Zelina Vega is currently a singles star. She recently challenged Asuka for the RAW Women’s Title but was unable to win the match. She worked hard to get where she is currently.
Before signing with WWE, she worked in the independent circuit and also had a brief run in Impact Wrestling. In the beginning, she would only get booked as one of Adam Rose’s Rosebuds but it was a valuable learning lesson for her.
She spoke with Chasing Glory, where she said that some younger WWE Superstars do not understand how to pay one’s dues.
“It was hard in the moment. I was 18 or 19 when I had my first tryout,” she replied. “I got turned down every year since 2010, except for 2011 – 2012, but every year after that. And then, like, around 2017, I said, ‘ok, I’m out.’ They had me as a Rosebud for, like, six months. So I was driving from New York to, like, everywhere, just to prove to them how much this meant to me.”
“It’s funny. I feel like a lot of people, who are just coming up now, they have no idea what that process is [like]. They have no idea what, you know, really paying your dues to get to that point means. You know, when you’re sacrificing when you don’t have money, when you don’t have anything… I did what I had to do ’cause I knew, like, something in me just knew, that this is what I was meant to do.”
Vega will certainly never forget the difficult road she took in order to become a WWE Superstar.
