When I was in NXT, I never wrestled on a TakeOver. I didn't have too many high-profile matches: I probably wrestled about 10 matches in total on NXT TV, including the one championship match against Bayley, which was so much fun and my favorite match in NXT.
I worked hard every single day to become the NXT Women's Champion, and first of all to be the first-ever person to be from NXT to defend a championship from here at WrestleMania is absolutely insane.
To be able to be the first person from NXT to defend their NXT Championship at WrestleMania is awesome and I love making history.
The atmosphere we get with NXT and NXT fans, they're a die-hard group. They care deeply about NXT.
Once you start hearing a buzz about somebody, you want to check them out because you never know if, and, or when exactly, they may come to NXT because NXT obviously has the best talent in the world.
If I can be the champion of NXT I don't even know how to put it into words. It would be so humbling and appreciative, but also I would prove to everyone why I should be NXT Women's Champion.
Emma gave me some of my favorite matches - the NXT Women's Tournament and then NXT ArRIVAL.
I didn't feel that I was ready to leave NXT. When I was called up to SmackDown, I was very nervous. I hadn't done many of the things at NXT that I thought I was supposed to. I didn't have a TakeOver match. I never held the title. I only had a few matches on NXT TV and to be called up and told, 'Well, here you go!'
When I left NXT, I was kind of mad that I was never NXT champ, so when I got to the main roster, that was my first goal.
When I won the NXT women's title from Natalya at Full Sail, becoming the second-ever woman's champion for NXT, that's when I knew, 'Okay, I'm doing the right thing,' and that I could do this.
I would never write anything off the table. But my goal is to build my legacy in NXT and, with my legacy, build what NXT is.
If I were to doubt myself, I wouldn't even have a chance to be competing for the NXT Women's Championship.
I wanted to be a part of WWE and part of NXT first, as, if I went to 'Raw' or 'SmackDown' right away, I would always wonder what NXT would have been like.
When I went to NXT U.K. and I was part of the women's championship tournament, I saw all of those people and I was absolutely floored. I had never wrestled in front of that many people before.
We all just want NXT to be the best product we can do. I don't care about what's going on anywhere else, we just get on with what we do, which is competitive pro wrestling and that's what NXT is.
With NXT there are always going to be a few people who are still developing because that's what NXT is, but that's really exciting because you get to see them thrown into the deep end.