Nia Jax: Sometimes It Takes A Full 10 years To Understand Your Character And Know Who You Are

Nia Jax notes how it can sometimes take longer than expected to understand your character in professional wrestling.

Nia is a wrestler who has been a heel for the majority of her time on the WWE roster, but has remained a staple of WWE programming despite not having her character shift into a babyface more than for a few months. For Jax, she feels like it took her around ten years to fully understand her character in wrestling.

While speaking to the Battleground podcast in a new interview, Nia Jax discussed how her presence has grown since returning in 2023, noting that sometimes it takes longer than expected to understand your character in wrestling.

“I always, when we talk about it backstage, I tell girls like sometimes it takes like a full 10 years to understand your character and know who you are. Some girls get it immediately and they feel it, but sometimes, like even the men, I mean, I’ve had conversations with some legends and they’re like, ‘yeah, it took me like 10 years to even like feel right in the ring,’ and so I think for me coming back, I was just like, ‘oh, I know who I am.’ I know what I bring to the table. Like, I don’t have to worry about like any of the the chirpers in the back who want to talk smack. Like, I know what I bring to the table. So like, I’m going to put it all out there and they’re going to love it. and that’s what it was.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Nia spoke about nepotism in wrestling. You can read more about that here.

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