Jacy Jayne: I Took It Personal When I Was Told I Make A ‘Great Number Two’ In NXT, I Showed Everyone Why They Were Wrong

Jacy Jayne had a fire lit up inside of her.

On the May 27th edition of WWE NXT on the CW. The championship main event was for the NXT Women’s Championship between Stephanie Vaquer and Jacy Jayne, and in a shocking turn of events, Jayne would go on to win the NXT Women’s Championship for the first time in her career.

When asked about the steps she took to get to where she’s at, Jayne spoke about how personal she took it when she was told by WWE creative that she was good, but not good enough at that moment to be the #1 woman on their roster.

“I feel like at one point I just kind of got complacent and I was like, I’ve always been on TV. There’s never been a time that I was taken off of TV or I wasn’t in a storyline. It was just I was not, you know, like you said, one of the chosen ones, one of the main girls— But then I remember having a talk with creative and Shawn [Michaels] and they basically were like, you know, you need to be consistent. Like you’re a great number two, you’re just not a number one yet. And I took that so personal. Like that lit such a fire under me and I was like, ‘Oh, really? I’m not a number one? Okay.’ So then I got super motivated. I started taking night classes on top of my regular training at the PC. I was training my ass off for months just waiting for a chance. And then when I got the chance, I showed everyone, like, you’ve been sleeping on me for this long.” Jayne said to Brad GIlmore

Jayne recently defeated Masha Slamovich at TNA’s Slammiversary event to become the first-ever NXT Women’s Champion and TNA Knockouts Champion at the same time.

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