AEW star and current CMLL World Women’s Champion Willow Nightingale spoke with Renee Paquette on a number of topics, including how she has been living her lifelong dream of competing for CMLL and NJPW.
Nightingale said, “I didn’t have the opportunity to go to Japan, it didn’t come up until I had just gotten signed to AEW.” “So I did a quick ten-day tour, and I told myself, ‘Well, that’ll probably be it because now I’m just gonna be at TV week in and week out,’ and we have some great partners in New Japan and CMLL. If anything, it just started, and so I’ve been able to really live these lifelong dreams that I didn’t think were possible once I got signed. I try to be aware of things as I’m living in them, like let it sink in. I do try, but sometimes it’s hard because we live so fast, it’s like, okay, what’s next? What’s the next day? Where do I have to fly?”
“But the thing that really hit me, like I am a crybaby, I’m sentimental, but I don’t cry about wrestling a lot. The first time I cried about wrestling in probably over five years, since I broke my neck, was I read something online about how I was one of the first women to hold a major championship for a Japanese company, an American company, and a Mexican company, three major championships. That was the moment that I was like, ‘Holy shit,’ and I sat in my car and I cried because it sunk in, like, ‘Oh, you’re doing really cool stuff.’ I’m just proud. It just kind of made me realize the scope of it all.”
You can check out Nightingale’s comments in the video below.
(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)
