You want to be an NXT fan.
I didn't feel that I was ready to leave NXT. When I was called up to SmackDown, I was very nervous. I hadn't done many of the things at NXT that I thought I was supposed to. I didn't have a TakeOver match. I never held the title. I only had a few matches on NXT TV and to be called up and told, 'Well, here you go!'
Bayley helped me a lot in my career, especially in NXT. I had some of my best NXT matches with her, and she definitely helped me develop as a talent, because you're just as good as the person you're in there with.
When I won the NXT women's title from Natalya at Full Sail, becoming the second-ever woman's champion for NXT, that's when I knew, 'Okay, I'm doing the right thing,' and that I could do this.
I started in NXT when we were still FCW in Tampa.
To be the first NXT Women's Champion is such an honor.
There's a lot of talent down there in NXT.
Now, I don't even consider NXT a developmental system. It's its own brand. So many guys were able to develop a following while in NXT.
I'm an NXT Superstar and the current NXT Champion.
NXT is the professional level, and it's the best of the best.
I want to do something that has never been done, and that's become the first two-time NXT Champion. In a sense, that's a strange distinction to want, but that has to be my goal while I'm in NXT.
But when it comes down to it, I'm a guy who feels like I should be a champion in NXT.
I'd like to go to NXT, be NXT Champion.
Nothing turned the NXT Universe upside down like The Undisputed Era's debut.
I won the NXT championship as a heel; then the fans grew to respect - not love, respect - me. I was popular because I was seen as the next to get called up.
If I were to doubt myself, I wouldn't even have a chance to be competing for the NXT Women's Championship.
When I came to NXT, it was very much a developmental brand.
The reason Tommaso Ciampa is NXT champion is because of me. I admitted that, and it's my mistake to fix.
I've always been a fan of Bobby Roode's.
