Chelsea Green Is Upset That The Women’s US Title Isn’t On The WWE SummerSlam Card, ‘I Feel Like I Laid The Groundwork For This Title To Mean Something’
Chelsea Green speaks her mind.
As of publish time, Giulia is not set to defend the Women’s United States Championship at SummerSlam. The 31-year-old has been vocal about her desire to do something on the show, saying that she “couldn’t forgive herself” if she didn’t make it on the two-day event.
In a new interview with The Ringer Wrestling Show, Chelsea Green, the inaugural Women’s United States Champion, opened up about WWE’s choice to not put the title and Giulia on the show.
“It definitely makes me upset. I feel like I really put in work with that title. When I first got that title, I did not stop working. I won it before Christmas, I worked through Christmas and literally every single day until I dropped the title. So, it does make me upset. I feel like I laid the groundwork for this title to mean something and unfortunately we’ve taken a step back from that but that’s not the girls fault. That’s just a fact that there’s so much good wrestling right now that we don’t even know how to fit in on TV. Am I making excuses, yes. Because you can always fit something on TV. You saw me lose, even though I had that title for like four months straight. I didn’t even win a match and I was only on TV maybe two to three minutes every week, but it was still there and being shown. I do make sure that every time Giulia shows up at TV, I hype her up. She should still feel amazing for holding that title, whether it’s being used on TV and being defended or not. I do feel like we could do more with it. She’s such an amazing wrestler, she’s insane. She’s so good. I do feel like there’s something there, I feel like she should feud with Zelina but like really feud, like really give us something to tune into. I would be okay feuding with her but I’ve said this before, let me not continue to put my hands where it doesn’t belong. We’re two champions removed from me, let her have her moment because I already know people keep talking about my reign with the title because we haven’t really seen much since. Poor Zelina had to feud with me until the end of time, until she lost the title. I just think that Giulia has the platform to possibly have girls come up from NXT or Raw or bring girls in that haven’t been working to feud with her. I just hope we can do that.”
Green lost the title to Zelina Vega on an April episode of SmackDown. Giulia defeated Vega for the belt just two months later.
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