For those of you who don’t know, my brother Joshua – has special needs and has been dealing with a lot more health issues as of lately. It has been very difficult to deal with, seeing someone you love having to deal with stuff like that. Joshua will be moving into a new group home soon, so before that he wanted a vacation, and we decided to give him one! Which meant driving 19 hours right after throwing the first pitch at the Red Sox game, from Boston to Orlando because he cannot fly right now.
Aside from that, I am a little tired – I’ll be honest I haven’t slept much. Right after getting to Orlando, I had to go straight to Seattle – let’s not forget Willow put me through a table AND THEN I took a redeye back to my Florida home, where I have been training MY ASS OFF at every wrestling school in Orlando, getting ready for the TBS championship match against Willow Nightingale. I do wish that my mom and brother could be in Vegas for this debut match – for the first time Joshua actually wants me to win and keeps saying “I hope you beat Willow and get the title.” So that’s what I want to do. All the travel, stress, not eating or sleeping – all of it, IS worth it because he is my reason.
I took some time for myself; I spent months thinking about how much unfinished business I have in wrestling and healing from the trauma that this injury caused me. I ended up totally changing my mindset and preparing myself for all the goals I have laid out for myself.
Now I am feeling this fire again – honestly, I’m feeling this same feeling that I felt back in 2015 in Brooklyn. It’s a hunger and a knowing that change is coming because Mone changes EVERYTHING. I came to AEW to make Women’s’ wrestling globalized, I know in my heart and in my soul, I will do just that.
