AJ concludes by talking about being marketable and dependable to your employers, but she says the pinnacle of her career was taking 14 years of work and holding the title to call herself the best.

AJ says she went the independent route and wanted to change how women’s wrestling was looked at, because they were used as props or in bra and panties matches before.ĪJ talks about coming up with the name for her black Widow finishing maneuver, then she describes wrestling as “Cirque du Soliel having a love child with SNL” and it’s about wanting to protect your opponent but looking like you want to kill them.

AJ then brings up her history of injuries, saying she had her tooth go through her face once, hitting her opponent, and she loves the scar she has from it.ĪJ talks about the old notions of taking any beautiful woman and turning them into a wrestler, but she did not want that to be her path. AJ says wrestling helped her channel all of her anger. With AJ Mendez Brooks looking to bring the biographical story of her career to a new medium, it will be interesting to see how much is said about her career in the WWE, assuming the project gets. She says she was told to practice fighting her siblings to prepare for some of the rough neighborhoods she grew up in. AJ talks about her upbringing, saying she grew up around ‘normalized violence’ in a very unhealthy way.

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