The LA Times has a new interview out with Shadia Bseiso who is a Dubai-based TV host, voice artist, CrossFit aficionado and Jiu Jitsu blue belt holder.
Bseiso will be a member of the January 2018 WWE Performance Center class.
We have included some highlights from her interview below. You can find the full interview HERE.
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On finding out she would be joining WWE on the final day of her try-out:
“On the fourth day, just before we all went home, Matt Bloom [WWE’s head trainer] pulled me aside and said, ‘Are you ready to move to the U.S.?'”
At first, Bseiso only told her sister, Arifa.
“How [do you] tell your parents you want to be the next WWE superstar? You don’t tell them except in person,” Bseiso said. She added that they were “extremely supportive” when she did finally tell them.
On her transition to the WWE Performance Center and into becoming a WWE character:
“I spend the whole day in my gym when I’m on my day off. Now it’s my job. That’s something I love,” she said.
She demurred from discussing plans for her character, though she joked that her friends are convinced she’ll “never play the villain.”
“I can’t wait to see what the reaction will be,” she said.
As WWE’s first Arab woman, Bseiso said she feels a sense of responsibility.
“It’s something I don’t take lightly,” she said.
“I don’t know wrestling yet, but I’m going to be as good as I can be,” she added. “I’m in this to headline Wrestlemania. I want it all.”
