![]() 'Got signed, gotta start Monday, gotta go.' I manifested it. I knew that was the only way they were going to let me leave without asking any questions. 'I'll continue to come back and if not, I'll do something else.' I used to work at a check cash place and I walked in and was like, 'I got signed.' I lied about it, but I had already manifested it. I felt it, in my heart, and I was going to continue to work hard. That would have been a bad gamble if it didn't go my way. ![]() 'I'm going to get signed.' I was still an extra and the universe had it for me. Velvet said she would drive from Miami to Orlando to be part of the AEW tapings and then drive back to Miami to go to work the next day. I came back the first day, second day, second week, third month, I was back every day. First or second day, your bumps aren't perfect. I signed up and he said he saw me the first day and was like, 'there is no way she's going to keep coming back.' He said my bumps were bad. 'There is no way I can't do this.' She was a big inspiration. She was so tiny and doing so many things. My inspiration was Sasha (Banks aka Mercedes Mone) because she was so small and I was like, 'I can do this.' I looked up to her, I still do, I looked up to her when she started. He laughs all the time because, I'm skinny now, but it was 2015 and I was 95 pounds. I started training with him and from that moment on, the rest is history. She sent me to my trainer now, JB Cool from Florida. I met her one day, she taught me how to forward roll, how to bump, she went to Japan and unfortunately got hurt and needed knee surgery. She continued, "I went and did my research and I ended up joining La Rosa (Negra) just at an MMA gym. When you watch wrestling, especially at the time it was WWE, that's all you know, you don't know how close something can be," she said. I didn't get on the show, but the video came out, it went viral, it went good, (friends asked), 'Have you actually thought about wrestling?' Yeah, but I never knew wrestling schools existed. The video went well, I got to the second casting round. You remind me of a red velvet cake.' 'That kind of rolls off the tongue.' That's where the name came from, we were just joking. My friend was like, 'What about Red Velvet? Your hair is super red, you have beautiful chocolate skin. That's corny, I don't like it, it doesn't stick. What's your name? You have to have a wrestling name.' My friends used to joke that my alter ego was Red Violent. 'Let's do this.' 'Okay, we're going to do this video. I kind of geeked out and was like, 'I don't know what's going to come of this, but let's just try.' I went to my friend's backyard, I had moved on from the break up, I dyed my hair red, it was super red. You didn't need any experience, you just needed to submit a video that you are Tough Enough. "I quit dance, I was kind of in a bad place, I switched the channel, and at the time WWE was casting for Tough Enough. Speaking to Taylor Wilde on Wilde On, Velvet reflected on her journey to AEW. CM Punk Says He Apologized To Tony Khan For All Out Media Scrum, Reached Out To The Elite
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