Shotzi Credits The Wyatt Family For Getting Her Into Wrestling

Shotzi loved the Wyatt Family. 

The Wyatt Family (Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper, & Erick Rowan) brought a unique look to NXT when they debuted in 2012. The group only grew in popularity when they came up to the main roster in 2013. The Wyatt Family influenced plenty of wrestlers and fans, including Shotzi. 

Appearing on The RIP Tour, Shotzi was asked how she got into wrestling. 

“I watched a little bit with my brother growing up, but I was never a huge fan. I just never thought that someone as small as me could be a wrestler. I always thought you had to have the biggest muscles ever to be a wrestler. I was doing musical theater, I moved back home from going to musical theater college and dropped that dream. I started watching WWE again, and it was the Wyatt family that I was watching that got me into wrestling again. I thought they were so cool. Me and my sister wanted to be the female version of them. The rest is history. We talked about that, and I immediately went online, ‘How do you get into wrestling?’ I looked up schools near me and started training a few months later. I thank the Wyatt family for that,” she said. “I was a theater kid. I was watching wrestling and was like, ‘this is aggressive theater.’ This is what I need to do.”

Shotzi began her career in 2014. 

Sadly, the wrestling world has lost Luke Harper (Brodie Lee) and Bray Wyatt over the years. Fans can find tributes to Wyatt by clicking here. 

Elsewhere during the interview, Shotzi revealed a pitch she wants to make to WWE digital. You can find her comments by clicking here. 

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