Alexa Bliss and Charlotte Aptitude are two of essentially the most completed WWE superstars in ladies’s wrestling historical past. In the identical spirit of Mick Foley and The Rock, regardless of being polar opposites, they’ve additionally discovered success as an unlikely tag staff. This dynamic duo of frenemies received the Girls’s Tag Crew Champions at SummerSlam final weekend.
Including to the momentous event of successful gold in entrance of MetLife Stadium was having her daughter, Hendrix Rouge, who she shares with husband Ryan Cabrera, there. Bliss stepped away from the ring for 2 years earlier than returning to WWE in February on the Royal Rumble. Since then, the “5 Ft of Fury” labored to get again within the combine. Working with Aptitude has given her a brand new function onscreen.
Right here, Bliss opens up about teaming with “The Queen,” her WWE comeback, and extra.
It has been enjoyable to see you and Charlotte collectively. How did that come about?
Alexa Bliss: It took place very randomly, nevertheless it has been a lot enjoyable. It’s enjoyable to see a unique aspect of each of us. We’re simply on the market having enjoyable and attempting what works and seeing what doesn’t. It has simply been displaying a aspect of Charlotte that individuals don’t usually get to see.
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You snapped a photograph collectively from the theme parks the opposite day. Inform me about what it’s prefer to spend time exterior the ring and construct that bond additional.
We did the Mario Kart journey and Jurassic Park journey and The Mummy journey [at Universal Studios]. We have been in California. We additionally did an interview at Knott’s Berry Farms with the rollercoaster there, which was a whole lot of enjoyable. It was a complete theme park bouncing round. We simply have enjoyable.
Talking of theme parks, it was simply introduced {that a} Wyatt Sicks home might be a part of its Halloween Horror Nights this 12 months. You shared a particular friendship with the late Bray Wyatt (Windham Rotunda). What does it imply to you to see his legacy dwell on in these methods?
It’s unbelievable. I’m actually excited. It’s good to see Windham’s coronary heart proceed, particularly within the horror universe. This opens up a complete new vein for potential Wyatt followers, which I feel is superior. I’m actually pleased for Bray as his art work is continuous and will get to have its place within the horror world. I like that.
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Do you suppose WWE ought to have a everlasting attraction like a rollercoaster at a theme park?
100%. It could possibly be sort of just like the Spider-Man journey at Common the place it’s this complete sort of Enjoyable Home journey. That might be cool.
This run in WWE comes after you spent a while away after you had your daughter and actually embraced being a mother. Speak about what it has been prefer to get again within the swing of issues over time. I really feel now you’ve turn out to be extra snug once more in latest weeks.
Yeah, it was powerful at first as a result of when you might have a child, issues will not be the place you left them. My physique didn’t sit the way in which it used to. Coaching on the WWE Efficiency Heart, it took a very long time for me to get snug in my physique once more. It has been a whole lot of enjoyable as a result of now I’ve this new driving power of getting a toddler, and it has been one of the best.
Does the kid have a Lilly doll at dwelling?
She does. Really, we needed to get her one at Evolution as a result of she wouldn’t let the true one go. We needed to go to the store and really get her a Lilly doll as a result of she wouldn’t let that one go. She loves Lilly a lot. She has three Lilly dolls as a result of I maintain forgetting to pack her one after we journey. She takes a maintain of the true Lilly doll, so we now have to maintain bribing her with a merch Lilly so she lets go.
Your husband Rob is a busy pop star and in addition within the leisure enterprise. How is it discovering the steadiness and supporting one another as mother and father and husband and spouse when you handle your respective schedules?
It has been rather a lot, nevertheless it has been nice. My husband travels each weekend. I journey each weekend. We do have our buddy Joey, who travels with us.
Not your buddy Fatone, proper?
Not Fatone. He works for Disney and brings a bit of little bit of Disney magic wherever we go. It has been enjoyable to have that steadiness of getting this life whereas at work as a result of when she comes with me, it’s good. I really feel like then a bit of piece of dwelling has include me. It’s nice.
The panorama of girls’s wrestling has modified a lot from while you began to now. As a veteran, what are your ideas on the place we’re at this time limit for feminine expertise? What do you see for the long run?
Our roster is unbelievable, particularly NXT the place everyone seems to be so freakin’ proficient. It was actually cool to see the tag match we had with Sol Ruca and Zaria. It was actually enjoyable as a result of they’re simply tremendous proficient. It simply exhibits the division goes to be in nice fingers as a result of these ladies are all simply unbelievable.
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