It’s always exciting when fans get to see a NXT star get called up to the WWE main roster, but sometimes stars quickly get lost in the shuffle after getting called up.
Bianca Belair made an appearance at WrestleMania 36, and then she officially joined the main roster. However, WWE didn’t do much with her after that as she spent months drifting throughout the card.
Belair recently spoke to Corey Graves about her situation on the After The Bell podcast, and she talked about what it was like to get called up on for WWE to not use her.
“For me, I would say always try to figure out what your why is. For me, a lot of it is being a role model, representation, look at the bigger picture. When I was in NXT, I was going after the NXT Women’s Championship and it never happened, I would constantly check in on my perspective. I was there during the Shayna [Baszler] reign, and that was Shayna’s time but to me at the same time, I was a part of it. I was a part of pushing it forward and pushing it to the next storyline.”
“Even when I got to RAW and I was backstage, I wasn’t doing much, I would have people come up to me and say ‘It’s okay, aren’t you upset, aren’t you frustrated?’, and I was just like ‘Look, what’s for me will be for me and I would rather them put me out there when they have something for me than for them to just kind of shuffle me.’ My perspective was more of, it will all come together and I’m a firm believer in being able to clap for people even when it’s not your turn because when it’s your turn, you’re going to want people to clap for you. It’s just focusing on the things you can control like you’re going to drive yourself crazy focusing on some things you just cannot control.”
Obviously things have turned out ok for Bianca Belair as she won the women’s Royal Rumble earlier this year, and she’s currently set to challenge Sasha Banks for the SmackDown Women’s Championship during Night 1 of WrestleMania 37.
H/T WrestleTalk
