Strauss informs that her Manager/boyfriend began knocking on doors to get her an opportunity at WrestleMania. Things weren’t looking good but at some point Mick Foley vouched for her, and apparently even sent a text to Vince McMahon, urging him to “be in the Nita Strauss business”. She rehearsed her performance for the first time at 1:30 PM that day, an hour and a half before doors opened, and that was very different for her.
Luckily WrestleMania is a finely-tuned machine and things went off without a hitch. She mentions that at one point McMahon approached her and told her to jump at a certain point during her performance. She couldn’t see the huge video screen behind her so she didn’t know what cue he was talking about. She smiled and agreed but then had to ask production assistants to help her figure out what McMahon was talking about.
Strauss mentions that she has a new record coming out and one of her songs is the current theme song for NXT Takeover: War Games. That’s a huge item scratched off her bucket list.
That sums up this week’s episode of The Jim Ross Report. You can listen to the show yourself anytime here, and I’ll catch ya next week for another recap!
