Kamille Recalls WWE Tryout Experience And Thinking She Could Get A Day Job At The Performance Center

Long before Kamille was the dominant NWA World Women’s Champion, she was a prospective wrestler hoping to make it big, much like many of her peers.

Long before Kamille was the dominant NWA World Women’s Champion, she was a prospective wrestler hoping to make it big, much like many of her peers.

In an interview with Andrew Thompson, Kamille looked back on her WWE tryout experience and noted that she thought she could get a day job at the WWE Performance Center.

“Luckily, I had no idea about wrestling etiquette, any of the unspoken rules. Because I don’t have anyone in my family that is in this business. It’s a completely new venture for me, so I knew nothing about it. So when I moved down to Florida to train at Team 3D, I didn’t realize that I wouldn’t have time to like have a normal job. Because I had always had a very regular job up to that point. So one day, when I first moved there, I got resumes together and I was all dressed up, looking nice for interviews and stuff because I’m old-school. I like to go in person and drop off my resume and meet whoever’s in charge. While I was doing that, I was like, you know what, I knew the Performance Center is down here somewhere. At that point, you could not find the address for the Performance Center. As a female, I’m a super sleuth, so I somehow figured it out, I figured out where it was. I was like, I can just go there, drop off my resume, and I thought that I would be able to maybe work in marketing there and then train as a wrestler at the same time. I had no idea. So I just buzzed on the buzzer and I was June, ‘Hi, I’m interested in working here and also becoming a wrestler.’ They we’re like, ‘Uh, one second.’ Then they buzzed me in and I just talked to the manager of the building and yeah, [that] led to me getting a tryout. But they did explain to me, they were like, well you can’t work at a regular job and be a wrestler. They were like that’s not how it works. I didn’t know that,” Kamille said.

Kamille continued by emphasizing that she was glad that she didn’t know about the unwritten rules because otherwise she might not have gone to the wrestling school.

“I’m so glad that I was naive to the unspoken wrestling rules because let me tell you, if I would have done, because I hadn’t gone to the wrestling school yet, I literally had just moved there. The wrestling school started the next week. If I would have gone to the wrestling school and heard all these unspoken rules and stuff that week, I would have never done that. So I’m actually very happy that I didn’t know any of these little unspoken rules and stuff, so I just went for it,” she said.

Kamille is now one of the NWA’s top stars, and she will defend the NWA World Women’s Championship against Taya Valkyrie at NWA 74.

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