Vic and I were discussing earlier in the show, Peyton Royce and
her rod sock appearance on Monday night and
it's got the internet buzzing I know you tweeted something about that.
I know you're a big supporter and fan of Peyton Royce, what advice would you give
to her or anybody else to kind of struggling to figure out or thinking.
Well, I'll just wrestle, I'll just be a great wrestler and
that's going to take me to the top for
Peyton I think she is finding it by just being genuinely herself.
Like every thing she has said on Raw talk.
>> My patience has been running thin for quite some time, so
stop wasting my time and give me oscar.
>> .I know it's what she feels and what's within her,
cuz we have talked about it so much.
But for me, when I chopped off my hair and changed my attitude,
that's because I truly felt that I needed to change my direction in order to get
the success that I wanted and it's worked.
So I feel like for Payton specifically, this anger is only going to help her and
it's going to help her truly find herself.
It's gonna help her find how she wants to carry herself and
how she wants to be perceived by the fans and by the company.
And it's just gonna shine through and her works only going to help that,
you have to have the attitude and she already has her voice,
she's already getting so frustrated that it's coming out.
So for me, I think that's, it's gonna work just being her she has an awesome look.
But for most people I would say you hear it a million times, but
You have to be yourself turned up to 15 or whatever it is.
So it sounds hard to do because we think we're not very interesting,
at least I did, I don't like I'm not an interesting person and
the most interesting thing about me is that I love wrestling.
But we're all here, I work with all these wrestlers, so what now, what you know.
So it's just our personalities that separate us from each other,
you just have to amp up, I love Peyton so much.
>> Yeah, when I heard her comments on Raw talk,
I heard the person not the character, getting to know her.
>> Yeah. >> Over the last few years as well and
it's interesting when when graves talked about knowing you for
as long as he has that's interesting to me because you've always been bubbly.
You've always had great conversations you always been outspoken, so
now that we asked you about Peyton Royce, what would you change?
Now, knowing what you know, if you can go back to FCW and talk to yourself for
nine years ago because I think the newer crop of superstars.
And NXT are gonna listen to this and they're gonna say, wow,
they're gonna take this as advice from you, so what advice would you give out?
>> Well, man NXT so awesomely different now than it was as far as the women,
because I would say, I had such a struggle with thinking that I needed to go I did.
I don't know, it's hard thinking that I needed to be so girly and so
womanly in hand trying to dress a certain way and wear high heels and
show up in dresses where.
It really just made me uncomfortable and I think like, wearing a dress and
promo class made me feel uncomfortable.
So I probably looked uncomfortable which made me way more uncomfortable
to even speak because I didn't feel comfortable in my own outfit.
So I think I would tell myself like,
an AJ Lee actually after talking to her throughout, I met her within my first,
six months there her adults were at a show and she helped me so much.
You have to be yourself and, whatever they want, from you and like meet them halfway,
so I wish I could just tell myself like it's okay to be you, they hired you.
They didn't hire you thinking like,
she will look great in a dress she will look great in high heels,
they hired you because of what you had to offer, whatever it is.
So I just hope that all the I know it's better now and
because we've kind of, the doors way open for the women and and
we love you know different variety of women.
And looks and ethnicities and, talents and all that, but I just hope that, everybody,
if you're first getting signed that just be yourself
because that's the reason you're there.
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