World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) star Shayna Baszler has admitted that Ronda Rousey has played a key part in her career.
Baszler is just days away from making her first entry into the WrestleMania.
"If it was up to, I guess not so much Ronda, but it was up to Ronda's mother, she would take full credit for the way my life and career has gone at the moment! There was a time where I was living with Ronda in a house together in Venice, she said.
"And I've always been a fan of wrestling and one day I happened to have wrestling on the TV, and I was watching Smackdown and Ronda's mum came to the living room and she goes ‘you are not watching this, you are studying this."
"she said ‘keep that in mind' and then walked away." Ronda set the four of us up in a way that we could concentrate on being exactly what we are."
"She set us up so that we could just concentrate on showing up at the gym. We were free to concentrate on being whatever it is we wanted to be and that is what really set the tone for where I am at today, she added.
Speaking on the topic of why is she called the 'Queen of Spades', Shayna said: "Well the ‘Queen of Spades' happens to be the card of fate, you know, I think it is very ominous sort of name to be attached to. It just kind of worked out that the first time I met Josh, it was at an after-party for an event that I fought at and I introduced myself and we were all having a good time."
"I was just going around doing some slide-of-hand card tricks, I am not great at it by any means but it’s interesting and I did this particular trick."
"And then I kept in touch with him, I started training with him, the first fight that I had with him as my coach, he told the announcer, without my knowledge, to announce me as Queen of Spades. So it just got stuck," she added.
The 39-year-old American also sent out her final message towards Becky Lynch ahead of their WrestleMania clash.
"I think that Becky Lynch, and her fans included, have gotten so used to seeing fake that for her to stand in a ring and talk about everything I do becoming a lie, that I'm about to show what happens when reality hits you. Everyone's about to get hit with a hard dose of reality and I am that reality," Baszler concluded.
