‘She’s a badass’ – Paige VanZant tipped to conquer AEW world by TNT champion Scorpio Sky
3 min readPAIGE VANZANT has been tipped to be a big achievement in AEW – by current TNT champ Scorpio Sky.
The previous UFC star, 28, is coaching for her wrestling debut just after signing a deal in the ring on March 9.
Paige and her entourage stormed the ring following Scorpio’s victory above Sammy Guevara, with rival Tay Conti checking in on the KO’d Sammy.
Whilst she was inclined on the ground, VanZant took out a pen and applied Conti’s backside as a rest to ink her name into AEW’s ranks.
Scorpio Sky is the recent TNT Champion and manufactured his ring debut way back again in 2002.
The veteran is self-assured that the ex-UFC star turned bare-knuckle fighter has all the competencies vital to succeed in the difficult world of wrestling.
He told Throwing Down podcast: “She’s so new but she’s selecting up on it so speedy.
“I sort of viewed some of the points.. [her] mannerisms, how she pays notice to the group and that kind of matter.
“She was just the natural way undertaking [those things] and I was adamant [she’d succeed].
“I just kept pushing to Dan, I was like, ‘You gotta get her right here. She’s excellent. She can do this’.
“I imagine she’s gonna select up on it truly quickly and from what I heard, she is.”
‘SHE’S AN Extraordinary ATHLETE, A BADASS’
Paige showed off her acrobatic competencies to her 3.1m Instagram followers on Tuesday, carrying out backflips and over-all hunting in fantastic form.
She’s coaching with WWE legend Gangrel at his South Florida health club, where she was a short while ago caught up in an epic rainstorm.
Scorpio Sky continued: “She’s education with Gangrel who’s wonderful.
“But you simply cannot educate individuality, you can not instruct charisma, you simply cannot teach star energy and that’s a little something she previously delivers to the table.
“She’s an outstanding athlete, a badass, you know and I consider she’ll choose up on the wrestling aspect really swiftly.
“It’s gonna be fantastic for AEW to get a different star.”
Paige has two fights remaining on her 2020 4-bout offer with BKFC, but misplaced out in her to start with two bare-knuckle contests.
She lately wowed fans with cheeky belfie pics from a getaway to Miami as she took a perfectly-acquired break from instruction.
And right after hitting back to Dana White around her UFC earnings, she’s taken command of her have finances by launching her possess OnlyFans-design and style account.