Woo okay.
>> Hey, don't you ever dim your light, don't ever dim your light.
>> [LAUGH] It's too bright.
>> Do you ever dim your light.
Don't ever say is too bright.
Shine your light.
>> [LAUGH] It's time to make some WrestleMania gear.
I'm intimidated, I've put it off for
a very long time because I kind of know what I wanna do.
My nails are dirty.
[LAUGH] I kind of know what I wanna do but
I don't know if I'm gonna be able to pull it off.
So I've been putting it off and putting it off, and now we're about to do it.
And it's April 3rd, it's Saturday, we're a week out from WrestleMania, so
I'm just now getting getting started on my gear.
So let's see what happens.
[MUSIC]
Okay, so now it is, what time is it?
It is 2:15 in the morning [LAUGH] and I'm just now getting to the pants.
So I've done the jacket and the top.
So the jacket and the top, I still have to bedazzle it.
Now I'm on the pants, it's 2:15 in the morning.
And we're making progress, we're getting there, but I'm tired.
I have my coffee that my husband made me, thanks Babe.
And yeah, but I'm excited.
I tried the jacket on already and it's a pretty nice.
I have to say I'm pretty excited.
I got really hyped with it in the mirror, I was dancing around in the mirror.
I don't wanna give it away, so yeah, just have to wait and see.
But back to the pants.
Sunday, April 4th?
I don't know what date it is, my mind is so scrambled.
I think it's the 4th,we're six days from Mania.
That's what it is, we're six days for Mania, I started on my gear last night.
It's getting there, you know, it's getting there.
If anybody wants a clue, it maybe the color black, pink,
silver, gold, purple, green, blue, yellow, orange, red,
lavender, baby blue, dark blue, royal blue, magenta.
Did I say green?
Might be one of those colors.
[LAUGH] No, but I finished well,
I sewed the top, the pants and the jacket.
And I have to say, I am loving,
loving how it's looking right now.
This is the part I have to do by hand,
I have to do everything by hand at this point.
I've sewn everything together and I'm loving how it's all coming together.
I was very intimidated by it, but it's coming together.
But everything's by hand right now, it's tedious,
like meticulous where it just takes forever.
But it's the part that makes everything so worth it.
This gear this year's about shining bright, I'm on the brightest.
This year's about shining bright.
I'm on the grandest stage of them all, WrestleMania.
I'm gonna shine, you know?
I mean, that spotlight I gotta shine right now to everybody, don't dim your light for
anybody.
There will be no dimming of any lights at this WrestleMania from Bianca Belair.
So, got a roll of rhinestones about ten of these.
And I'm tearing them and then we're gonna start sewing them down, so [SOUND].
[MUSIC]
Shine bright like a diamond.
So, today is say your ABCs and learn your alphabet baby,
because I'm cutting out letters [LAUGH] for my gear.
I'm working on the entrance piece now, so we'll see how this goes.
It is Monday, WrestleMania is Saturday.
Cutting out letters.
>> That's what I said, just thank you so much.
Because I'm 20 years old, but I still struggle with conflicts,
I just appreciate you a lot so thank you.
>> Okay, no thank you, that means a lot to me.
This is so cute.
You guys are making me smile, my cheeks hurt.
[LAUGH] You guys are the prettiest, you're the smartest.
>> I love you [INAUDIBLE] All right,
so working on my gear and it's getting there.
I was intimidated about it at first, but now it's coming together,
I'm really liking it, I'm loving it.
And I really wanna show everyone.
All these interviews I'm doing, everybody's asking, where's your gear,
where's your gear?
When are you gonna show everybody?
But I don't wanna give it away.
But it's coming together and I'm really excited.
And yeah, this year's theme is just.
I'm on the greatest stage of them all, so I'm in the spotlight.
I got this brother, I gotta shine.
So this year's theme of WrestleMania gear is I'm shining, shine.
Basically my gear is so big and elaborate I had to come outside to do it.
So I'm outside doing my gear and I got a little flower.
So, here we go.
We are just a few days out from WrestleMania,
and my feelings right now, I'm like all the above.
I start out as excited after the Royal Rumble, when I won the Royal Rumble.
I remember just being in the ring and just being happy that I won.
I was the last woman standing out of 30 women from
all 3 brands Raw, SmackDown, NXT and Legends.
And I remember just being so happy, and all this EST, EST,
I'm big, I'm tough, I'm strong.
All that went away, and I cried and I could only think of my mom and my daddy.
Then I looked and I saw the WrestleMania sign, that's when I was like, yeah,
I'm going to WrestleMania, it's crazy.
But ever since then I just felt like a little kid.
I've just been happy just on top of the world and giddy.
But in these last few days winding down to WrestleMania, I'm starting to get nervous.
I'm so nervous, I am very nervous, I'm anxious.
I wanted to just get here, just be here, I want to be in a room,
sitting across from Sasha Banks.
I wanna be walking out and hearing the crowd and seeing the crowd and
my parents there.
But I am very nervous.
I keep reminding myself that that's a good thing, you nervous you care.
And as long as you're not scared, I keep trying to fight back being scared.
[LAUGH] I just wanna show up and show out.
I just, I'm on the grandest stage of them all.
This is what we all dream of is to get to WrestleMania and
have a WrestleMania match.
And fingers crossed maybe hopefully maybe win there.
Finally almost finished with my gear,
the theme is to shine bright and shine the brightest.
I'm on the greatest stage of them all, just over the top.
I know I like doing too much, like I love doing so much.
I don't think there's a such thing as doing too much, but
I just like doing too much.
And that's what I'm doing at WrestleMania, I'm doing too much.
But it's not that I'm doing too much, y'all just ain't doing enough.
[LAUGH] That's my motto.
And yeah, I've been staying up every night doing this gear.
As you can see I've probably got bags under my eyes.
So I gotta get some sleep cuz I gotta come correct,
I'm getting in the ring with Sasha Banks.
I gotta come correct, but I make my gear all the time.
When I got to WrestleMania, I'm like this is when it matters,
this is when it counts.
I can't go get somebody to make my gear now.
None of the other times matter if I don't make my gear for WrestleMania.
So hopefully it comes out good.
And everybody's talking about the match instead of
talking about how bad my gear is, cuz hopefully it will be good.
And woo, I mean, I'm just I'm excited.
I've been working out every day, I took yesterday off.
See I'm big and strong, I'll be big and strong.
Working out every single day.
Call myself the strongest, I look like the strongest,
I gotta perform like I'm the strongest.
Cuz that's what I'm gonna have to do to take down Sasha Banks.
And yeah I'm just tired, but good tired.
Been doing media, I got to do a meet and
greet where I got to meet 50 fans.
And I love doing those virtual meet and greets,
just because it really brings what I do a purpose.
I want to become SmackDown Women's champion.
I wanna become Raw Women's Champion.
I wanna become NXT Women's Champion.
I want to be champion all over everywhere.
But, your time comes and then sometimes your time goes.
And your time comes back and then it goes again.
But what doesn't come and go is how you make people feel, and
the impact you have on people's lives.
When I think about my role models growing up, the impact they had on my life,
it just changed the whole trajectory of my life.
And knowing that I'm on this platform, knowing that I can
impact people's lives and it affects where they might end
up because of how I might inspire them, that's what sticks.
That's what doesn't go away.
So I'm just here to inspire, and hopefully I'm doing it right.
And when I get to meet everyone the meet and greets,
I get to hear their stories and connect with them.
That's what matters, that's my why.
My husband has been, let me tell you about my husband.
My husband doesn't have a WrestleMania match this year.
And he's someone who has watched wrestling since he was a little kid.
He's dreamed about this.
He had his first WrestleMania match last year, but it wasn't in front of a crowd.
We were planning for our family and kids to come down and they're still coming.
He doesn't have WrestleMania match and I do, and I'm having this huge moment.
But with that being said, my husband has been amazing.
He's literally being my husband first, and he's been the whole time.
I've been staying up to 4 o'clock the morning making my gear and I'm like, babe,
you can go to sleep.
He's like, no, I don't have a match, I'm staying up with you.
What you need me to do?
Do you want me to record you, you want me to help you?
Let me help you glue some stuff down, cut some stuff.
I'm like no, I'm good, [LAUGH] just moral support.
But he's been amazing.
And I just can't wait to walk back through the curtain and
come back to him like I always do.
And then see my family out there.
This is just an amazing moment.
I keep reflecting on this WrestleMania match.
And thinking about how I never imagined myself being a wrestler.
Now that I'm a wrestler, I can't imagine myself doing anything other than this.
And it's kind of scary when I think about how I
was actually looking to enter my information for a try out.
I just didn't follow through with it until Mark Henry hit me up and was like,
hey I believe in you.
So when you get that validation from a Hall of Famer, you go with it.
But it scares me to think that if I would have waited for
validation from someone else and I would've never gotten it.
Would I have followed through and actually tried out?
And I'm successful, and I'm grateful, this is what I'm supposed to do.
But it scares me to think that by me, waiting on someone else's approval,
it could have affected where I am right now.
So that's the lesson for me is I don't wait for anybody else's approval or
validation.
If I feel that I wanna go for it, I got to go for it.
Because obviously I'm supposed to be here.
But it just scares me to think that one small decision differently,
I wouldn't be here.
And it's crazy and it's scary, so
I'm just so blessed and grateful to be here.
And also blessed that I'm the person that's in this position to make history,
because there's been so many other women before me.
Black women before me who have paved the way and laid the foundations.
So that when I came in, it was easier for me to just walk in and
grasp these opportunities.
And it could be any of them in this spot, but it's me.
So I'm going out there, I'm putting it all out there, I know how big this is.
I didn't find this until, I was 26.
I wish I would have found it when I was younger,
but I always say wrestling found on me.
And I'm never letting it go.
And I'm putting it all out there for WrestleMania.
This is my moment, this is our moment.
It's not even just my moment, this is our moment, and I'm there representing for
our moment.
I want everyone to feel like they're part of this because they are.
So, [SOUND] I'm emotional, I'm emotional maybe, anyway, gonna go finish my gear.
Got to go work out, gotta go pack and
drive to Tampa because it's about to get real, okay?
[LAUGH]