October 4, 2024 • 10 mins
Ahead of WWE Smackdown, LIVE from Nashville tonight, we caught up with two of the most dominant forces on the female roster, WWE Women's Champ Nia Jax & Ms. Money in the Bank, Tiffany Stratton.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Wayne d in studio with two of the WWE's
finest and I mean talent, So reel it in.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's too early to the hottest and it's too easy.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
To get my res on the George h hanging out
with Tiffany Stratton, Nia Jacks and let me say the
w W Women's Champion Nia Jacks and miss money in
the bank.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Tiffany Stratton.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I got to ask as you walk in with the
briefcase and the gorgeous championship, is that the bad thing
of winning all of a sudden you have new carry ons?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Yeah, Like getting through security is always quite a task.
It's always a bet. We're like, are they going to
pull our man.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Always turn and bet money. Yeah, bet you five dollars
he pulls it.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Well so because people don't understand, do you physically there's
multiple championships right of yours?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Maybe there's like a TV version then.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Like do you literally you the show's over and it
goes in your luggage and it goes home.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
This comes with me everywhere.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
I don't have multiple oh is I mean they have
some just in case because there was an issue when
I think Ronda Rowsey left it on a plane one time,
and they're not cheap, so they always make sure just
in case somebody happens to lose it or leave it somewhere.
But this comes everywhere with me.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
It's funny. We did years and years ago. We had
road Warrior Animal on with us and they had him
and Hawk both lost their tag titles and then found
them like years after they left the company.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
So he just had it. He's like, oh, look I
got a souvenir. I'm like, dude about outed him to TMZ.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
What your Your partnership feels natural and super not forced.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
So I want to start with Naya. What is that like?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Because you I feel like you have the ability to
bridge to whatever the next generation of Ladies is because
there was you know, there was there was the trist
Stratus you know era, and then it kind of moved
into your current era where it became the Ladies became
dominant performers once again, less divas yeah, and more featured.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
And it feels like you are the champion that could help,
you know, bring in whoever's next.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Yeah. Well, I've been saying that we are like this
is the best roster we've ever had. We are the
pinnacle of the women's like wrestling. And you know, we
have this young little lightning in a bottle, Tiffany Stratton,
and she encompasses everything. She's got the looks, she's got
the brain, she's got the athleticism, and that's kind of
the caliber we have right now in WWE. And I
(02:36):
think because she is so young and she's getting it
so well that it's an easy, uh partnership with me
and her because I have the knowledge of like, you know,
old school ways and how to be respectful and certain
like ways to deal with things, and she's learning as
she goes, and so it's easy for me to be
there to help her out because you know, she's I
call her the franchise. You know, she's the next ten
(02:58):
years of wrestling and she gets it. So it's it's
really cool to see the franchise.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
That's a pretty bad ass moniker, I'll.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Be honest, the franchise. Maybe she used that as my
little sloge.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
It feels like a T shirt. Yeah, but I'm gonna say,
I'm gonna edit this out.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
You should and then when it comes out, we'll clip it.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You have, Tiffany.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
It feels like there's so much trust and belief in
you within the company That doesn't happen to young superstars
and young wrestlers. But it feels like I don't want
to say they're throwing at you, because then it entails
you don't deserve it. But it feels like there's a
lot of they're investing a lot in your bank pun
intended right now, what does that mean for you to
walk in the door and immediately have people.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Back in you.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, I know, I've only been doing this for like
two and a half three years now, and you know,
I just got called up and kind of wasn't really
expecting to be kind of skyrocketed to you know, like
have been like being so over with the crowd and
then you know, money in the bank and stuff like that.
So it's definitely very reassuring, just because I do like
(04:03):
I have a problem with putting too much pressure on
myself and sometimes like when I underdeliver, I'm really hard
on myself. But like lately I've been kind of you know,
reassured with everything in the crowd and the in the
briefcase and stuff like that. So I feel like I'm
a lot more confident now, especially now versus you know
back of my nixt days and I definitely feel like
(04:23):
I am ready for whatever gets thrown at me.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Outside of your in ring performance.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
You have this ability and and I don't know if
it's something that's taught through learning promos, but it's it's
the stone cold effect where you can walk in which
sounds big, but let me explain where you can walk
in the ring and you can be like, I'm hearing
this town full of idiots and you'll get a huge
pop in the word idiots. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Is that something that just happened for you or or
is it something that you worked on?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, I mean I feel like it kind of just happened.
I wouldn't say, like, you know, I'm practicing at home
calling people idiots and stuff, but yeah, I don't know.
Maybe it's just who I am. It's what Tiffy Time's
all about. People just love to be called idiots.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
I mean, I just think Tiffy Time is such a
cool breath of fresh air to our division, and I
think it's what the audience has been wanting from us,
Like she brought in such a different era of being
like I am the hottest, the cutest, I'm a Barbie doll,
but I'm also a really good athlete. I can go hard.
I know that she was thrown a challenge. When she
first got called up. There was a double taping where
(05:34):
she had two singles matches in the same night and
a backstage and this is literally right after she got
called up, and she over delivered. And so I think
when the crowd started seeing that she was she's putting
in the work and that she's actually delivering in these
crazy matches, that they were there behind her. And so
she does have that effect, that stone cold effect where
they love to hate her but still love her.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, it's still people will hate you, but like your
t shirts are still going to sell up.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, oh before halfway through the show.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Which, by the way, you can buy this briefcase on merch.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I know.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Can I tell you somebody I heard an interview recently
where someone's like, oh, they should sell that, and I'm like,
did you hear that?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah? Yeah, I'm like, way to know the product.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah, so I actually knew that because my son liked
the Damien Priest. When he does, so, my daughter who's
thirteen's like, oh, maybe if they're selling that, you know tonight,
I can I'm like.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, it's a lot of his allowance.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I feel like you've also ushered in it. Maybe it's
different creative, different leadership. It used to be the female superstars,
you can be beautiful and go out and do beautiful
stuff and if you're a badass.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Well then just go Rex Shop.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
But now I feel like we're in an era where
you can do both and I want obviously you've been
with the company longer. Does that feel accurate?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yes, I mean I know that when I was previously booked,
it was more of like the slow lumbering giant sort
of bookie for me when I was wrestling, And so
I don't think the you know, the audience was really
getting behind it, because I think they love where it's
going now to where we all the women are athletes,
Like you can't sit here and pinpoint like every single
(07:11):
girl all the way down to NXC. We have top
tier athletes and they're all beautiful. So like we deliver both.
You know, it's the beauty and the beast effect for
all of us. And so I think the crowd is
it's what they've been wanting and we're delivering right now.
Plus you know, we have the tutelage of Triple H
who's really pushing us, the women to the next level.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I love that and it has to feel good as
well that you're we'll call it the second chapter of
your career. It feels like you. I don't want to
say you weren't having fun, but it feels like you're.
Every time you walk out your it's your face almost
says finally right.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Because it feel that way a little bit.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
It feels really good, you know. And the time away
was good because it helped reset myself. But I'm coming
in here for with a different like motivation, a different passion,
and I'm actually having just so much fun, you know,
with my backstage girls, with my Tiffy on the road.
I'm appreciating everything a lot more.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It does feel, and I pay attention to y'all on
social media. It does feel very like Sorority Big Sister,
like she's she's your what do they call him?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Like?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
SmackDown is at Bridgestone tonight, not a ton of tickets
left heading into what's going to be an amazing pl
in Atlanta, and it's like that these cards don't slow down,
and so you wait for a TV like, oh, this
will be as a fan, Oh, this will be like
a filler show because they got to figure. Yeah, there's
none of that anymore. It's bananas.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
So as you also perform, I want to ask, what
are some exciting things for you as a fan because
you get to watch the show as well.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Right, Yeah, I mean I love the live in Rha
and Dom story. I think that is so fun. I
think that's like I just love sitting back and watching
that story. Like I think Raw's very interesting for me.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
I watched some really cool deep stories, and I think,
you know, we focus on what we do and so
we're not to focus on what everybody else is. So
when we get to sit back and watch, like obviously
I'm invested in the Bloodline, so I don't know every
anything that's going on with them, and I enjoy watching
like what they're going to bring the table. I love
watching solos like progression in his character and his roles.
(09:14):
It's yeah, even other women. Like tonight you get to
see Mitchen and Chelsea Green in a dumpster match, Like
that's something that we're actually looking forward to.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You know, we don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Exactly what's going to happen, but like we sorry, we
become fans as.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Well, and she says it's not okay, but the fans say,
you can cash in on.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
What the.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Who got her that custom briefcase?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, but if she cashes in, you can keep the briefcase.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
No, I'm the chamber now, it's my time, my time,
it's my time, it's our time.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Tag titles, Uh, that's our next.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Actually, where we've been eyeing Bianca and Jat.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
You know we want all the gold.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Why not, got a crown, already, got a title, got
the brief I'm just.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Saying, locked and loaded with gold.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Thank you for coming to hang I appreciate you. Thank
you so much. That was a lot of fun.
It's Wayne d in studio with two of the WWE's
finest and I mean talent, So reel it in.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's too early to the hottest and it's too easy.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
To get my res on the George h hanging out
with Tiffany Stratton, Nia Jacks and let me say the
w W Women's Champion Nia Jacks and miss money in
the bank.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Tiffany Stratton.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I got to ask as you walk in with the
briefcase and the gorgeous championship, is that the bad thing
of winning all of a sudden you have new carry ons?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Yeah, Like getting through security is always quite a task.
It's always a bet. We're like, are they going to
pull our man.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Always turn and bet money. Yeah, bet you five dollars
he pulls it.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Well so because people don't understand, do you physically there's
multiple championships right of yours?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Maybe there's like a TV version then.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Like do you literally you the show's over and it
goes in your luggage and it goes home.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
This comes with me everywhere.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
I don't have multiple oh is I mean they have
some just in case because there was an issue when
I think Ronda Rowsey left it on a plane one time,
and they're not cheap, so they always make sure just
in case somebody happens to lose it or leave it somewhere.
But this comes everywhere with me.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
It's funny. We did years and years ago. We had
road Warrior Animal on with us and they had him
and Hawk both lost their tag titles and then found
them like years after they left the company.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
So he just had it. He's like, oh, look I
got a souvenir. I'm like, dude about outed him to TMZ.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
What your Your partnership feels natural and super not forced.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
So I want to start with Naya. What is that like?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Because you I feel like you have the ability to
bridge to whatever the next generation of Ladies is because
there was you know, there was there was the trist
Stratus you know era, and then it kind of moved
into your current era where it became the Ladies became
dominant performers once again, less divas yeah, and more featured.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
And it feels like you are the champion that could help,
you know, bring in whoever's next.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Yeah. Well, I've been saying that we are like this
is the best roster we've ever had. We are the
pinnacle of the women's like wrestling. And you know, we
have this young little lightning in a bottle, Tiffany Stratton,
and she encompasses everything. She's got the looks, she's got
the brain, she's got the athleticism, and that's kind of
the caliber we have right now in WWE. And I
(02:36):
think because she is so young and she's getting it
so well that it's an easy, uh partnership with me
and her because I have the knowledge of like, you know,
old school ways and how to be respectful and certain
like ways to deal with things, and she's learning as
she goes, and so it's easy for me to be
there to help her out because you know, she's I
call her the franchise. You know, she's the next ten
(02:58):
years of wrestling and she gets it. So it's it's
really cool to see the franchise.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
That's a pretty bad ass moniker, I'll.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Be honest, the franchise. Maybe she used that as my
little sloge.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
It feels like a T shirt. Yeah, but I'm gonna say,
I'm gonna edit this out.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
You should and then when it comes out, we'll clip it.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You have, Tiffany.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
It feels like there's so much trust and belief in
you within the company That doesn't happen to young superstars
and young wrestlers. But it feels like I don't want
to say they're throwing at you, because then it entails
you don't deserve it. But it feels like there's a
lot of they're investing a lot in your bank pun
intended right now, what does that mean for you to
walk in the door and immediately have people.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Back in you.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, I know, I've only been doing this for like
two and a half three years now, and you know,
I just got called up and kind of wasn't really
expecting to be kind of skyrocketed to you know, like
have been like being so over with the crowd and
then you know, money in the bank and stuff like that.
So it's definitely very reassuring, just because I do like
(04:03):
I have a problem with putting too much pressure on
myself and sometimes like when I underdeliver, I'm really hard
on myself. But like lately I've been kind of you know,
reassured with everything in the crowd and the in the
briefcase and stuff like that. So I feel like I'm
a lot more confident now, especially now versus you know
back of my nixt days and I definitely feel like
(04:23):
I am ready for whatever gets thrown at me.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Outside of your in ring performance.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
You have this ability and and I don't know if
it's something that's taught through learning promos, but it's it's
the stone cold effect where you can walk in which
sounds big, but let me explain where you can walk
in the ring and you can be like, I'm hearing
this town full of idiots and you'll get a huge
pop in the word idiots. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Is that something that just happened for you or or
is it something that you worked on?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, I mean I feel like it kind of just happened.
I wouldn't say, like, you know, I'm practicing at home
calling people idiots and stuff, but yeah, I don't know.
Maybe it's just who I am. It's what Tiffy Time's
all about. People just love to be called idiots.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
I mean, I just think Tiffy Time is such a
cool breath of fresh air to our division, and I
think it's what the audience has been wanting from us,
Like she brought in such a different era of being
like I am the hottest, the cutest, I'm a Barbie doll,
but I'm also a really good athlete. I can go hard.
I know that she was thrown a challenge. When she
first got called up. There was a double taping where
(05:34):
she had two singles matches in the same night and
a backstage and this is literally right after she got
called up, and she over delivered. And so I think
when the crowd started seeing that she was she's putting
in the work and that she's actually delivering in these
crazy matches, that they were there behind her. And so
she does have that effect, that stone cold effect where
they love to hate her but still love her.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, it's still people will hate you, but like your
t shirts are still going to sell up.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, oh before halfway through the show.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Which, by the way, you can buy this briefcase on merch.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I know.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Can I tell you somebody I heard an interview recently
where someone's like, oh, they should sell that, and I'm like,
did you hear that?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah? Yeah, I'm like, way to know the product.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah, so I actually knew that because my son liked
the Damien Priest. When he does, so, my daughter who's
thirteen's like, oh, maybe if they're selling that, you know tonight,
I can I'm like.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, it's a lot of his allowance.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I feel like you've also ushered in it. Maybe it's
different creative, different leadership. It used to be the female superstars,
you can be beautiful and go out and do beautiful
stuff and if you're a badass.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Well then just go Rex Shop.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
But now I feel like we're in an era where
you can do both and I want obviously you've been
with the company longer. Does that feel accurate?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yes, I mean I know that when I was previously booked,
it was more of like the slow lumbering giant sort
of bookie for me when I was wrestling, And so
I don't think the you know, the audience was really
getting behind it, because I think they love where it's
going now to where we all the women are athletes,
Like you can't sit here and pinpoint like every single
(07:11):
girl all the way down to NXC. We have top
tier athletes and they're all beautiful. So like we deliver both.
You know, it's the beauty and the beast effect for
all of us. And so I think the crowd is
it's what they've been wanting and we're delivering right now.
Plus you know, we have the tutelage of Triple H
who's really pushing us, the women to the next level.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I love that and it has to feel good as
well that you're we'll call it the second chapter of
your career. It feels like you. I don't want to
say you weren't having fun, but it feels like you're.
Every time you walk out your it's your face almost
says finally right.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Because it feel that way a little bit.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
It feels really good, you know. And the time away
was good because it helped reset myself. But I'm coming
in here for with a different like motivation, a different passion,
and I'm actually having just so much fun, you know,
with my backstage girls, with my Tiffy on the road.
I'm appreciating everything a lot more.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It does feel, and I pay attention to y'all on
social media. It does feel very like Sorority Big Sister,
like she's she's your what do they call him?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Like?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
SmackDown is at Bridgestone tonight, not a ton of tickets
left heading into what's going to be an amazing pl
in Atlanta, and it's like that these cards don't slow down,
and so you wait for a TV like, oh, this
will be as a fan, Oh, this will be like
a filler show because they got to figure. Yeah, there's
none of that anymore. It's bananas.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
So as you also perform, I want to ask, what
are some exciting things for you as a fan because
you get to watch the show as well.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Right, Yeah, I mean I love the live in Rha
and Dom story. I think that is so fun. I
think that's like I just love sitting back and watching
that story. Like I think Raw's very interesting for me.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
I watched some really cool deep stories, and I think,
you know, we focus on what we do and so
we're not to focus on what everybody else is. So
when we get to sit back and watch, like obviously
I'm invested in the Bloodline, so I don't know every
anything that's going on with them, and I enjoy watching
like what they're going to bring the table. I love
watching solos like progression in his character and his roles.
(09:14):
It's yeah, even other women. Like tonight you get to
see Mitchen and Chelsea Green in a dumpster match, Like
that's something that we're actually looking forward to.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You know, we don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Exactly what's going to happen, but like we sorry, we
become fans as.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Well, and she says it's not okay, but the fans say,
you can cash in on.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
What the.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Who got her that custom briefcase?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, but if she cashes in, you can keep the briefcase.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
No, I'm the chamber now, it's my time, my time,
it's my time, it's our time.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Tag titles, Uh, that's our next.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Actually, where we've been eyeing Bianca and Jat.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
You know we want all the gold.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Why not, got a crown, already, got a title, got
the brief I'm just.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Saying, locked and loaded with gold.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Thank you for coming to hang I appreciate you. Thank
you so much. That was a lot of fun.
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