Renee Young recently departed from WWE following SummerSlam of 2020 and felt like she accomplished everything possible with WWE.
Renee Young is currently married and expecting her first child with All Elite Wrestling star, Jon Moxley. Young and Moxley both met while working for WWE and their relationship continued after WWE as well.
Renee Young was asked a variety of questions by Chris Van Vliet.
One of the questions Renee was asked how she first met her husband:
“He was running down the hallway getting ready to go up and do The Shield entrance. This was me figuring out what wrestling twitter was like. I went, ‘Hey, people on the internet for some reason think we’re dating.’ He goes, ‘Well, it looks good on you, babe.’ I was like, ‘How dare you?’ I had no idea, but he always says that was the first time we interacted. We would always go back and forth and talk. I was always close to Summer Rae and she kind of came up the same as all The Shield boys. So, she was really close with all those guys. I would just hang out with them.”
Renee also commented on if she felt extra pressure from WWE due to the fact her husband went to the competing brand, AEW:
“It didn’t. It actually made my life easier, to be honest. One of the hardest parts was I started doing commentary when he came back from injury. He came back and was coming back as this heel character and calling my husband’s matches, while he’s this wacky heel, was a really hard spot to be in. Somedays, I would get the feedback of, ‘Just call it like a wrestling match. You don’t know him’, to ‘What’d you guys have for dinner for last night? What’d you guys talk about at home over the weekend?’ I had no idea how to navigate that. So, once he left, it was, ‘Oh well, at least I didn’t have to deal with that, anymore’. I kind of kept waiting to see if people would maybe treat me a little differently. Even if I’m just sitting in production meetings, every week, ‘Are they not going to want me in production meetings?’ Since I’m so privy and all of the information going on in WWE. I’m like, ‘Are they going to not want me to know this information, so I’m not leaking information on my husband or something?! But no, none of that ever really happened. If it did, it was a slow enough burn, that I never noticed it.”
Renee was asked if there was any possibility of her joining All Elite Wrestling:
“I don’t know. Maybe, I’ll wrestle Brandi and then, our kids are going to wrestle. Who knows. You look at AEW and I think everything they’re doing is fantastic. I’m not saying I wouldn’t do something there. I for sure would, if the right thing came up, but it’s not the thing that I’m chasing down. I think my time in WWE was so great and my time in wrestling has been so great, but I don’t want to have that be the only thing I do. I don’t want to pigeonhole myself as just being the wrestling girl. I’ll always have that in my wheelhouse and have that be a thing that I lean on, but I think there are so many things that I want to do. That I think just going right into a wrestling company would sort of taking away from of my whole purpose of wanting to walk away.”
Credit to Chris Van Vliet and a H/T to Wrestling Inc for the transcription.
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