Zelina Vega plans to win a title for her dad.
At Backlash, Zelina Vega battled Rhea Ripley in The Eradicator’s first defense of the SmackDown Women’s Championship. It was a home field advantage for Vega however, and it was a fun matchup on the show in Puerto Rico.
Speaking on Busted Open Radio, Vega stated that she thinks WWE wouldn’t want to throw her a bone out of sympathy, and she emphasized that she would want to earn it anyway.
“I’d like to think that maybe part of it has to do with the fact that they wouldn’t want to do it just to do it because of the day. I think either way, you’re gonna get, ‘Oh, they only gave it to her because it’s 9/11 and they wanted to throw her a bone after blah-blah-blah happened at MSG,’ or ‘They just gave it to her in Puerto Rico because she’s from there.’ I’d like to think that they’d want to give it to me because I deserve it. That’s what I’m looking for. I don’t want to be thrown a bone because this is a sympathy bone that you get on the day. As much as it would be literally everything I could have wanted, I want to get it because I deserve it,”
“I think a part of it definitely is feeling unfulfilled in this way. Because I started it because of him. I started because I made a promise, and even when I did get let go in 2020, I felt unfulfilled. I felt like I didn’t complete my promise, and I still don’t feel like I have until that’s complete. I think because I genuinely feel like it will happen, I still keep going. I have that, I have my husband, who supports me so much, and my family that do. I feel like I have so many reasons to look forward that I don’t feel like it’s complete yet. One of the things that happened that really made me feel like, ‘Wow, this is real’ was when Dwayne [Johnson] went to the 9/11 memorial with Simone. When they went there and took a picture and I said his name, knowing that that was his favorite wrestler, I felt like that was such a ‘wow’ moment, I’m like,’I have to keep doing this. I have to keep pushing forward.’ I know, it’s just something in me that just feels it has to. It has to. There’s no reason why, like why not?
Zelina Vega
As noted by Vega in the interview, her father tragically passed in the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
We will have to wait and see if Zelina will be able to one day honor her father as she wishes.
Ripley is now the Women’s World Champion, and continues to dominate the women’s wrestling roster on Monday Night RAW.
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