Posted By James Walsh on 10/22/16


In an interview with The Miami Herald, Ember Moon spoke about her attempts to get into WWE and working in Booker T’s school. Here are highlights:

On working in Booker T’s school: “Booker ran his school something similar to what you would see at the [WWE] Performance Center. He has multiple rings. He has a gym. He has a track. Booker T helped me hone-in on the high-flying aspect of who I am. I also feel like Booker T also helped me become organized and encouraged me to branch out and try to become a bigger name on the indies, which is extremely hard in a sense and even harder for women.”

On trying to get into WWE: “When I was 18, I had my very first tryout for WWE. I had another tryout, when I was 19 and another tryout when I was 20. After that didn’t go the way I wanted it to, I decided I was going to make them want me, and that’s exactly what I did. I traveled all around the world and made a name for myself on the Indies. So when I tried out again and they saw all the experience that I had — eight years later seeing me for the fourth time — and they saw all the potential that I had, they saw something special in me.”
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On the Game of Thrones character that inspired her: “I became heavily influenced by Game of Thrones with the book. When the show came along, I was all about that life, too, but there is one character who I loved in the book, and his name was Patchface. He’s a minor character who popped up. He’s the jester, fool character, playmate for Stannis’s daughter [Shireen Baratheon] in the book, but the cool thing about him is that he always speaks in tongues, and he’s very witty and been known to prophesy. That’s one thing that I absolutely love, the whole prophesy thing, being destined for something, because I do believe that everyone has a destiny. As long as you’re willing to rise to that challenge, you can make anything happen.”