Roxanne Perez talks Pop Rocks.
Over the past couple of years, Roxanne Perez has become a multi time NXT Women's Champion and is now flourishing on the WWE main roster as part of WWE Monday Night RAW. Throughout her career in WWE, she has utilized Pop Rocks as her finisher, a Code Red that has brought her the aforementioned championships.
While speaking to Sports Illustrated, Roxanne Perez explained how she came to use Pop Rocks and how the move was named.
"So it's funny because... so I started training in 2015, and obviously, I shouldn't have been trying these big moves in my first two weeks of training, but I was. One of the first moves I tried was the Code Red, and I grew up watching Alexa Bliss. So that move to me was... I just thought it fit so perfectly because, she was small and I was small. It's like you could just do it to anybody, anywhere, anytime. So yeah, I tried that move. I ended up using it my whole entire independent career. When I got to the WWE, I had my first match on NXT and Shawn was asking me what finishing move I had. I gave a couple other ones and then he didn't really love those. So then I said, well, I have this move. He was like, 'yep, you're using that, that's perfect.' He's like, 'do you have a name for it? We sat there trying to come up with a name and he came up with Pop Rocks. So it stuck ever since then him and Matt Bloom came up with that."
Elsewhere in the same interview, Roxanne spoke about her previous 'I made it' moments in wrestling. You can read more about that here.
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