Raquel Rodriguez sets herself other than the WWE women’s roster by towering over most of her competitors. Naturally, growing up, Rodriguez was at all times taller than most of her peers, which led her to idolizing two specific WWE Hall of Famers after she convinced her father to permit her to follow him into the wrestling industry.
“In fact, I gravitated to the massive girls because I used to be so big and different after I was little, ?” she recalled during an interview with “The Wrestling Classic.” “So, I actually gravitated towards Chyna, after all, because I believed she was so beautiful and powerful and I loved that about her and Beth Phoenix, too, like Beth was just this ‘Glamazon.'” Rodriguez then claimed she was often called an “Amazon” by children growing up, but that she at all times as a substitute had aspirations to be a “Glamazon” as a substitute, like Beth Phoenix. “So, I actually looked as much as those two women in wrestling; they really inspired me.”
Rodriguez’s father, Ricky “Desperado” Gonzalez, was also a wrestler, and out of doors of Chyna and Phoenix, was one in every of her inspirations growing up. Nevertheless, his initial response to her wanting to be a wrestler wasn’t positive. “My dad was like ‘No, no, you possibly can’t! My daughter’s not gonna be a female wrestler, wrestling in bikinis! No!'” she stated. Nevertheless, the 2 eventually made a deal where she would first graduate from college before her dad supported her profession selection.
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