Former WWE Divas Champion Kaitlyn, actual identify Celeste Bonin, skilled an unbelievably quick rise via the corporate’s developmental system in comparison with the timeframe right this moment’s upstarts are used to. Within the early days of “NXT,” when it functioned extra as a contest present, Bonin acquired the decision for season three after simply two months of coaching. Bonin edged out Naomi to win the season.
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On “The A2theK Wrestling Present,” Bonin described her “spectrum of feelings” upon becoming a member of “NXT.”
“It was weeks that I had been there earlier than I acquired that decision,” Bonin recalled. “And so the primary response that got here out of me was tears. I cried once I acquired the telephone name. It was simply a lot emotion, a lot pleasure. I used to be additionally terrified. I used to be identical to, ‘I am not prepared. I do not know the very first thing about wrestling. I simply acquired right here.’ I by no means wrestled a match, did not also have a pair of wrestling boots. And so it was loads suddenly.”
Regardless of her trepidations, Bonin determined to grab the chance relatively than argue with destiny. She stated up till that time, it was the largest second of her life, and processing its magnitude compelled her to mature rapidly.
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“The entire whole time I used to be in WWE, particularly to start with, was extremely defining for me as an individual,” Bonin stated. “I at all times attribute a lot of who I’m right this moment to that very transformational timeframe.”
Bonin captured her first and solely WWE gold when she received the Divas Championship on “Uncooked”‘s twentieth Anniversary Present. Bonin walked away from WWE a 12 months later, calling her departure a “retirement.” However after working off some ring rust on the indies, she returned to “WWE NXT” for the 2018 Mae Younger Basic. Bonin superior via the primary spherical earlier than dropping to Mia Yim within the second.
