At the height of her WWE career, AJ Lee stood out among the rest of the Women’s roster as she showcased her emotional interests, rejecting the diva stereotype and focusing on her mic skills and in-ring work. today, AJ Lee is an inspiration to many of the current women’s wrestlers in WWEbut his journey had to start somewhere.
during the interviewiHeart Women’s Sports Mind on MtAJ Lee remembered that there were pilot programs that had an entry fee, and after two years of saving, he participated in one of the aforementioned programs along with 400 other people.
“For three days they just watch you, do some sort of wrestling drills and do what’s called a promo cut,” he recalls.
Although the schedule originally scheduled promos on the dedicated day, AJ Lee claims he was kicked out of the ring on his first day and told to cut one.
“I hadn’t prepared anything, I was like crazy,” she admitted. “And then I just went into a character that I think was in me for so long and cut a promo, and you know, I was told that it was like the moment they were like, ‘You know what?’ “Okay, okay, we’ll give him a chance.”
AJ Lee then clarified that the persona she performed during the promo was still not “AJ Lee” but her “Miss April” persona.
“I was still Miss April,” she recalled with a laugh.
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