in September at Loss of life Earlier than Dishonor XVIII, and held the strap for 119 days earlier than dropping it to Deonna Purrazzo. Perez was signed in the identical mid-March WWE Efficiency Middle Class that additionally featured Jacobs, Fallon Henley, Kiana James, Bianca Carelli, Troy Donovan, Channing Lauren, and others.
Keep tuned for extra on Perez in WWE. Beneath are a number of associated posts and pictures from tonight’s present, together with footage from Friday’s match for many who missed it:
.@roxanne_wwe makes her NXT 2.0 debut RIGHT NOW on #WWENXT! pic.twitter.com/XK1c02lLkU
— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) April 20, 2022
Welcome to NXT 2.0, @roxanne_wwe 🥀#WWENXT @jacyjaynewwe pic.twitter.com/xn6lhOxCRt
— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) April 20, 2022
Off a distraction from @therealestwendy, @roxanne_wwe picks up the win in her NXT 2.0 debut! #WWENXT pic.twitter.com/5pkXxCN36V
— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) April 20, 2022
.@therealestwendy has determined to do some redecorating in #ToxciAttraction‘s locker room. #WWENXT @jacyjaynewwe @WWE_MandyRose @gigidolin_wwe pic.twitter.com/1f5LULbpY4
— WWE (@WWE) April 20, 2022
After successful her debut match on #WWENXT 2.0, @roxanne_wwe displays on how she has labored for a second like tonight since she was 13 years outdated. 👏 pic.twitter.com/VTKegaAjlc
— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) April 20, 2022
The enemy of my enemy is my pal.
Congrats @roxanne_wwe! 😴
— Wendy Choo (@therealestwendy) April 20, 2022
👍 Congrats in your @WWENXT debut @roxanne_wwe! #WWENXT
— Jeremy Borash (@JeremyBorash) April 20, 2022
Congratulations @roxanne_wwe making her debut on USA Community on @WWENXT pic.twitter.com/Hnujmwlvq5
— Actuality of Wrestling (@TheOfficialROW) April 20, 2022
It is a fever dream
— roxanne (@roxanne_wwe) April 20, 2022
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