- Welcome back, y'all.
My next guest is an 11-year-old,
four-time national wrestling champion.
She regularly competes and wins against boys
including her own brother,
which, (laughs) man that's gotta feel great.
(audience laughing)
Please welcome Hailey, everybody.
(clapping) (audience cheering)
- Hi.
- Oh my gosh,
I have been just dying during the commercial break.
You are so cute.
And I love that you're like this incredible wrestler girl.
So how did you get into wrestling?
- So, it was at my brother's practice
and it was his first practice ever.
And I didn't really know about wrestling at this time.
And so I was sitting out there in the hallway
with my dad and the coach saw me sitting there
and asked if I wanted to wrestle?
And I looked at my dad and I asked, "Should I?"
And my dad said it's my choice.
So I said, yes, I got out there and I loved it.
And that's been an ever since thing.
Now I go to all these national tournaments
with all my friends and stuff and my wrestling club,
Steel Valley Renegades,
with my coaches, Dan Reeves and Waily Clibov.
And some of the States I go to are like
West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, Iowa.
And speaking about Iowa, I had this very big match
that it was against this whole Iowa team full of all boys.
And I had to wrestle one of the boys from their team.
And before the match, he thought like, Oh, I'm just a girl.
I'm not going to be any good.
And he was laughing and making fun of me before the match.
And then after the match, he sat there and we shook hands
and the match ended in 12 seconds and I pinned him.
- Yes! She said in 12 seconds. (laughs)
(audience applauds)
- The whole place just erupted and-
- Oh, my god. Who's laughing now, dude?
(audience laughing) Who's laughing now?
Now that must have felt incredible.
I feel incredible and I didn't do it.
(laughing)
That's amazing.
So what are your future goals?
- So I actually have two future goals
and my first one is to be an Olympian
and I want to like represent the USA and girls wrestling.
And my second one is to be a WWE superstar.
And I'm super excited for the WWE match this weekend
for Bianca Blair and Sasha Banks.
- Yeah, I think a lot of people are super stoked about it.
It's gonna be big.
Well, I happen to know someone in the WWE
who's heard all about your accomplishments
and how amazing you are.
Do you wanna meet them?
- Yeah.
- All right, well, she's a WWE star
and a whole lot of woman.
Say hi to WWE superstar, Bianca Belair!
(audience claps)
- Hi.
- Oh, my, gosh.
So Bianca, I am so, I feel like a proud,
I feel like I accomplished what she did and I didn't.
I mean, what do you think of Hailey's skills?
- Hailey, you are amazing.
You are an inspiration.
I just love hearing what you're doing.
You are standing true that you are standing in your truth.
You're being unapologetically, who you are.
You're going after your goals no matter what.
Even if you have a little boy laughing in your face
you're proving and showing that you are worthy.
And I call myself an EST, but you are an EST.
You have it.
You have an EST within yourself
and you're being the best version of yourself.
You're an inspiration to me
and just know that you are re representation
for so many other little girls out there
and you're breaking barriers.
And what you're doing is so important.
Keep doing what you're doing because it's amazing.
And I'm so proud of you.
And if you're already being EST now in breaking barriers
now I know that you're going to be in WWE one day.
Just keep doing what you're doing.
- Oh my, gosh. - Thank you.
- Oh, this is so fun.
(audience clapping)
I love this show always.
So wait so Bianca,
you have something else you want to tell Haley, right?
- I do Hailey, first of all, I would love to stay
in touch with you and just
be there along your journey with what you're doing.
And I also want to invite you
to a show whenever we're in your area.
We have tickets just for you.
And I would love to meet you in person
whenever we're in town and were at a show.
And one more thing check your mailbox this week
because you're gonna be getting
a very special package personally from WWE and I.
So, I hope that puts a smile on your face
'cause you're putting a smile on my face.
(audience applauding) - Thank you.
- Oh my gosh, how does that sound Haley?
- Thank you so much.
- Oh, my god.
Haley I'm so proud of you.
Like I said, I don't even know we just met
but I'm so proud of you and what you're accomplishing
especially at such a young age, like Bianca said
imagine where you're gonna be?
When you have big dreams
but take it from one kid who came
from nothing who dreamed big, you can totally do it.
You are capable of all of it and more,
you have no idea what you're capable of,
even more so than you dream.
So I'm super proud of you.
I'm super proud of that 12 seconds
taking that boy down that was laughing.
And thank you so much, Bianca.
What an amazing thing it must feel like
to be an inspiration to these young girls
and how your life took its different paths and got you here.
It's just a really cool thing.
I'm super proud of you.
Wrestle Mania is this weekend, April 10th and 11th
at 8 Eastern five Pacific. (audience clapping)
And this year
for the first time it's streaming live on Peacock.