Nia Jax reflects on winning the WWE Raw Women's Championship at WrestleMania in 2018 and how the angle going into the match allowed her to feel like she was making a real difference.
Nia Jax is one of only a handful of women that can say that they won their first Women's Championship at WrestleMania. Her crowning moment came at WrestleMania 34 against Alexa Bliss. The storyline going into that match focused heavily on Nia Jax’s presentation and hit on issues related to body image.
Speaking on the Wives of Wrestling podcast, Nia Jax said she enjoyed the story going into that match and being able to collaborate with one of her best friends in Alexa Bliss and she also reflected on the real-world impact that the story had to those who watched.
“Well, it was really cool. Because it was something that Lexi and I, we were able to collaborate together on it. It was so funny, because she would get so evil, and people were like, ‘How dare they make fun of—’ and if anybody knows Vince, it's like Vince loves to take the obvious and expand it,” said Jax. “There was a promo where they were making — Mickie James and [Alexa Bliss] were just making fun of the way I looked and my size and people just went nuts on Twitter. So to me, it was like, making it more real made it better with everybody. People were like, ‘Fuck Alexa.’ They were really buying me and it was like the only time anybody was fucking behind me in the company, but they were really behind me.
It was such a cool story because I have a niece and she's a tall girl,” Nia Jax continued. “She's taller than everybody. You know, she looks just like me. I'm like, ‘Oh, man, she's gonna be able to grow up and be like, ‘My aunt was a badass like she got. She looks so good. She won that title, she was a champ, and she beat her bully.’ It was a super cool thing, because not only did I get to do that for my own family, but I saw so many girls. I met so many girls, I talked to so many women about how that really helped them in their own personal life. So it was just — especially winning it. I didn't think I would win. At that point. I never really won anything and it’d always be like, ‘Nah, I'm gonna put this person over now,’ like cool, whatever. But then they were like, ‘You're actually like getting the title. ‘Like, yeah, right. I’ll believe it the night of when they actually — because shit changes all the time.”
Nia Jax was able to hold the gold for several months before losing it back to Alexa Bliss at Money in the Bank.
Elsewhere in this podcast, Nia Jax spoke about her relationship with Vince McMahon. You can learn more about that at this link.
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