Chelsea Green talks US title win being postponed, representation in WWE

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On US title win being moved from Vancouver:

“Originally, it was supposed to be in Vancouver (at Survivor Series 2024). That was obviously going to be, I mean, for so many different reasons, the biggest moment of my career. It was already going to be the biggest moment, but to have my friends and family there and for it to be in somewhat of my hometown, close enough to my hometown, like that’s unheard of. People don’t get those moments.”

“So, when it was taken away from me, I was heartbroken. I still had all my friends and family at Survivor Series, but I wasn’t on the show. So it was really a moment of just like, ‘oh, like how?’ And it put a little bit of a damper on it until I found out it was going to be in Long Island. That is my husband’s hometown. So if it couldn’t be in my hometown, at least it’s in Long Island. It’s with all of my in-laws. Everyone in my family ended up flying there anyway. And it was just like the perfect moment. The crowd was amazing. They were chanting my name the entire time from start to finish. I was able to have all my family come back and take pictures with it.”

On representation in WWE:

“For me, coming in as an independent wrestler from Canada, whose background is just—I’m just British, I’m just a Caucasian British girl—that doesn’t lend to hiring me. That’s not giving something special. So I had to make sure that my story was special, that the journey it took to get there was special, or that my character work in the ring was special, someone else couldn’t bring that to the table.”

“I’ve had a lot of WWE tryouts where they’ve said no—like, ‘We’re just—we’re not hiring that demographic.’ And I totally respect that, because when I’m watching wrestling, I don’t want to just see 10 blonde white girls in the ring, right? We love Bianca because she brings something new to the table. We love Naomi because she was the second Black woman of her time to be in NXT with Alicia Fox. She gives us something different—she comes to the table with something I could never come to the table with. We had a Chinese Superstar, Xia Li—she’s no longer at WWE with us. But how amazing is that for all the little girls and boys in China to see her out there bringing her Chinese culture and heritage to the ring? That’s special.”