Sasha Banks recently spoke to Scott Fishman of Channel Guide Magazine about her future goals, working WrestleMania this year and more. You can check out the full interview here along with some highlights below.
Wanting to steal the show at WrestleMania:
“That’s the biggest thing for me every time I go into a match is to have everyone say, ‘Whoa! Sasha Banks! You have to watch her matches! After every single NXT TakeOver match I had, I always felt like I had to raise the bar even more, because I feel like people are expecting it. At the same time, I have to take it all in and say, ‘You know what? Don’t put so much pressure on yourself because you just have to do you.’ For me, my biggest dream was to be in WWE, but it was also to be the greatest woman wrestler of all-time.
So you can definitely expect this match to be amazing. We definitely want to steal the show. At the same time I just have to do me. And doing me is legit stealing the show — but I don’t want to put so much pressure on myself that I might pass out even before I go on the stage. I remember in Brooklyn for TakeOver, I put so much pressure on myself that before I went out and was inside that car during the entrance, I was freaking out. Then the minute the car door opened I was like, ‘Yes. I got this. This feels so right.’ I can’t imagine how WrestleMania is going to be. I’m going to be crying, just a mess. But I’m ready for it and so excited.”
Special ring gear for the big event:
“That will be a huge surprise. My ring gear is going to be a one-time thing just for WrestleMania. So that’s going to be pretty big. Once I’m done with that, I’m going to hang it up in my wrestling room. It’s going to be glorious. My ring jacket is going to be the baddest ring jacket you’ve ever seen in your whole life. The entrance — you’re just going to watch and see what I have in store.”
Her future goals:
“I feel like I’ve done everything I wanted to do since I was 10. Now I get that WrestleMania match and I think about what else I need to do. I want to be the first-ever woman to have a Money in the Bank match. I think that would be really cool and different. I would love to main event a WrestleMania one day, of course, with Bayley. I think she is the best we have. I just want to keep doing things that are the first-time ever and keep opening the doors for women’s wrestling.”
