Michin Explains Why She Created the ‘Long Back Attack’

Michin turned years of body-shaming into one of the funniest viral moments in WWE, and now she’s setting the record straight on where the “Long Back Attack” came from.

During an interview on the Ring the Belle podcast, the WWE star revealed how teasing from fans and co-workers inspired her to fully own the joke—and flip it into a twerking move during a match that lit up Twitter.

She admitted she’s been hearing the same insult for years: that she has no butt. Rather than let the hate get to her, Michin decided to weaponize the narrative and have fun with it in the ring.

“My whole life, even through volleyball, track, all of it—I have never ever had a butt. When I’m wrestling Jada, everyone’s like, ‘Oh my god, she doesn’t even have an ass.’ I’m getting all these tweets like, ‘Why is she wearing shorts when she don’t have ass?’ And it’s like—especially with my butt—I know it’s flat, and I refuse to get a BBL. If you got one, show it off. But for me, it’s just too much work. I’m going to do my best with squats, and whatever happens, happens. But at the end of the day, if I got a flat ass, then I got a flat ass—and I might as well use it.”

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The idea to turn the joke into an actual wrestling move came from years of being ribbed backstage.

“Shane Helms, Shelton [Benjamin], everybody’s always been making fun of my long back. So I said, you know what? I’mma try it once. I told Michael Cole and Stu, ‘Hey, I’m going to twerk—and it’s called the Long Back Attack.’ They were like, ‘Yup, okay.’ So I did it, and immediately everyone on Twitter was talking about it. Everybody in the back was dying laughing—and that’s all I wanted. I just wanted to make my co-workers laugh.”

But what really made it special was Michael Cole’s genuine reaction on commentary—not knowing what the move meant until after the fact.

“Next time I see Michael Cole, he’s like, ‘So… I got a lot of tweets about my commentary on that move. I didn’t know what it meant until I Googled it. Are you sure you’re comfortable with me saying that?’ And I told him, ‘You’re so considerate—but yes, I specifically didn’t tell you because I wanted your real-time reaction on commentary.’”

Michin turned what could have been a hurtful running joke into one of the most relatable and hilarious moments of her career—all while staying true to herself.

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