Bianca Belair on How Triple H Took a Chance on Her, Her Concerns Moving to the Main Roster

– Speaking to The Ringer Wrestling Show, WWE Raw Women’s Champion Bianca Belair discussed her rise in WWE. Below are some highlights (via WrestlingInc.com):

Bianca Belair on Triple H: “Triple H is everything, I mean, he was NXT. He was like one of the first people that took a chance on me. He put me out there for the NXT universe to see me and to show who Bianca Belair is, and he was so much of an essential part of the progression and development of who is Bianca Belair is inside the ring, outside the ring. He was NXT. He was just so hands-on with everything. It’s like, entrance and placement. I learned so many things from him, and just the moment that I had with him at the Mae Young Classic because I felt that was the very first moment that I realized that I was finally walking in my purpose and I found what I was good at and what I was meant to do. And in that moment that I had with him after the match, I’ve had so many interviews, people ask, ‘What did he say to you?’ I’m like, ‘I will never tell,’ because that, to me, is something that I’ll take with me forever and I still replay those words that he told me in my head now before my ‘Mania matches, before my big matches. So, I just really appreciate everything he’s done inside and outside the ring.”

On moving up to the main roster during the pandemic: “I didn’t really know what was happening when the pandemic started because I was in NXT. Triple H was the one who pulled me aside and said, ‘Hey, I know you didn’t get to have your moment here in NXT, but it’s not going to happen here. It’s going to happen somewhere else. You’re getting called to RAW and you’re going to debut at the RAW after WrestleMania’. Which everyone knows, that’s the biggest show of the year, WrestleMania. So, I was going to have my debut moment and then the pandemic happened and everything shut down. I end up debuting at WrestleMania in the Performance Center in front of zero fans and then, you know, trying to introduce myself to this larger audience now that’s just on TV of who Bianca Belair is.”

On her concerns with fans accepting her: “I was worried about that. I was like, ‘how can I get people to know who I am and how can I get them to feel?’ Because my thing is, I don’t want people just to watch me, watch me perform. I want to make them feel and connect with me, and I had to do that for about a year with no one. And win the Royal Rumble in front of no one, then go to WrestleMania in front of a crowd not knowing, ‘are they going to boo me? Are they going to cheer me? I don’t know.’ So it was tough, but that was my journey, a part of who Bianca Belair is now. I’m just super excited now to be here for WrestleMania in Dallas now, in front of a full audience.”

Bianca Belair was victorious at WrestleMania 38: Night 1, where she defeated Becky Lynch to win the Raw Women’s Championship.