Nia Jax was a guest on this week’s episode of Busted Open Radio with Dave LaGreca and Mark Henry; you can read a few excerpts (transcription credit to Bill Pritchard for Wrestlezone.com) and listen to the interview below:
Nia Jax comments on Ronda Rousey coming to WWE:
You know, I’m very excited. Ronda Rousey has done… she was a huge part of the women’s revolution all over the world and part of the WWE, and now she’s coming to WWE. It’s going to be absolutely amazing. She’s so talented, and has so many things to bring to us, it’s literally going to expand the women’s division. People don’t even realize how much she’s going to bring and how far it’s going to take us. So, I personally am very excited for her to come. I know that she’s willing to put in the hard work.
I’ve seen her put in the hard work in the UFC and how hard she worked to get to where she got. I know that she’s going to be able to prove herself here in WWE. I’m very excited for her to sign [her RAW contract]; I’m very excited to step in the ring with her, and actually see what we could do together. It’s going to be great. I have nothing but positive things for anybody that wants to come to WWE, because it is not an easy place to get into. It’s not easy to get through, so if you feel as though you can get here and you feel that you can get through it, I am all for it, and I say ‘welcome.’
Nia comments on using her position as a WWE star to promote body positivity:
I never realized the impact… WWE is worldwide. It’s everywhere. When I started coming on the scene, just really new into NXT and people started seeing me, I got a lot of positive feedback from my friends, my friends back home. They were like ‘Oh, you are doing such great things for young girls’ and then it clicked in my head like ‘wow! I didn’t know that was something I could do here’. I just started pushing it more on social media, and social media is such a huge thing with kids nowadays, so I keep promoting it. Even when I go out to the ring, yes, I am the big bad heater monster, but I’m out there showing young girls that I can still be athletic just because I’m a big bad heater. I can still go out there and cut promos like the other pretty girls, and wear my hair down and put makeup on and do everything that they say that you can’t.
It’s cool because even WWE gets behind it, like with New York Fashion Week, which I kind of went out and found on my own, with the help of some amazing women in the background. So, we brought it to WWE, and it was a day off, and we rarely get days off, and I said, ‘look, this is on my day off, and this company is willing to put me in their fashion show. I think it will be a great thing for our WWE viewers to see not only a different side to Nia Jax, but to see that look, like look how beauty comes in so many different shapes and sizes.’ And so I was walking in [the show] and WWE covered it, and I got such great feedback from it. I never thought I’d be able to spread the message of such body positivity, and just being positive in general, but I’m insanely grateful for it.
