Exclusive: Shazza McKenzie Talks About Her WWE Tryout And Rooming With Rhea Ripley

By Cassidy Haynes Last updated Oct 14, 2020

Australian Independent Wrestling Star Shazza McKenzie recently joined Bodyslam’s Cassidy Haynes and Dom Mallon on an episode of The Push Podcast.

Shazza was asked about her WWE tryout, and talked about rooming with current WWE NXT Superstar Rhea Ripley, who ended up getting signed.

When asked about her WWE tryout Shazza said:

“My tryout was in Melbourne, Australia in 2016 and they haven’t done a tryout since but they’ve had people come down to our independent matches as opposed to holding an actual tryout”
“My tryout that I did was the one that Rhea Ripley got signed from. She was my roommate, she thought I was crazy because I would get up at like 5AM to do my hair and makeup because I was like ‘this is it!’ and she would just wake up like 10 minutes beforehand because she’s naturally beautiful and just like put her hair up and ate a bloody cake and went to the tryout and I was like ‘cool, cool…natural, I get it!’

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You can listen to the entire episode of The Push podcast with Shazza McKenzie below.