Avery Breaux talks about working as an extra for NXT and AEW.
Avery Breaux was trained by Tyler Breeze and Shawn Spears at Flatbacks Training Academy in Florida. As a result, she has had opportunities to compete on NXT Level Up and AEW Dark.
Speaking on a recent episode of the Women's Wrestling Talk podcast, Avery explain how training courtesy of two men who know television wrestling very well has better prepared herself, as well as the other trainees, for moments where they will compete on TV.
“She is so amazing,” Avery said of Kris Statlander whom she wrestled on an episode of AEW Dark. ”I would say the transition, it was interesting. Definitely very different. Luckily, I went to Flatbacks for training, which is coached by Tyler Breeze and Shawn Spears and their whole thing about training there from the start is they train you for TV wrestling, and to be a wrestler on TV. So literally every day no matter what it is, they are trying to prepare you as much as possible for when you eventually can hopefully have a match on TV. So as far as like the little things that I felt like I needed to know I felt super prepared. I felt super confident and really appreciative that those guys had like prepared me in that manner, obviously, still super nervous. Lots of nerves. It was a super big deal. [Kris] is literally, like you guys said, amazing. It's such a big stage just to be able to be on like an AEW Dark or something like that. So it was overall such a cool experience such a good learning experience. I have literally had no complaints, just so happy to be there, and I was really appreciative for it.”
Avery has also had similar experiences with NXT to which she credits Tyler Breeze. Speaking about those experiences, Avery says a large part of appearing as an extra for WWE consists of making a rapport with others and doing the best you can with whatever you're handed.
“I know for me with AEW, Coach Spears, once he feels that you are ready and are like good to take on an opportunity like that, he'll put your name in for extra work with Dark and stuff like that. So he did that. Then there's like an extra coordinator reached out, all that good stuff,” she said. “Then, NXT, obviously with Breeze, because he was there forever, he's still super cool with everyone there. So I had I been booked a few times in NXT prior to getting the Level Up match and it was just you go in, and you do whatever they need you to do, and you're there all day. It's mostly just like making rapport with people and just saying like, ‘Whatever opportunities you guys have…’ like anything like that stuff. Basically you just wait it out and you just keep working hard, keep grinding and eventually the opportunities come and it's really cool.”
Avery will be competing against A.Q.A on AEW Dark on Tuesday, July 5. You can check out the full card here.
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