Zelina Vega gained her first singles championship in WWE on Friday’s SmackDown. She is the brand new Girls’s United States Champion, dethroning the inaugural champion Chelsea Inexperienced at 132 days. Vega is a former WWE Girls’s Tag Workforce Champion with Carmella.
Vega’s husband, Aleister Black, additionally made his return to WWE on Friday’s present.
After her win, she spoke within the locker room with Byron Saxton about what this win means to her.
“Do not forget that half after we had been speaking about earlier that I’m puzzled? I believe it’s much more now. I don’t even know what to say. I’m taking a look at it and it doesn’t really feel actual as a result of this was one thing that was simply in my goals and now it’s actual life and I’m holding it.
It’s type of simply loopy. So I’m like, I don’t know. I can’t imagine it’s actual. I can’t imagine I’m holding this proper now and saying that my title is within the historical past books because the second girls’s United States champion. That’s completely insane to me. I can’t wait to convey this residence to my mother, to my stepdad, my brothers, my grandmother, all people, my aunts. I can’t wait to only lastly convey residence singles gold to my household, it’s been a extremely wonderful night time for my family, so I’m very comfortable, very, very comfortable.”
Vega continues in regards to the legacy the lads’s United States Title has meant and now she feels part of the historical past.
“It’s one that you just at all times pray for, however you by no means actually know if it’s gonna occur. I believe listening to the phrases, you deserve it, as I used to be type of strolling up with this up the ramp, actually shocked me as a result of I felt like perhaps the followers had given up on me, truthfully. It’s been some time since I’ve been capable of not simply seize gold, however have a win. This felt like a win for me, however simply additionally a win for my buddies, my household, my fellow LWO members. I imply, Rey Mysterio is a former United States champion. I used to be like, I’ve seen him come again with this, and Eddie Guerrero was a former United States champion. That is simply historical past. I can’t imagine that I’m lastly part of it. So I’m so, so comfortable. I really feel like I’ve to pinch myself, truthfully, bro, as a result of it doesn’t appear actual.”
She wraps up the interview with the cliche however all vital saying of “by no means quit on your self.”
“I imply, the cliche is rarely cease, proper? However I believe it must be by no means quit on your self. As a result of I’ve come near that so many occasions in my life and there was at all times a turnaround. There’s at all times gonna be the moments the place you hit all-time low and then you definitely decide your self again up. So it’s by no means quit on your self as a result of if Zelina Vega can stand right here as United States Champion… I’ve been instructed that they had been too small, too fats, too brief, too skinny, not fairly sufficient. I’ve been instructed the whole lot on this planet as to why I shouldn’t be champion, however I lastly am.”
Vega has been wrestling for the reason that age of 17 and made her debut in 2010 at a WSU present. She made her TV debut for TNA in 2011 and would go on to turn out to be a TNA Knockouts Tag Workforce Champion with Sarita (Sarah Inventory).
