Nia Jax Didn’t Expect To Win Women’s Championship At WrestleMania Due To How Often WWE Plans Change

Nia Jax was surprised that plans did not change prior to WrestleMania 34.

At WrestleMania 34, Nia Jax would win her first singles championship in the WWE when she defeated Alexa Bliss for the RAW Women’s Championship.

Speaking on the Wives of Wrestling podcast, Nia Jax said she enjoyed the story going into that match and being able to collaborate with one of her best friends in Alexa Bliss and also mentioned her doubts about the match coming together.

“Well, it was really cool. Because it was something that Lexi and I, we were able to collaborate together on it. It was so funny, because she would get so evil, and people were like, ‘How dare they make fun of—’ and if anybody knows Vince, it’s like Vince loves to take the obvious and expand it,” said Jax. “There was a promo where they were making — Mickie James and [Alexa Bliss] were just making fun of the way I looked and my size and people just went nuts on Twitter. So to me, it was like, making it more real made it better with everybody. People were like, ‘Fuck Alexa.’ They were really buying me and it was like the only time anybody was fucking behind me in the company, but they were really behind me.

It was such a cool story because I have a niece and she’s a tall girl,” Nia Jax continued. “She’s taller than everybody. You know, she looks just like me. I’m like, ‘Oh, man, she’s gonna be able to grow up and be like, ‘My aunt was a badass like she got. She looks so good. She won that title, she was a champ, and she beat her bully.’ It was a super cool thing, because not only did I get to do that for my own family, but I saw so many girls. I met so many girls, I talked to so many women about how that really helped them in their own personal life. So it was just — especially winning it. I didn’t think I would win. At that point. I never really won anything and it’d always be like, ‘Nah, I’m gonna put this person over now,’ like cool, whatever. But then they were like, ‘You’re actually like getting the title. ‘Like, yeah, right. I’ll believe it the night of when they actually — because shit changes all the time.”

Nia Jax to Wives Of Wrestling

Of course, the match would end up happening, with Jax defeating Bliss for the RAW Women’s Championship on the grandest stage of them all.

H/T Fightful for transcription

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