Kacy Catanzaro Reflects On 2019 Royal Rumble Spot, ‘I’m Super Proud Of That’

Kacy Catanzaro looks back on her Royal Rumble save in 2019.

Catanzaro participated in her first Rumble match in 2019, coming in at the #19 spot and lasting ten minutes.

Before she was officially taken out of the match, Kacy saved herself with a handstand on the floor. Speaking with Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp, she revealed that fans will bring up the spot years later.

“Definitely my 2019 Royal Rumble save. I would say that’s one of my bigger ones just because I was so
new and it was such a big moment and years later when I would meet people they’d be like, ‘I loved your
Rumble save.’ [It was] just something that kind of stuck in people’s minds and for how new I was, it was
just such a big moment that I’m super proud of that.”

Fightful proceeded to ask Catanzaro if she pitched the moment or if the moment was pitched to her.

“So I know that when I was being put in the Rumble they had said, ‘We want you to do something cool, something that is your style,’ because that’s what I was doing and I remember the posts on the main roster
are so much bigger than the post in NXT. They’re triangle screens basically. Whereas in NXT, it’s just like a metal post. So in NXT, I was climbing the post and doing fun stuff with that. They’d mentioned that. I was like, ‘I can’t climb this. It’s so wide and slippery.’ I was like, ‘I can’t climb this. What can I do?’ Because they brought me here to do this cool thing and I can’t do it. So then I remember trying to figure out how could I do something. Obviously, Kofi and Trinity were huge inspirations to me. So was like, ‘How can I do my own kind of save with giving them something they wanted to see?’ So we had made the handstand happen and because it was so wide, I was able to wrap my legs around it instead of climbing up it with my feet and it just pieced together.”

Kacy was also asked if she had ever been presented with an idea that she wasn’t sure she could pull off.

“I want to say all the time that I felt that way. But luckily, I was surrounded by people who really believed
in me. So honestly a lot of the times I wasn’t sure if I could do something, it was Lacey pitching it to us
like, ‘Hey, we should do this,’ and I was like, ‘Can I do it?’ Because she’s very creative So it was always
something really cool, but I was the one on top of her shoulders diving head first and I was like, ‘Can I do
that?’ She was so supportive that she was like, ‘No, I know we can do this.’ We would try it out and be able
to do it. TJ was always really, really helpful and he has such a great mind. He would give us stuff and I’d
be like, ‘Can I do that?’ But that was part of why I loved it, it’s just really challenging myself and [figuring
out] what are your limits and finding them. Just being able to do some really cool stuff over the years.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Kacy Catanzaro spoke about her title wins in WWE. Check out her full comments by clicking here.

Fans can check out Fightful’s full conversation with Kacy Catanzaro in the video linked at the top of this article.