Saraya has changed up her in-ring style.
AEW Star, Saraya, formerly known as Paige in WWE was recently cleared to wrestle after nearly five years of forced retirement due to neck injury. Now, her first match in AEW has officially been set. A match with Britt Baker at AEW Full Gear 2022 is on the docket for Saraya and after five years away, she knows she has to change her wrestling style to stay safe in the ring and be able to live out her dream as long as possible with this second chance. Speaking with Renee Paquette on The Sessions, Saraya talked about how she will be changing her style and says that attacks from behind would have to be extremely controlled and called ahead of time.
I wasn’t too crazy before when I wrestled, I would do a lot of mat work and that kind of stuff. I did love taking a bump. That was my favorite thing, to take a bump,” she said. “I’m not going to be bumping like crazy. There is going to be bumps, I can’t just go into a match with zero bumps. I’m fully aware of stuff I can’t do when it comes to anything from behind. That’s more of a PTSD thing too. ‘Please don’t do anything from behind.’ That’s something I absolutely would not tolerate. That would piss me off. Until I’m fully comfortable with something, don’t do anything from behind when I’m not aware of it. if it’s something you’re going to call, a forearm across the back and stuff, I’m talking about like a kick or something you could easily lose control over. That’s something I have to be cautious of. For the most part, the bumping, I’m doing some training and the bumping is different. I have to adjust how I did it because I was a person who would just fling my body back and it would be mostly neck. I have to learn how to flatback bump properly without creaming or killing myself. This match is a big moment. People haven’t seen me wrestle in five years and they’ve only seen me wrestle in a WWE capacity.
– Saraya via The Sessions
Saraya has also recently noted that she’d like to compete in some gimmick matches.
H/T Fightful
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