During a recent interview with Denise Salcedo, AEW star Harley Cameron discussed her commitment to the ring, highlighting her struggles with the physical demands of wrestling and her determination to enhance.
You may try some highlights from the podcast below:
On getting the physical side of the job down: “Truthfully, the entertainment side of stuff got here easy to me. I had a history in fitness and athletics in alternative ways but after I actually got within the ring and I felt running the ropes, taking bumps, every thing that got here with the actual physical side, it was a really rude awakening because I feel like until you do it, you don’t ever appreciate how difficult it’s. A component of me thought, well, I’ve done did all of those bodybuilding shows but that doesn’t make me capable of do what these amazing athletes can do. It’s like what you said, it just really got here all the way down to me saying, if I need this bad enough, I want to work.”
On her dedication to improving within the ring: “I loved promo days because I believed, oh, that is the stuff I’m good at after which I used to be terrified to do quite a lot of stuff and I used to be uncomfortable with quite a lot of the physicality but I believed that if I pushed myself in ways in which I’m uncomfortable and I just keep training, then I’ll improve. Still to this present day, I land from the airport and I am going to the ring and I train. I just put the work in within the ring because I do know that’s where I even have to. I’m very recent to the in-ring work, but I even have amazing coaches and folks around me that I just need to learn from. Definitely, I want to expand the repetition within the ring, that’s what I’ll all the time proceed to wish to grow on. You realize, I’ll train ceaselessly. I’m just so keen about it that I just need to continue to learn and recovering. That’s definitely the toughest part for me, the physicality. The opposite stuff, I feel pretty comfortable with.”
