Eva Marie discusses why she went to NXT during her first stint in WWE.
In 2015, Eva Marie made her NXT debut on WWE's developmental brand, and spent several months wrestling on NXT programming as she looked to learn more about the wrestling craft. Her stint would end in April of 2016, but during her time there, Eva would face off with names such as Carmella, Bayley and Asuka.
While speaking to DS Shin in a new interview for Ring The Belle, Eva spoke about her time in NXT, noting that she did it because she loved WWE and wrestling.
"So I'm a Virgo, I am a perfectionist and I was really thankful for the position that God gave me like out the gate. However, I didn't have the time to really hone in my craft at all because I was on the road. Then you don't really have the training time in the ring. We were filming Total Divas too. So any free time I was filming Total Divas. So the time to actually train in ring was very, very minor. I wanted to do it for myself essentially, because I loved WWE. I loved wrestling and I felt for myself, I know what I can accomplish, which obviously is one of those things that obviously still haunts me to this day. I would love to say that I was champ and to have the title and have a massive title run or a massive storyline. Because if you look at my career, really, I never really had like a huge storyline, like a massive one that was like continuous for months. I've had great ones. When I was in NXT, one of my favorites is me and Bayley."
Elsewhere in the same interview, Eva spoke about the chance to work with AJ Lee so soon into her wrestling career. You can read more about that here.
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