When NXT commentator Beth Phoenix appeared on oral sessions with Renee Paquette recently, she spoke about her work as a color commentator for WWE’s yellow brand. Phoenix recently tweeted how much fun she was having at the booth and explained the reasons for the tweet. “I mean that statement by saying that I’m very happy to have found the two colleagues I work with really good,” said Phoenix. “It doesn’t take away from anyone I’ve ever worked with. Mauro (Ranallo), Nigel (McGuinness), Tom Phillips, I’ve had great experiences and learned so much from everyone. Including you Renee, we had a lot of fun. I learned so much. And what I know is wrestling. I compare it a lot to wrestling. And I have the feeling that when you start wrestling, you take something from every opponent. Like, ‘Oh, I like the way they did this’. Or ‘I learned a lot in that moment and had to be on my feet.’ So I took so much from working with the best of the best. So now I’m at the point where I know the product so well, which is huge for me. It’s such a quick product for NXT. And I’m a kid of the 80s and 90s, watching slower matches, slower style. When I started I came home to Adam and cried. I thought, ‘Man, I can’t keep up. I’m too old for that. I can not.’ And he said, ‘You just don’t know. And they don’t know you. ‘ And all the feedback was so poisonous too. And like, you know you suck. “I had to block it. I remember sometimes writing to you about it and saying, ‘I can’t do this.’ And if you don’t believe in yourself then you definitely can’t. Sometimes when the whole world doesn’t believe in you, you have to be the one who does to keep going. I think Michael Cole, I give him the credit, said, “What you need was reruns.” If the feedback was “you suck,” I would just say to myself, “Cole says you just need repetitions. Repetitions, repetitions, repetitions. ‘ Every time I went to work I looked at it like spending time in the gym. “Beth, you won’t get a body overnight. You won’t break your bench press overnight. You have to use your reps. ‘ And that’s how I had to see it if I wanted to cry and stop. I believed all the hate! I had to say, ‘You go in there, do your workout, and you’ll break your bench press record.’ And I posted this tweet the other day because I was just having fun at the desk. And I told Vic that and I told Stu that. I enjoyed it and waited for it. I’ve been waiting for the moment when I can sit down and the red light is on and I’m not a deer in the headlights and I’m scared of what I’m about to say. I just had fun because I felt safe with two people getting me up and I have great people on the headset who get me up. We just had fun. ”During the COVID-19 pandemic, Phoenix provided color commentary from home. Part of it was because she lived in a locked state (North Carolina), but several other factors were involved, according to Phoenix. She also described how her comment on the delay was made and praised the announcers she worked with for their work with it. “It was a village of people. It was a village, ”said Phoenix. “So what happened was over the summer, Adam had the biggest wrestling match ever. And my mom has heart disease, she had triple heart bypass, she’s like super high risk. And the news says the world is going to end and we ask, “What’s going on?” So we had discussions, I think they were working and talking to all the talents and wondering who is comfortable with what to do? And in my situation, I was like, ‘I’m stuck guys. Adam is injured, he has just been operated on. My kids don’t go to school, my kids go to distance learning. And I can’t get COVID because my mother lives alone and I’m helping her. ‘ So I thought I was in a situation where I thought, ‘Maybe I have to stop’. I said to them, I said, ‘If you have to replace me, I totally understand, but I’m in stock. I have to take care of my husband. He needs my help, my children need me and my mother needs me. And Michael Cole and Hunter said, ‘We’re going to come up with something.’ You came with technology and technology came with me. And you know me, I can barely use a cell phone. It’s magical that I can click a link to go to Zoom. “And somehow we were able to set up a remote commentary station with an army of WWE masterminds, and they did the same for Mauro. Because of travel restrictions. And North Carolina was sealed off, I couldn’t even get there if I wanted to. And then we gradually did this for the rest of the summer and fall through Christmas. And we were able to have my mother vaccinated during this time before I went back to work. She belonged to the first or second high risk group. We vaccinated her and Adam was healed so he didn’t need my help anymore. And my kids returned to school. So I’ve been able to travel again and at risk all my life because all of my personal ducks have been back to back. I’ve said this to each one individually, but I’m absolutely grateful and loyal to NXT, Hunter, Cole, everyone who made this possible and how hard it was to work with me. Because they had to delay the other commentators. I was about 0.8 seconds to keep up with myself because it was happening over Wi-Fi. So you would be one, two, three in the ring, you know how fast everything moves, one, two, three! You’d have to call it and then see it on the screen half a second later. Repetitions, it was all over. For the guys at the desk they were so good that they worked on a delay to work in sync with me. It was incredible. “Paquette stepped away from the comments and asked Phoenix what she would like to see from women’s wrestling in the future. Phoenix echoed a similar opinion as former WWE star Mickie James.” I feel like something I get from a lot Fans listen, and the chatter among women, I feel like there is room now and the chatter among women, I think there is room now, and we have educated our audiences to see the women “as stars could.” you might do a weekly womens show, “Phoenix said.” And no insult to GLOW or any previous womens shows but it wouldn’t be that much gimmick, it would be wrestling. And I think you could have characters and interactions and personality, but you had to Not quite tricky, flowery nooks and crannies and a cam-cam line at the end. You could have entertainment and wrestling. “We have a need for content, a hunger and thirst for content like never before. We have wrestling every day of the week, between Impact, AEW and us. There’s so much wrestling going on, I think a women’s show would be successful because consumers are asking for it. I don’t know what that looks like, I don’t know which side of the pond would be willing to do something like that, but I think that would open a lot of doors, even for women who don’t work for one of the big TV companies. You could have a place like, ‘Hey, I can come in and have a match with one of our big stars.’ You can introduce some newer faces and get more opportunities. ”If you use any of the quotes in this article, please credit Oral Sessions with Renee Paquette and provide Wrestling Inc. ah / t for transcription
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