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We are in Knoxville, Tennessee, my hometown where I was born and raised.
So now, we're coming back to show love to my hometown,
865 lady fought for life 300 may.
>> How are you? >> How are you?
>> I'm good.
It's good to see you.
>> Good to see you too.
>> Well, for me, it's a huge honor to have her come to my office, but
more importantly, to come over to Austin East High School,
where she graduated from, it's just awesome.
I mean, she is a huge inspiration to everyone in Knox county.
We're so proud of her, everything that she's accomplished, she's accomplished so
much, but then she's still humble and she still wanna one of us, so
it just means the world to me.
>> Well, it's really cool to come back home and not just come back home,
the next one, I just come back home to the mayor but
the mayor being Glenn Jacobs who is King.
[LAUGH] >> Well, I am a WWE Hall of Famer,
I am from Knoxville.
So, it's kinda weird that I'm no longer the biggest WWE star from Knoxville.
Now, it's Bianca Belair, but it's really awesome.
Again just to see her have the major success that she's had,
it is an inspiration to our entire community.
So, it's not only seeing her and being proud of her because she's from our
community, and part of our community, but as a fellow professional, I appreciate
all the work that she put in and continues to put in to be at the top of her game.
I was asked to give you this, this is a resolution from the Tennessee State Senate
and it reads a resolution to honor Knoxville native Bianca.
>> Growing up in Knoxville, I never would have thought that I'll be back here.
Years later get a proclamation from Kane, Glen Jacobs the mayor,
in hearing him read off my accomplishments and how proud Knoxville is of me,
I started tearing up, just being honored and appreciate it from my hometown.
That means so much to me, this is dear and close to my heart and
it just makes my accomplishments mean so much more.
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We are at my alma mater, Austin East Magnet High School,
where I graduated in 2007.
It's homecoming week, so I'm super excited.
I get to go out there and celebrate with the students, let's go have a homecoming.
>> We have own who's Bianca Belair.
Our own, WWE SuperStar, Bianca Belair.
>> I see, It's so much greatness lives in us and
that same greatness lives in those hallways, and
that greatness lives in me and to go back to school and visit the students, and
see the excitement, and be excited with him and dance with him and hear the band
play the songs they used to play when I was in school and see the cheerleaders.
It means everything to me, to be inspiration to my high school, and
come back and be full circle, and
be a part of the homecoming that's what this is all about.
>> I know her as a student and she was amazing when she was a student.
So, I'm not at all surprised that she's the WWE superstar that she is but
she's always been a superstar.
It meant a lot for her to come home because anytime we can show that great
people great things, great accomplishments can come from 2800 and show our kids,
what really great things that are, so these are made of, It's always a pleasure,
it's always an honor.
>> Okay, let's look at the chart.
Look at the >> Love that I get to do without love,
the person that I love and he gets to come with me every step of the way and
there's moments like this that I love because I get to come back home,
I get to show you where I come from, I get to show the things that I've
accomplished, >> Like personal, I love seeing the fact
that she's come home, where she was raised, where her roots and
everything started, to come back after she's done so much to get the show and
experience that was there one pass on the message of, I came from the same walls,
I came from the same as at school, everything I accomplish, you can too.
Just please testimony, anybody can get to their home city.
>> Yeah, he wasn't there in those moments but bringing him back and
him getting to see, I feel, I get to share those moments with him and
I hope he's enjoying it just as much as me.
>> Man, I'm the luckiest man in the world, I tell her every day.
>> Bianca Belair from Knoxville, Tennessee,
I wouldn't be where I am today without my hometown.
I've been surrounded by my family with love and support inside my home and
outside my home.
My community has encouraged me and propelled me to where I am here today, and
I am proud to be in Knoxvillean 865 lady vol for life and 2800 made,
that's who I am, that's what i'm about and that's what i'll continue to be.
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