Roxanne Perez Chose To Become The Best Heel She Could After Not Being Called Up From NXT As A Babyface

Roxanne Perez thought she was ready to be called up to the WWE main roster as a babyface, but she is grateful for her time as a heel. When Roxanne Perez was the face of WWE NXT 2.0, she was primarily a plucky babyface. She spent many years in WWE NXT, and there were times when it felt like a call-up to either WWE Raw or WWE Friday Night SmackDown was overdue.

She would eventually make it to WWE Raw, and now she is one of the top heels on WWE’s flagship show alongside Judgment Day. Speaking with Chris Van Vliet on the Insight podcast, the former WWE NXT Women’s Champion admitted that she believed she was ready to be called up as a babyface and was truly hoping for it. However, when faced with disappointment, she chose to use it as fuel.

“Last year, obviously, I wanted to get called up in the draft so bad. Part of me thought it would happen, and it didn’t. I was like, oh, like, I could have let it just make me really upset and and just kind of not fully give up, but just make me not as driven but I feel like it made me even more driven, because I was like, I’m gonna work on my promos. I’m gonna become the best heel that I could ever be. Because people thought that I couldn’t be a heel, and a year later, I was called up.

“I thought I was ready as a babyface. But now that I think of it, I feel like I wasn’t as ready as I was when they called me. I feel like I could have been ready at any point. I could have gone and just executed what they wanted me to execute. But I wasn’t at my full potential, my full character, the Prodigy character, and it was different being the Prodigy as a babyface. Calling yourself the Prodigy when you’re like a good guy, then calling yourself a prodigy when you’re a bad guy is more fun. You get to tell people like, I’m super young and I’m really good. What are you gonna do about it?”

Elsewhere in the interview, she opened up about enjoying her time with Judgment Day. Read more here.

Fans can check out the full interview with Perez embedded below.