Raquel González (Texas, 30 years old) is completing a dream 2021. Together with her partner, Dakota Kai, she won the first (female) edition of the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic and the NXT Tag Team Women’s Inaugural Belts. Their reign was very short, they lost them that same night, but their name has already been recorded in history. Heading into the week of WrestleMania 37, González received the opportunity to contest the women’s belt of the yellow brand at NXT TakeOver: Stand & Deliver. He defeated Io Shirai to achieve his first solo belt.
“I was very excited throughout the day. I am very nervous and I had to think about relaxing because otherwise I would reach the end of the day without energy. When the fight ended I looked at my parents, who were watching me live, and I saw how my father raised his arm with joy and I thought ‘now I’m going to cry’. Is incredible. I always think of words to convey how I feel, but I can’t find them. Since I was little I wanted to be a WWE wrestler and now I am fulfilling my dream. For me, now when they call me champion it’s incredible. Every time I hear it I think: ‘I am the champion’. It has been a long time of work to achieve it“, says the American, of Mexican origins, in an interview with AS.
The champion is living a great moment, but does not close doors. “At the moment I’m fine in NXT, I love the family we form, but I want to be on Raw and SmackDown one day. It’s like another level. You cannot settle for what you have. The next thing I want is to be on a pay-per-view and fight people like Beth Phoenix or Natalya, who have been with the company for so long. I’m working to get to his level and I think I’m going to get to him“She admits. The wrestler is also excited to think of the moment of the women’s division in WWE.” There was a moment last week when Rhea Ripley (Raw champion), Bianca Belair (SmackDown champion) and I posed for a photo backstage at NXT as we celebrated our victories. The three of us arrived almost at the same time at the Performance Center and once they took a similar photo of us because we were the ones who lifted the most weight. I look at that image and I am happy because they are my friends, but at the same time my rivals“, concludes Raquel González.
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