Nia Jax and Lash Legend are recently crowned champions as they defeated RHIYO to become the new WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions. For Legend, this is her first taste of gold since she joined WWE in 2021. Jax has been a tag team champion two-times previously with Shayna Baszler.
While speaking with Beyond the Bell podcast, Jax talked about her emotional reaction to not only winning the titles with Legend, but seeing Legend get the biggest win in her career so far.
“It’s so funny because we’re the badasses, we’re the heels, we’re the jerks. Were supposed to stay stoic but like, I got super emotional watching Lash win the tag titles and her first ever title in the WWE. I started to get emotional and I’m like, hold it together, keep it together, you’re supposed to be a badass. It was such a beautiful moment and to see the look on her face hearing the 1-2-3 and then bringing us the title, it was such a beautiful moment. I’m never gonna forget that.” (Fightful/Transcript)
Jax also discussed her prior tag team title reigns and says she has apologized to Baszler for not giving it her all at that time of her career.
“It’s funny because you met me in Nashville and that’s when I wasn’t with the company. That weekend was when I found out that I was my heaviest, I was large but not healthy. That was when I had to sit and re-evaluate. I had to go back and watch my wrestling and watch what I used to do. It was funny cause I sat with Shayna, Shayna is one of my closest friends outside of work as well. I just remember looking at her when I watched myself back and saying, ‘I’m so sorry that I didn’t give you the best that I could have given you just because I wasn’t my healthiest.’ I saw that I moved slower, I wasn’t crisp enough, I wasn’t there. I think it helped me on my return because now I feel as though I have a little bit more of an edge because I am a little bit quicker, I’m a little bit lighter on my feet. I can definitely perform a little bit better than I used to. It was that time off that I didn’t realize I really needed to re-evaluate myself and thankfully have the opportunity to come back better.” (Fightful/Transcript)