Zelina Vega Wanted To Use A Barbwired Chancla And Jump Off The Titantron For Bakersfield Brawl Match
Zelina Vega wanted to go crazy for her Bakersfield Brawl.
On the June 6 edition of WWE SmackDown, Zelina Vega faced and defeated Piper Niven in a Bakersfield Brawl. The match featured all of the usual weaponry like chairs, tables, steps, and kendo sticks.
As it turns out, Vega wanted to go even further for the match. In a new interview with the Lightweights podcast, Vega revealed that she wanted to jump off the titantron or a ladder for the match.
“My first hardcore match ever. So funny to say cause I’ve been doing this since I was 17, I’m 34 now. Yeah, never did a hardcore match ever. It just wasn’t presented to me like, ‘Oh, this is what we’re doing today’ until like this week. I was like, ‘Oh, can I jump off the tron?’ They’re just like, ‘No, no you can’t. We still need to save some oohs and aahs for Money In The Bank tomorrow and you need to just live, you know?’ I’m like, ‘Eventually, I’m going to do it.’ I was a huge Jeff Hardy mark when I was a kid, like ridiculous. So, anything that he’s done, I just want to do that at some point. I don’t care what it takes or what it looks like, I want to do that. I even asked — they set up some of the ladders and I was like, ‘Can I use the ladders? Can I jump off the ladders?’ They were like, ‘No, we need to save some of it for tomorrow, like we can’t just give everything away the day before.’ Which makes sense but I was also like — it was like a playground for me. I was just like, what can I do, what can I do? Everyone thinks I’m crazy, but I was just like, ‘No, I want to make this really good and just see how we can make it different.’ They called it a Bakersfield Brawl, so I was like, there’s no specifics so what could we really do here?”
Vega even pitched a barbwired chancla for the match.
“I was like, ‘Can we put barbwire on a chancla?’ They’re like, ‘No.’ They’re like, ‘No blood, no guts, just take it easy.’”
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