VertVixen is grateful for Dustin Rhodes.
In 2020, in-ring veteran Dustin Rhodes opened up his personal professional wrestling coaching college referred to as the Rhodes Wrestling Academy. Quick ahead to 2024, the franchise has expanded now embrace a promotion referred to as the Rhodes Wrestling Affiliation, with its debut present, titled Texas Fall Fury, going down on November 21. There, “Participant One” VertVixen cemented herself because the inaugural RWA Ladies’s Champion with a victory over Jael and Sophia Rose.
“That is my second time being an inaugural girls’s champion,” Vixen advised WrestleZone‘s Ella Jay. “And to say that I’m grateful is simply the premise of it, however in all honesty, one among my objectives on this enterprise was to make historical past and was to essentially construct it up for everyone who comes after me and be glad about those that got here earlier than me as properly. However with the ability to be the inaugural girls’s champion for Rhodes Wrestling Affiliation underneath Dustin Rhodes, let’s speak about historical past. That is without doubt one of the biggest honors that would ever be bestowed on me. So thanks Dustin.
“I’m extraordinarily grateful for this, however on the finish of the day, all people knew it was going to be VertVixen that was going to be the inaugural champion,” Vixen added.
Dustin Rhodes Is Now Like A ‘Wrestling Dad’
Vixen’s connection to Dustin Rhodes extends again to her early days as an additional for All Elite Wrestling, the place Rhodes resides as a coach and an in-ring performer. After opening the Rhodes Wrestling Academy in Austin, Texas, Rhodes later invited Vixen to coach with him. From there, Rhodes naturally emerged as a “wrestling dad” to the rising star as properly.
“Dustin has taught me so much professionally,” Vixen stated. “Truthfully, working again with him with the coaching stuff, there was plenty of the ‘Right here’s the fitting methods to work for TV. Right here’s the fitting methods to work with the digital camera.’ Easy issues like character and entrance stuff, these sorts of issues which can be simply actually necessary that every one of us ought to have and know.”
In response to Vixen, Rhodes’ continued steerage extends properly past the ring. In truth, he has helped her overcome some private fears.
“He additionally helped me break some fears with some issues that I used to be working via,” Vixen stated. “And to be fully trustworthy, him and his spouse have all the time simply been there for me when it’s come to love, ‘Hey, I would like recommendation on this and I need assistance with this, and what do I do with this case?’ I’ve all the time been in a position to name him and his spouse up they usually’ve all the time been very, extraordinarily useful for that.”
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