Making the tr✱ansition from competitive bodybuilding to professional wrestling was a challenge for Alexa Bliss☂.
On the ღlatest , Bliss revealed that she weighed only 96 pounds when she reported to Orlando for training after signing her d✤evelopmental contract.
"I was just a little, little thing. I was a stick," Bliss said. "I was just bone and a little bit of muscleﷺ. It was terrible. They told me, you can't get in the ring until you gain some weight. … at that time with the way my body reacted to training it was hard to gain weight because I was just burning so many calories at any given point with what my body was training to do."
Bliss explained that her weight was so low because, as a professional body🌊builder and due to her sponsorship commitments, she had to be "show ready" at all times, meaning she had to st💝ay within 3 pounds of her show weight year round.
With zero prior wrestling experience, making the adjust⛄ment to the squared circle was tough.
"I didn't have any training prior to that, wrestling wise. My first day, I remember, I didn't know what to do. … I came in my first day in rhinestone Uggs and a sequin jacket and Bill DeMott looked at me and was like, 'What are you?' "
Before becoming a regular on NXT television, which led to her gettin꧋g drafted to Smackdown last summer as part of the revival of the brand split in WWE, Bliss tr🐬ied a variety of roles in NXT -- including ring announcing.
As she recalled, it did not go well.
"I did ring announcing and I was terrible. It's harder than it looks," she said. "Oh, I was really bad. I kept forgetting names. I could not pronounce Alexander Rusev's name right, for the life of me. I had to stick a sticky note on the back of the block (on the microphone). As the music was playing I would look at it. People caught on to that real quick so I had to quit ring announcing."
The lack of wrestling background has not slowed Bliss, who last month made WWE history by becoജming t🌱he first individual to win both the Raw and Smackdown Women's Titles.
