In Netflix’s newest documentary collection, Wrestlers, viewers are launched to plenty of skilled wrestlers plying their commerce on the impartial scene. Some are snug with the extent of success they’ve achieved performing for native audiences, whereas others dream of taking their subsequent massive step.
A kind of hoping to make use of the present’s platform to achieve the following degree is “HollyHood” Haley J, a standout feminine wrestler on the present who is among the major stars of Ohio Valley Wrestling, the impartial promotion on the heart of the present. Throughout the collection, she makes it clear that OVW is one step in her journey, whereas she additionally gathers expertise with different teams like Ladies of Wrestling.
Now, with the present on the market on the planet, Haley J has a imaginative and prescient for her future that features ending up as a WWE Famous person.
“WWE has acquired all of the history–it’s acquired all the things,” she advised GameSpot. “It is the largest stage that we will go to. So it’s going to at all times be primary till I get it.”
Whereas Haley is fast to notice she’d additionally like to work for WWE’s major competitor All Elite Wrestling (AEW), she already has a fundamental event-level storyline in thoughts for WWE.
“I need to go together with Charlotte Aptitude as a result of she’s a second-generation famous person,” Haley stated of the 16-time WWE Ladies’s Champion and daughter of Corridor of Famer Ric Aptitude. “And our tales are very comparable however very totally different. For instance, her dad–everyone knew who she was due to her dad. I am sort of the alternative. I am [a] second technology [wrestler], however the indies knew my mother. She by no means actually made it massive time, so I could not actually use her title [to] get myself on the market as a lot. So I really feel like I did that with out the second-generation blessings that quite a lot of others get. So I simply assume it would be an ideal story. I might inform that story.”
Apparently, shortly after the debut of Wrestlers on Netflix, it was reported that Haley J was to obtain a WWE tryout. Nonetheless, it was later reported that her tryout was postponed. A brand new tryout date has not been introduced.
Wherever she finally ends up, whether or not it is with WWE or AEW–or even when she stays the reigning Ladies’s Champion of Ohio Valley Wrestling–Haley is past content material seeing the remainder of the world meet up with what she already knew.
“I’ve at all times stated that I used to be a famous person and I used to be simply sort of ready on individuals to catch as much as that,” she stated. “I believed in myself for a very long time. However now that it is really taking place, it is sort of loopy as a result of my followers and stuff are going up by the 1000s. And clearly, I wasn’t that massive of a famous person as a result of it wasn’t taking place like that [before]. However my mentality undoubtedly hasn’t modified. I nonetheless really feel like I do know my price. And I do know my worth and I really feel good. I really feel prefer it’s my time to shine.” You may watch your complete first season of Wrestlers on Netflix now.
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