Sasha Banks has got a lot of flak over the years for how she handles fan interactions but last month she gave members of KIPP AMP Middle School’s wrestling club the surprise of their lives when she turned up.
The Wrestling Club is run by Victor Perry, who previously said Banks wanted to visit the students. Students have watched Banks’ matches against Bianca Belair and Bayley as part of the club and the kids are huge fans of Sasha.
Speaking to Cultaholic, Perry explained how the appearance came together.
“They’ve seen a lot of Sasha matches. She’s one of my favorite wrestlers, so of course, I’m going to show them her matches. It wasn’t until I showed them Bayley and her, Hell in a Cell, that they loved the storyline. It was intense. They could relate to the storyline; your best friend turns on you. I posted a clip on Twitter of the kids reacting, it was during lunch and recess, so after, I went back to teaching. I kept seeing my phone light up throughout the day and was like, ‘what is going on here?’ I looked at my phone and it went viral. ‘This is crazy and kind of cool.’ I went home, played WWE 2K with my kids, and saw Mercedes Varnado had retweeted and then quote tweeted. ‘Is that Sasha?’ There are a lot of troll accounts that use wrestler’s names so I was like, ‘it’s probably a troll,’ but it wasn’t, it was her. She said she had to come to our school. ‘Is she serious? She saw the video, so that’s cool.’ I showed the kids the next day and they were like, ‘Mr. Perry, you have to bring her to our school.’ ‘I don’t have any connections, I don’t know if that can happen. We’re just going to go about our day. If she says she wants to come, if she had the time, she will.’ A couple months pass, I think it was a month and a half, I got a DM from a person from WWE and they were like, ‘Hey, WrestleMania is over, Sasha Banks saw this tweet and she wants to come to the school. How can we make this happen? We’ll be in New York in four weeks, let’s set up some meetings.’ We had a couple of meetings and it just happened. May 6, I’ll never forget it,”
Victor Perry to Cultaholic
It is reported that Sasha has been released from her WWE contract but will likely continue to do such appearances for fans of hers. What do you make of Sasha’s appearance for the middle school kids? Let us know in the comments section and on our social media pages!
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