But what does that look like for you?

Oh, man.

It's kind of crazy because we don't have time off.

We kind of get on a plane, especially if we're overseas.

We get on a plane.

We fly that three hours away, probably land.

drive for another hour and then have maybe three hours of sleep and then have to fight between probably getting something to eat or maybe seeing the city or working out before we head to the venue so it's all in moderation like you were saying so when i do have that time off i have a week off guys like it's it's crazy to say that i have five days off we rarely get that i'm going to get a massage i'm going to get a massage actually at my tryout i i hate ice bath in college they would give us give it to us all the time totally hate them But after my second day at Trials, we had three days, I was crying for our ice bath.

And I'm thinking, how do you come up with that move?

How do you think that all went about?

I think when I got here, I've never worked in a tag team division before, ever, you know? I more so was all about Jade, Jade, Jade in all my matches previously.

Also, I was a heel.

A whole change to my whole character happened.

I've never done that before.

The WWE universe knows something about me at the same time.

People have to give you that trust, and I think that now that I'm delivering and people are seeing that trust, and I don't feel like I need to show you guys my hard work.

Like, I, I wanna see more of that.

Because after what

I did to Nia, I was going to get on the announcers table and just like beat my chest like King Kong and talk a lot of smack.

But then in Unison, the arena did that.

I was like...

OK, and then all the women in the front row turned around and discussed.

So I was just like, OK, this must be really bad because I can't see it.

Everybody is seeing it.

Yeah.

Mm.

And that's why it happened the way it happened.

Anyway, I didn't know it was so bad because I remember in Japan, Dakota hit me, and I was bust open a little bit on my forehead, and I was bleeding out a lot, and I actually thought it was her 'cause it was on her, and it was me.

But so when I, I hit it and I seen a little blood, I was like, "Oh, okay," 'cause your head bleeds more than normal.

So I'm like, "Okay, all right." But I mean, like, I looked down, and you can look at the video, and a whole stream of blood just poured into my hand.

Oh

... all night long.

So it was, I would wake up, like, in a hour, and blood was just poured all on my face.

Mm.

Um, and I'm headed towards a direction that I wanna be, and that's to be a legend, whether people like it or not.

Um, but I felt blessed.

I felt blessed, um, I felt worthy, um, and it was just something that I always said I manifested.

I said, "This is exactly what I'm gonna do, so what's next? What's next? What's next? Keep givings, giving it to me.

Keep feeding me." So more than anything, I felt blessed, but in wrestling, as you know, it's off to the next PLE, it's off to the next SmackDown.

It's, it's just off to the next PR, whatever.

Mm-hmm

So explain specifically why this happened so we'll know it's not going to happen again.

So listen, I'm confident.

Maybe a little too confident where I was blinded by the lights.

I was out there.

I was feeling the crowd.

They were booing me.

I was loving it.

So what did you do to them when they didn't have your back? I mean, how do we know that this error has been corrected and they're not going to make the same mistake they made before?

Explain how this kind of just happened for you to be one of the biggest stars in the game.

Yeah, and that's why I love this because my haters...

Yeah, Michelle's a hater.

They motivate me.

My haters told me that I would never amount to being a superstar in this industry.

I'm a superstar.

They've told me I can never be a champion.

Is there anything you learned about performance from him or vice versa?

So now the rematch, what is this one about?

Ah.

I mean, this is about revenge.

She came onto SmackDown thinking that she could run our show.

Who are you? You're someone on Raw.

I didn't appreciate that.

She came in full speed, and the fact that our locker room could let her just skip the line was just an embarrassment.

Watching the fans here who are get- getting ready to watch, what should they expect from the crowds in Italy?

Yeah.

You know my character, she puts on, and she loves people talking all the smack because it's gonna motivate her, and I'm gonna go out there and turn it up to the next level.

If y'all wanna give me something, I'm gonna give you something back.

But it makes for a great performance, especially going up against somebody like Rhea, who's a crowd favorite.

Facts.

Dealing with all the other things.

We have families, we have all kind of stuff.

So the fact that fans show up and spend their hard-earned money and stand in lines for hours to just shake our hand and let us see their face, it means the world.

Yeah.

And, uh, I come out on my entrance, I jump in the crowd, and you know, fans, they, they tend to be like, "Oh," you know what I mean? Like, "Oh, there's a wrestler." You feel me? And, um, there was this one particular hand that was not above my waist.

What do you like to enjoy outside of work?

Not going to no damn cemetery.

[laughs] Nah.

You gotta try it once.

Nah.

Don't knock it till you try it.

Yeah.

So I'm the type of person where like I get in people's head.

I was very just like, "What the fuck you gonna do?" Da, da, da, da, da.

Da, da, da.

So it does...

It helps me out with my character 'cause my character's real cocky.

I just talk my smack, like it is what it is.

Mm-hmm.

Who is one person down in Orlando at the Performance Center that really helped elevate Jade Cargill to put you in this position where you're now one win away from becoming Queen of the Ring?

I would say Terry.

Terry Taylor.

Terry Taylor.

Um, I would say Regal.

Regal as well.

Um, those are more so the unspoken voices that always check in with me, make sure I'm good, and they're very, um, cut dry, as in if it's something that they see that they don't like, they're very much like, "No.

I don't know that I've ever seen in your face, especially as you're coming to the ring, an ounce of doubt, an ounce of like, "Oh, all this just for me?" It just like, all these moments, you have the ability to go, "No, this is exactly where I belong." Is that something that you've always had? Have you always had that level of confidence? Or was there a moment where it goes, "Yeah, this is who I am and, and not only do I belong in this world, this world is actually mine"?