ComicBook.com recently interviewed NXT Superstar, Kacy Catanzaro, ahead of their match on Wednesday Night for the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic which they got eliminated from that night.
Kacy had this to say when asked about her in-ring style:
“Oh, man. I mean, I think there’s so much of an evolution of your mindset when you’re thinking of what you can do in the ring. I know that for me coming in, I always try and be different because I didn’t come from a wrestling background. I didn’t come from the indies. So I’m like, ‘What can I bring here that’s different?’ and that’s the experience that I had when I wasn’t…when other people were wrestling on the indies, I was in gymnastics. I was in collegiate gymnastics doing that. I was on American Ninja Warrior on the obstacle course. So how can I bring that to be different and bring something new?’ I think that that’s where it comes in, kind of with my spider monkey stuff and with the handstands and with the flexibility and things like that, where it’s really cool, for example, in the Rumble, where I was able to do the handstand spot and the sit-up and everything. That was cool for me because Naomi and Kofi have always been inspirations. I’d watch them and I’m like, ‘Wow, that’s so different. I want to do something so different as well.’”
Kacy Catanzaro commented on the praise she gets for her spots in the Royal Rumble:
“To be able to look up to them and now have people when Rumble time of the year comes along and people are putting Kofi and Naomi and me in the same sentence, that’s crazy to me. You know what I mean? I’ve looked up to both of them and for people to now put all three of us, and I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, people are thinking of me in the same moment that they’re thinking of them.’ That is just a dream come true for me. I admire both of them so much, now both of them, Naomi and Kofi, come to me and say they liked my spot and that’s so cool and they want to do something. I’m like, wow, that’s a really cool feeling to feel like I’ve been able to make that impact on the wrestling world in a way that, when that time of year comes along, people think of that, I think that that’s really cool.”
Credit to ComicBooks.com and H/T to 411Mania for the transcription
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