Pro Wrestlings Tatum Paxley Igniting NXT On CW Next Level High Energy Action

Since day one, Tatum Paxley has embraced being the outcast.After several stints of trying to fit in, Paxley finally embraced her misfit side and she began to see success in the ring as a direct result.The peculiar Paxley is often seen backstage playing with her creepy dolls that seem to resemble her fellow NXT Superstars and it's because of this that she's developed a hyper fixation on Superstars like Lyra Valkyria, Gigi Dolin, Shotzi and others.Tatum, or Tater as Valkyria calls her, finally found a home in The Culling alongside Shawn Spears, Niko Vance and Izzi Dame, and that boosted her to winning the NXT Women's Championship at NXT Halloween Havoc 2025.Paxley's behavior teeters on the line of playful and harmful depending on what kind of mood she's in so act accordingly when you see her.


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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I guess it's just a radio thing. One thought per break.
Why have only one podcast when there are fifty thousand
things moving around us all at one time? Why are
you shoving that into a potato bag aro? Dot net?
A R R O E dot net? Seventeen unbelievable podcasts
are waiting for you. Good morning, How are you doing today, Tatum?

Speaker 2 (00:20):
I'm wonderful. How are you doing well?

Speaker 1 (00:21):
I'm doing fantastic, and I'm very excited to share a
conversation with you because I will sit here and brag
up NXT left and right, because I believe that you
guys are doing what we've been begging for for decades,
and that is give us the next level. You are
living up to your name on NXT.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Oh, thank you so much. That means so much to me.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
What is it like for you to step into that
role knowing what's happened long before any of us even
got here, Because I mean, professional wrestling is nothing new.
It's been with me all the way back to my grandfathers.
Sitting there with me on a Sunday morning, there's like.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
There's literally no word for me to describe, to describe it,
you know, it's such like a one of a million opportunity,
and even when I got signed, you know, people would
ask me how do you feel? And I didn't know
what to say, Like there's just so many emotions and
feelings towards it, and it's saying like, well, how did
you feel when you finally won the NFC Women's title,

(01:22):
And it's it's crazy because I've been asked this question
and I struggle to answer it because, for a lack
of better words, the word is just awesome, you know,
but like that's not like that's not the word I
want to use. There's like a word that I can't
figure out what it is because it's such an insane
feeling just to beginning to do this, to.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Be inside those matches. I always looked at it as
being the playground. I mean, so many people see it
as the squared circle, or they see it as the
mad or they see it as a ring. It's always
a playground because that to me, I watch your guys's eyes,
I see your planning, I see what you're doing, and
you're so many light years ahead of us who are viewing.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Oh, thank you so much. I love the term playground too.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
That's probably what I'm going to start saying as well,
but I know it's definitely it's just a.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Feeling, you know, being in that ring. And then there's.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Still so much, especially for me to learn because being
four years in the business, that's that's still new.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
You know, people have been doing this for a long time.
Like you said, like, I'm.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Still very new in this business, especially someone that didn't grow.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Up with wrestling.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
I'm having to grow into it and I learned orn
more every single day that I'm here, and I'm fortunate
that I get to learn.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
And you know, what better place than the performance center.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
So now growing into it, I mean, that's the first
time that I've ever heard something like that, because I
mean I have sat down with Rick Flair and the
big names of wrestling and they've never said that. And
now you've got my imagination as well as my passion
for the sport because you grow into it, which means
to me that's long lasting.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Thank you. I hope this is a you know, really
long journey. I'm doing everything I can to make it
a long journey.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yeah, I didn't. I didn't grow up with wrestling, but
obviously I knew.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
What it was like. Everybody knows the name WWE, and.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
It's so funny, like I'm almost embarrassed to say this,
but when I was working at a supplement store, I
remember we brought in like shaker bottles, like stuff you
would shake protein in, and we brought in a line
of like WWE like merchandise, and I remember people asking.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Me like, what is this and I was like, I'm
not familiar.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
And then all of a sudden, you know, like now,
how I like to say, I've been growing into wrestling.
I look back at that, I'm like, wow, things have changed.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
You know, it's so different.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Please do not move. There's more with Tatum Pasley coming
up next from the NXT. We are spending time with
Tatum Pasley growing into that that personality that you've got
to become each and every week on NXT on the CW.
I mean this righting, I mean this now is your lifestyle,
this is your legacy in the making. How do you

(04:08):
protect it and how do you continue to expand? Because
to me, you're in a position where you get to
meet new people every day, literally new people.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
No, absolutely, So the way that I plan to expand
is continuing what my number one goal has been the
past four years. It's going to be my number one
goal moving forward as long as I'm here in WWE.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Is to connect with that audience. That is all I've
ever wanted to do.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
And you know, I've been asked many times before I
was NXT Women's Champion.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Like don't you want to be champion? Do you want
to get.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Called up to Raw or SmackDown? And my answer to
that was like, that's cool. I just want to connect
with the audience, you know. I want to prove I
can do that with or without this title, with or
without being Raw or SmackDown, Like, I want to connect
with you, and I feel like I've done a pretty.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Good job at doing it. But I do know like
whenever the.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Time comes to be on Raw or SmackDown or even
having this title, it does open the door for a
larger audience for me to connect to.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
So the way I plan to expand is.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
To just keep that as my number one goal, to
be relatable, to be human.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
And I just feel like that's kind of what's helped
me get so far, at least where I am right now.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
You're speaking my street when you talk like this, when
you say that you want to put the people first,
and the reason why I bring that up is because
I've always lived by the mantra. People are not happy
to see me. What they are is they're happy that
I see them. And that's what I just heard in
your voice. You enjoy seeing them before they see you.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
So much they.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
I can't even explain to you what the people like,
truly truly mean to me in this business, like they
are everything, you know, their reactions, their emotions, like their.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Feelings, it is.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
It's entirely what we do, you know. It's not like
I'm not chasing this title, you know, like I'm thrilled
to have it, and now that I have it, I
can represent those people that aren't always on top. Because
my character, you know, was not somebody that was always
in the spotlight, you know, and and I knew that
and I was happy about that, and now that I

(06:15):
have this title, it represents that. But like I said earlier,
with or without it, the job is to just connect
and relate.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
CW has really embraced what it is that you're doing.
And the reason why is because when I was a
kid watching professional wrestling, it's what we did very early
on Sunday mornings or after midnight.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
Oh are they are expanding us and sending us out Like,
I'm so thankful to CW. They actually allowed me and
my best friend Izzy Dame Trick Williams, Josh Briggs.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
They sent us over to NASCAR wow, which I I.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Don't know anything about Nascar and I show up there
and I'm like, oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Like this is like this is my life.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
This is so crazy, like and you know, the CW
like they were with us holding my hand like sholling
me everything.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
It wasn't incredible.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
Wow. Where can people go to find out more about you?
Because I want them to really get into your journey
growing forward and NXT is just the start.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah. Absolutely so.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
You can also follow my Instagram at Tatum Pasley Underscore WWT.
I try to be as active as I can on there,
but I also have a subscription page on there where
I'm posting every day. I like to have stories where
I just say, okay, I'm yapping now and I just
talk about God knows what what I'm cooking and eating.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
I'm pretty active on that as well.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
You can follow me on Twitter, which I believe is
just at Tatum Pasley. I'll just post a random thought
in my head. You know, if I'm thinking it, I'll
just go in there and post it.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
You know, Well, when you come to Charlotte with NXT,
we've got to go to the Charlotte Motor Speedway because
in reality we are NASCAR country. I can show you
so much Nascar.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Oh my god, oh I can only imagine.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Well, you have yourself a brilliant day today.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Okay, thank you so much for having me