Love Wrestling was a part of the 2025 Elimination Chamber media call, featuring WWE Superstars Sami Zayn, Roxanne Perez, Bianca Belair, and DrewMcintyre. We’ve your news and notes from the call!
SAMI ZAYN
Zayn spoke with Sean Ross Sapp to his contract status with WWE: “I’m usually kind of private about that stuff. I don’t think I’m going anywhere. I’ve got a good thing going here and I see it continuing for the foreseeable future.”
Zayn additionally spoke about the current relations between Canada and the United States with Jan Murphy of the Toronto Sun. “Now, I think in a strange way we’re doing a sort of anti-reflection reflection, wherein we just simply don’t touch politics as a company. Nothing about the political climate is reflected in the product anymore and I think in some ways that’s also a reflection of the society we currently live in and the sensitivity to these things […] WWE is meant to be like an escape from all that stuff. (h/t Cultaholic)
ROXANNE PEREZ
Love Wrestling had the opportunity to ask 2-time NXT Women’s Champion, Roxanne Perez, about her thoughts on the recently-introduced WWE ID program.
“I think it’s so awesome,” said Perez. “It’s really, really awesome to see all these athletes come in, these D1 athletes, that have been very successful in whatever sport they’ve worked their whole lives in. But, I also think that it’s really awesome to see all these independent wrestling talent that have put in the work for their specific sport. I think it’s so cool to see all these women: I know Zayda Steel is a part of that program. Kylie Rae! Those are two girls I think are so talented, [and] so awesome. It’s really cool to see all these independent wrestlers get big opportunities now. I think it’s going to be great for the performance center.”
Additionally:
- Perez spoke to Sean Ross Sapp about her sink-or-swim moment in NXT: “My very first match in WWE, I wrestled Jacy Jayne, and we got time cut in that match. It was my debut for NXT and I remember Shawn Michaels telling me, ‘We’re throwing you in the deep end, you can either sink or swim.’ I think I swam and swam pretty well.” (via Fightful)
BIANCA BELAIR
“Oooh! We’re just trying to create moments. I feel like we got together in this tag team, and it was thrown together very quickly. So, it took us a little minute to get going. We’ve been making gear almost every single week, because we’ve been having matches every single week, and we’ve just been trying to piece it together. We were just talking about how it’s crazy how we’ve been able to make this work in such a short amount of time. We haven’t even really had time to go and practice moves together. We’ve just been winging it, and we’ve been doing a great job at it because we’ve been clicking so well.”
“I think that we have the same type of mind creatively. We have a lot of outfits [that are] the same already that we didn’t even know. We’re sending each other pictures of stuff in our closet, and I’m like ‘I have that outfit,’ and she’s like ‘I have that outfit!’ So, it’s been very easy. Our minds, creatively – we’ll say an idea to each other, and I’m like ‘I was just thinking that!’ We’re just trying to do things that are moments and do things that show our personality.”
“As far as for Elimination Chamber? We have a little theme going on. I will say that she picked this theme! I’m trying to come through because I make my own gear, and I hope I can make this: I don’t know if I can. It’s stressing me out right now. I have a piece of it sitting next to me! I will say, if I’m able to do it, it’ll be a moment, and it’ll be nice for [Elimination] Chamber.”
Additionally:
- Belair spoke to Sean Ross Sapp about a potential heel turn: “If that does happen, I want to be the heel that people would not like. I don’t know if I’m ready for that or if everybody else is ready for that. It’s one thing when I hear fans say, ‘I love so and so as a heel.’ When I hear ‘love’ and ‘heel’ in the same sentence, that doesn’t work for me.”
DREW MCINTYRE
Love Wrestling had the opportunity to ask former WWE Champion, Drew McIntyre, on keeping personal issues with talent separate in a match, versus focussing on the professional issue of winning the Elimination Chamber.
“You have to,” the Scottish Warrior stated emphatically. “If you get a few extra digs in there, a few stiff shots, then good. But, you have to focus on the bigger picture. You have to focus on the story that’s being told. As we found with the Punk situation, the deeper the hatred, the better the performance and the happier the fans.”
“I’m not somebody that gets therapy. I have no issues with people that do, if that’s what helps them and helps you work out some of your issues to make you a better person and a happier person. My therapy is on TV, and on social media. You can literally see me working out things in my life on television. Sometimes, it’s through words. Sometimes, it’s through conversations like this. And, sometimes, it’s through just kicking somebody’s ass. That’s my version of therapy. I’ve got my eye on the prize. Bit of a personal issue is there? Cool. I’ll take it out in the ring, and I’ll focus on getting to WrestleMania, getting my moment, and keeping that friggin’ title.”
Additionally:
- Speaking to Sean Ross Sapp, McIntyre explained “No, they go to management and cry,” said McIntyre. “Then, I laugh and say, ‘What are they going to do about it? Tell them to beat me up, but they can’t.’ (via Fightful)
