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Wwe Summerslam It will be a two -day event for the first time in its history when the Premium Live event took place at Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, later this summer.
For Zelina Vega, it will be a kind of house.
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Zelina Vega poses during “Smackdown” at the Wells Fargo Arena on May 2, 2025 in des Moines, Iowa. (Cooper Neill /WWE via Getty Images)
The current women’s champion of the United States grew up two rivers in the east in Queens in New York, but her legs were given to her as a wrestler in her Garden statespecifically in Union City.
“I trained Vega at ACE Arena in Jersey,” Vega shared in a recent interview with Fox News Digital. “Me and Aj Lee actually trained together in Jersey, and that also somehow helped me prepare for the role, if I would be honest, in ‘struggling with my family’ that I play it. He only met it and applied it now and saw it where everything fell.
“But yes, I spent a lot of time in New Jersey training and that is exactly this whole feeling of New York/New Jersey, it was where I was constantly when I was coming.”
Vega won the women’s championship in the United States in the match against Chelsea Green after Wrestlemania 41. The title was added to the menu as another opportunity for a loaded female list on “Smackdown”. The “RAW” list has a women’s intercontinental championship.
Vega told Fox News Digital earlier to hoped to be wwe Add the Midcard title To the fold and now holds the belt – the first single career championship in the company.
Zelina Vega fights in women’s money in a bank game during money at a bank at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, July 18, 2021. (Joe Camporeale-Ussa Sports today)
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“I feel amazing … When I grew up, I just wanted to be a part of it,” she said. “And of course, I wanted to be a champion. I did this huge thing in my head when I was a kid, I said,” I’ll be a champion, this will happen for me. “I didn’t see Plan B in my mind.
“Now, it’s not just like you have succeeded, not only are you a champion, but you are also part of history. First ever the Queen of Ring, as I never thought it would happen. So it still shocked me, but also that eight -year -old body that was like I was trying to sort all this in my mind. I didn’t see Plan B, I was so claim.
VEGA, however convinced she would enter Summerslam as a champion, also had advice for young girls who watched her.
“Simply, never give up on you because you will have so much nose, you will have so many people who give you the reasons why you should not be a champion, why shouldn’t you do it where you want to be,” explained Fox News Digital. “But until you give up on you, no one will stop you.
“You don’t take” no “for an answer and don’t give up on yourself. If I can and can stand here as a champion, it should be proven in the thoughts of many people that your own determination is what will bring you where you need to be.”
Queen Zelina Vega smiled during a women’s elimination match with five to five during the WWE Survivor series in the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, November 21, 2021. (Joe Camporeale-Ussa Sports today)
Fans interested in participating in Summerslam can get their tickets at TicketMaster. The event will be held on August 2 and August 3.
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“It’s our first two night Summerslam, which is crazy because it’s usually only Wrestlemania,” she said. “There’s a lot of buzzing about it. The whole week will really be amazing because it’s where I grew up. So it’s kind of cool to feel like it is home, whether it’s” raw “,” smackdown “and then a two -day summersla. It will be really fun.”
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