Celeste Bonin credits her match with AJ Lee as the best of her career.
At the beginning of 2013, Celeste Bonin (Known as Kaitlyn at the time) fought and defeated Eve Torres to win her first and only WWE Divas Championship which she held for 153 days before losing it in May at Payback to her former tag team partner turned bitter rival, AJ Lee.
During an interview with the Developmentally Speaking podcast, Bonin spoke about how her match with AJ is one of the best matches of her career and how it was such a valuable moment in her life.
“When I did win the title, the heat or the hotness of it started to fade away and I didn’t really have anything super significant. I think I had a little bit of a storyline with Tamina, I loved wrestling her because she was really strong and physical and I loved our matches and we all had a bit of love and respect for each other. Once Eve was gone, it was her and Tamina that I was pretty much wrestling at the live events and stuff like that. It just kind of fizzled out a little bit. When AJ and I started having all of our feuds and storylines, it definitely picked back up but it was more towards the end of my title run. The match where I lost the title to AJ at the pay-per-view was the match of my career for many reasons. It was just so significant and a symbol of everything that I had gone through, everything I had worked through. To have that moment with her, we were really close and we had gone through a lot together, a lot behind closed doors, a lot of struggle. For us to have that match and for it to feel the way it felt and to have the outcome that it did, it was like a dream come true. It was the best match of my career. It’s funny, the best match of my career was losing a title but it was so significant, especially for her to be winning the title after her whole story and what wrestling was for her and the impact she had on the industry. It was so valuable, such a valuable moment in my life.”
The last time Bonin stepped in the ring was in 2019 when she wrestled a match at Gangrel’s Wrestling Asylum in Florida.
h/t to Fightful for the transcription.
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