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I was in my junior year of high school and I had been playing soccer and basketball almost my entire life, and I wanted a change of pace. I wanted to do something more, something different. That's when I found an MMA gym about 45 minutes from my house and fell in love with the idea of becoming a professional fighter.
Sonya Deville
Life
Love
Change
School
Year
Fighter
High
Minutes
High School
Entire
About
Entire Life
Something
Gym
More
Had
Almost
Idea
Fell
House
Becoming
Been
Junior
Junior Year
Different
Wanted
Pace
Soccer
Professional
Found
Playing
Basketball
Acting is my love.
Sonya Deville
Love
Acting
I've had tattoos since I was like 16, but if you would have asked the younger me to get a tattoo that symbolized my sexuality, I would have told you no, because that's how not okay I used to be with it.
Sonya Deville
Me
You
Okay
Would
Sexuality
Had
Since
Like
Because
How
Get
Tattoo
Tattoos
Younger
Asked
Used
Symbolized
The Women's Evolution was just starting as I was getting into 'Tough Enough.' I've always had great role models coming in and watching the Becky Lynches and the Charlottes, the Bayleys, the Sashas move that movement and then being able to be part of it.
Sonya Deville
Great
Women
Tough
Enough
Evolution
Able
Had
Part
Always
Coming
Role
Role Models
Models
Getting
Move
Just
Movement
Being
Then
Watching
Starting
I don't want it to be Sonya Deville, the gay wrestler. I want it to be Sonya Deville, the awesome performer who happens to be gay.
Sonya Deville
Gay
Awesome
Wrestler
Performer
Want
Happens
Who
I'm the first-ever openly gay female in the WWE.
Sonya Deville
Gay
Openly
WWE
Female
I realized - and I think I learned this at a young age - that anything that's worth anything, you're going to take a risk to get there and it's not going to be easy.
Sonya Deville
You
Age
Worth
Young
Think
Easy
Risk
Take
Learned
Get
Going
Young Age
Anything
Realized
Sonya is the way she is for a reason and I love enlightening the fans on what those things are because so many people are going through similar experiences and have amazing stories I love to hear and relate to myself.
Sonya Deville
Love
Myself
People
Amazing
Fans
Relate
Way
Those
Similar
Through
She
Because
Hear
Going
So Many People
Experiences
Stories
Reason
Many
Things
Enlightening
Spreading the positivity is just as important as telling the difficult stories.
Sonya Deville
Important
Difficult
Positivity
Telling
Spreading
Just
Stories
Lucha libre culture was part of my wrestling upbringing. I'm Filipino, so it wasn't a part of my normal upbringing, but it's what gave me my start. I get a lot of my technical and high-flying wrestling from that.
T. J. Perkins
Me
Culture
Gave
Wrestling
Part
Normal
Lot
Upbringing
Get
Filipino
Technical
Start
I try to take each moment at a time.
T. J. Perkins
Time
Try
Take
Moment
Each
I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
T. J. Perkins
Those
Super
Pretty
Tournaments
Like
Were
Up
Grew
Cool
Things
Watching
I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
T. J. Perkins
Parents
Airlines
Kind
Both
Environment
Because
Up
Grew
Worked
I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.
T. J. Perkins
Year
Mexico
Canada
Japan
Europe
Lived
It's really exciting to be able to represent the cruiserweights and go to Monday Night Raw. I grew up watching Monday Night Raw, and it's really a big dream of mine to perform on that stage.
T. J. Perkins
Big
Stage
Monday
Mine
Dream
Able
Raw
Exciting
Perform
Go
Up
Represent
Grew
Really
Monday Night
Watching
Night
When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.
T. J. Perkins
Old
Honor
Ring
Between
New
Sort
Years
Committed
Maybe
In-Between
Place
Japan
Really
Floating
Rich Swann is probably the only guy who's more charismatic among this whole bunch than me, and I think it showed in our match.
T. J. Perkins
Me
Rich
Think
Our
Charismatic
Guy
More
Only
Match
Bunch
Than
Whole
Among
I love getting in the ring with Britt Baker. She is one of my favorite people that I got in the ring with.
Tessa Blanchard
Love
People
Favorite
Favorite People
Ring
Baker
She
Got
Getting
Both my stepdad and my dad have said, 'Follow your heart and your dreams, but Tessa, this is a business and you need to become the best.' They don't sugarcoat things and I'm very, very blessed for that.
Tessa Blanchard
Dreams
Best
You
Business
Heart
Follow Your Heart
Blessed
Become
Follow
Both
Said
Very
Your
Your Dreams
Dad
Things
Need
I don't want to be good, I want to be great.
Tessa Blanchard
Good
Great
Want
Witnessing the crowd come to their feet mid-match, that's the ultimate sign of respect.
Tessa Blanchard
Respect
Sign
Crowd
Feet
Come
Witnessing
Ultimate
Women today are respected as athletes now and that's a really cool thing to see.
Tessa Blanchard
Today
Women
Respected
Athletes
See
Really
Cool
Cool Thing
Now
Thing
I was part of the first ever women's match to ever be televised in China. That's something no one can take away from me.
Tessa Blanchard
Me
Women
First
Televised
Something
Take
No-One
Part
Match
China
Away
Ever
I don't think I'd be the wrestler or the athlete that I am today if I didn't have some of the intergender matches that I have.
Tessa Blanchard
Today
Think
Athlete
Some
Wrestler
Matches
Am
And I'm so grateful to have that family name and continue my family's legacy, but I'm also very excited to create my own.
Tessa Blanchard
Family
Grateful
Own
My Own
Excited
Name
Also
Continue
Very
Legacy
Create
Depending on what country I go to, my style might be a little bit different and my tactics might change a little bit, but at the end of the day, I'm still Tessa Blanchard and I'm still the same wrestler.
Tessa Blanchard
Day
Change
End Of The Day
Country
Style
Bit
Wrestler
Tactics
Still
Go
End
Same
Depending
Different
Little
Little Bit
Might
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