Nia Jax has been an irresistible pressure throughout the girls’s division ever since returning to WWE in 2023. She capped off 2024 with an unbelievable run that included changing into the Queen of the Ring and successful the Girls’s Championship at SummerSlam.
The Whole Divas alum is in a brand new head area, which has translated to success as one of many firm’s prime villains. For Jax, this run was about benefiting from a second probability. She has actually finished that, even at first of this yr as one of many ultimate three within the Royal Rumble and ending with a report 9 eliminations.
Right here the 40-year-old opens up about her journey and different objectives she has set for herself.
One factor I’ve respect about you is the way you’ve actually upped your recreation in your complete presentation. What has been happening within the final yr or in order that has given you this newfound confidence?
Nia Jax: I don’t have a secret. I centered on myself, and removed the surface noise. I needed to make it possible for I’m the very best model of myself, health-wise, mentally sensible. I believe that’s what is displaying out proper now.
How is it sustaining the food regimen and exercise coaching routine while you’re on the highway?
Everybody has their very own means. I are likely to do various things. I intermittently quick. I discover that to be extra useful to me. I discover I’ve extra power and sleep higher.
What was it wish to have this nice WWE Girls’s Championship reign and long-term story unfold with Tiffany Stratton? It was a pleasant sluggish burn. There was a time not way back the place girls weren’t getting this form of time funding.
I really like that. With our fanbase, they love the motion and love watching a wrestling match, however they love sinking their enamel into a very good story. So, I’m honored that me and Tiffy have been in a position to painting a very good story the followers have liked. Clearly, she betrayed me, and I nonetheless need to get my lick again. I nonetheless need to get my title again, however I’m glad we had been in a position to carry a narrative out past simply a few weeks. It has been virtually a complete yr with what we had been doing. I believe that’s what followers relate to.
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I believe you’re having the very best matches of your profession. You’ve additionally actually embraced being this heel. Social media can be very merciless in that sense. How do you handle not letting that get in your head? That may’t be straightforward.
It’s not straightforward. I’m really actually blessed with a very robust household who’ve my again. I by no means put an excessive amount of weight into what different folks say about me. I do know who I’m, and I’m very assured in who I’m. I’m very liked at house. I really feel as if it’s a personality factor. They wish to hate on Nia Jax. They wish to say horrible issues about Nia Jax. That’s advantageous as a result of it’s a job I’m in and embrace it.
Describe your partnership with Candice LeRae and the way that took place?
She is without doubt one of the finest girls’s wrestlers on the earth. She doesn’t get sufficient flowers. I noticed a possibility to herald one of the proficient wrestlers on the earth. I assumed, “Why not?” I may study a lot from her. She has given me so many pointers. I watch her work and take notes and assume she is unbelievable.
You’ve been within the males’s Royal Rumble prior to now in addition to the ladies’s match. The parents at 2K have added intergender matches to the “WWE 2K25” online game. Do you assume that will likely be a factor in WWE in the future?
Why not? In fact. The world of WWE is something is feasible. Why not? Let’s do it. I liked getting within the ring with the boys and tussling with them. I don’t thoughts doing it once more. There are girls on the market like Rhea [Ripley] beating up on Dom [Mysterio]. We are able to positively have some actually good matches.
The [Samoan] dynasty has been so dominant in WWE, particularly the [Anoaʻi] bloodline. What’s it wish to see the following era together with [The Rock’s daughter] Ava [Simone Johnson] rising up as a performer earlier than your very eyes on NXT?
I’m so pleased with her. She has actually come into her personal. Who would have thought simply being the NXT normal supervisor she would simply shine in? I even stated to her the opposite day, “This yr has been so good for you.” I really feel her confidence has gotten larger. She is operating that present and with ease. I can’t wait to see the place it goes. I wish to see her up right here on the primary roster, probably doing an identical function as properly.
After the 2024 you had, what new objectives have you ever set for your self?
I positively wish to attempt to get my title again in opposition to Tiffy. I’d additionally love to return within the tag division and get these tag titles again. I believe Shayna Baszler and I had a terrific run throughout the COVID-era. I don’t assume the followers obtained to actually take pleasure in it. Presumably teaming up with Shayna Baszler once more could be enjoyable. I do know she is in one other faction proper now, however I wouldn’t thoughts stealing her for my very own private causes.
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