Bianca Belair was recently interviewed by The New York Post and she was asked about a possible match with Sasha Banks for WrestleMania 37, and how she deals with the pressure of being a black athlete.
Bianca Belair had this to say about representing herself as a black athlete and the pressure that comes with that:
“I definitely feel this way because I have this platform and I could choose to not use my platform in that way. But I feel like that’s my responsibility because when I think about when I was a little girl when I looked up to Flo Jo (Florence Griffith Joyner) and Gail Devers and Dominique Dawes those were the people I saw myself in and I became a gymnast because of Dominique Dawes. I became a track athlete because of Flo Jo and Gail Devers. Because I did those things, I am where I am now. Because I saw myself in them I’m able to be who I am now. They helped me really navigate through life. They helped me find my place in this world and they did that for me. I have a platform now and I feel like the torch is being passed to me and that’s my responsibility. The same thing that they did for me, I want to do for other people.”
Belair also spoke about a potential match against Sasha Banks at WrestleMania 37:
“Just the thought of Sasha Banks and I having a match at WrestleMania gives me goosebumps. I’ve said this before, it’s not about feeding my ego, it’s so much bigger than just having a wrestling match. Just having two strong women whose characters stand for, you know we are alpha females. We want to empower women and having two females who stand for the exact same thing and two African-American women standing in the same ring that is top-level representation right there and that’s for women, that’s for black women. I just feel like anybody, whoever you are that right there is just inspiring and just the thought of it … That answer is the same thing, it’s a feeling that you can’t describe if I was ever to be in the ring with Sasha Banks at WrestleMania.”
Credit New York Post and H/T to 411Mania for the transcription.
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