Nia Jax was the latest guest on Insight with Chris Van Vliet. They spoke about a number of topics and one of those topics was her spots in the Men’s Royal Rumble in 2019.
Below is what Nia Jax had to say about her spots in the Men’s Royal Rumble Match:
“Yeah, it was Andrade, it was Ali, Randy, Rey and Dolph. So they were in at the time, and they’re like, ‘Yeah, now you’re gonna come in, you’re gonna drop Truth, and then when you slide in, you’re gonna start cleaning house and then you’re going to eliminate Ali, and then there’s going to be a spot with Andrade and Dolph and Rey, and then you’re RKO’d.’ And I was like, ‘I’m going to get what?’ They’re like, yeah, you’re going to take an RKO. Before that, it was like, ‘Yeah, you’re going to go to tackle Randy, and then this happens.’ I was like, Okay. So I was just sitting there going but what if I fck up the RKO? That’s one of the most iconic moves in WWE history. Everybody already hated me. So then I look at Randy, and Randy’s super cool. But you know, Randy has a reputation of being like, you know. I was like, Oh, fck. I’m like, Randy. He’s like, Yeah? I’m like, ‘I’m nervous. I don’t want to fck up your RKO.’ And he was like, ‘Don’t worry about it kid. Just when you turn left, I’ll take you. You just turn to the left, and the rest I’ll handle.’ I was like, okay. So out of that whole match, that was the most nervous. I was like, fck. I just can’t fck up the RKO. We get into it. I beat up Truth, poor Truth, and beat the sht out of Truth. Go in there and run the spots. Go to tackle Randy. He takes a bump for me, and I was like, fck, did I just hit him too hard? In my mind, I’m thinking sht, did I just hit Randy too hard? Meanwhile, I hear Kim [Randy Orton’s wife] cussing me out. She’s yelling at me. I’m like, oh sht. And then whatever we run through, do the RKO, I take the 619, the RKO. I’m like, Holy sht, this is not happening. Then they dump me, then they drop kick me off the apron. When you’re in the moment, you don’t realize that. When I was done, I was like, that was a massive moment for me that those guys didn’t have to. They could have said no, that they just did for me.”
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