Tara Zep reflects on making her Ring Of Honor debut.
On the May 8th edition of Ring Of Honor on Honorclub, Anna Jay took on a local talent in the way of Tara Zep. Tara, who is still early on in her career was making her Ring Of Honor debut in her home country of Canada. While Tara would come up short, she still feels it was a 'really cool' experience.
While speaking to Fightful's Corey Brennnan in a recent interview, Tara reflected on making her Ring Of Honor debut.
"Yeah, it was really cool. I mean, I don't believe that like they have too many extras on with my level of skill. Not skill, but, like, the fact that I've only been wrestling for about a year. They really did take a chance on me. Obviously, it's on TV. Like, usually, I think they would have more experienced wrestlers get an opportunity such as that. But I was very lucky to get that. Maybe that's why it was such a short match. But also, a lot of those, like, squash matches when they're trying to get a heel over, you know, as a as a as a heel. I'm not sure if she just turned heel, but I know she had like a bunch of matches where she was doing squash matches on extras. I was one of them, but yeah they're usually pretty short. You just sell for them and that's it, it was really fun and I was actually really glad that i didn't have to do a whole bunch my first time, because when you're out there, it's like, I wasn't actually too nervous going into it, but once I was in the ring and the lights are on you and you can feel like the heat from the lights, they're so fucking bright. Um, it, it kind of scared me. I was just like, oh my god, I cannot screw anything up. Like this has to be perfect. So I didn't have a lot to do. I just, you know, did what I was supposed to do, which is self-care. So it was awesome. It was really fun, really fun, really easy."
Later on in the interview, Tara also talked about not having her signature makeup for the appearance.
"No, so that's the rules. When you do extra work, you are not allowed to have a gimmick. You leave your gimmicks at home. They're not even really stoked on you having your name anywhere on your gear. They prefer you don't because it's not about you. It's about who you're working. But they do give you that amazing, incredible opportunity that people get to see you and your name is on the screen and whatever. that in itself is the opportunity. The fact i couldn't wear my makeup didn't bother me and i honestly went into it knowing that anyways. When I got there when the first things that when the guy said to me is like, are you planning on wearing your makeup? I'm like, no, actually i didn't even bring it. I think that that wasn't allowed. He's like, okay, cool. Just making sure. because some people get really upset when they can't do their gimmicks. I wouldn't be able to do, like, really any of my character stuff either, right? So it's like, it's all good it i see it as i can show my ranges, I can show you how i am in this kind of person, this kind of person, and that i can do both, you know? So, it's all good to me. I don't mind."
Zep has become a frequent face on the Canadian wrestling scene over the last year, and has a penchant for the deathmatch style of wrestling.
For the full interview from Tara, you can check out the link above.
