IMPACT Wrestling Wanted To Sign Roxanne Perez
IMPACT wanted Roxanne Perez before she signed with WWE NXT
Roxanne Perez currently stands at the top of the NXT women’s division, after Perez dethroned Mandy Rose earlier this week.
However, things could have gone differently for Perez if IMPACT Wrestling had their way, as Tommy Dreamer revealed on Busted Open Radio that IMPACT wanted to sign Perez before she ended up in WWE:
“Which means he’s [Booker T] a great trainer. He really is because you saw that [Roxanne Perez winning the NXT Women’s Title]. Think about the ride that she’s had in one year. I believe she went into the year as the Ring of Honor Women’s Champion and she’s leaving , she worked IMPACT, had one hell of a match and we were like, ‘We wanna sign her’ but she was like, ‘I got a tryout with WWE.’ ‘Cool, go. Hopefully it works out’ and boom, she’s ending the year defeating Mandy Rose who had one hell of a reign. Congratulations to you. You reinvented your career, you reinvented your life, you made yourself have so much value and then, you know, for Roxanne Perez, what a great year. What a great book-end year.
“How it is with IMPACT, she was open and honest about, ‘Hey, I have a WWE tryout’ and everybody, ‘Cool, go. Hopefully it works out for you…’ It wasn’t like, no, stay with us. It’s [a] much different vibe than how the industry used to be,” said Dreamer.
Perez - then known as Rok-C - wrestled for IMPACT in January 2022, dropping the ROH Women’s World Championship to Deonna Purrazzo.
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