Zelina Vega Recalls Her Time as a Manager in WWE, Initially Feeling Like an Outsider

– During a recent interview with the Lightweights podcast, former WWE Women’s United States Champion Zelina Vega discussed learning she would win the WWE Women’s US Title from Chelsea Green only one hour before her match took place. She won the belt from Green on the April 25 edition of Friday Night SmackDown in Forth Worth, Texas. Below are some highlights (via WrestlingInc.com):

Zelina Vega on starting out as Andrade’s manager in WWE: “Like, a manager was never on my list of ideas that I wanted, but it kind of just happened, and I fell into it. Then I just — I don’t know, something when me and Andrade just got together, it was like lightning struck and then just we became this like force.”

On how she initially felt like an outsider in NXT: “I wanted to be a part of things that were happening so bad, you know. I didn’t feel completely a part of the locker room, like the female locker room because we didn’t have that kind of, you know, you feel differently after you wrestle somebody. There’s a different kind of relationship that you eventually develop with that person. I just didn’t really have that, you know. So, especially in NXT, I felt very much like an outsider because it was like — I was in the female locker room, but I just didn’t have that relationship with everybody.”

Zelina Vega would eventually transition to a wrestling role in WWE. She’s since won the Queen’s Crown tournament, the Women’s Tag Team Titles, and more recently, the WWE Women’s United States Title. She lost the title to Giulia last month on the June 27 edition of SmackDown in Riyadh.