She states that she operates with a positive mindset now.
It has been just over a year since Chelsea Green made her return to WWE in the 2023 women’s Royal Rumble. Green is in the midst of her second go-round with the company.
From 2018-2021, she was with WWE and started out on NXT and eventually made appearances on Raw and SmackDown. Looking back at her time in NXT, Green told the Lightweights Podcast that she was ‘really negative’ at that point in her career. She added that if she had the positive mindset she has now, she could have turned nothing into something.
No (I have not always been this positive). No, definitely not… I was really negative in NXT when I first got hired by WWE. I really felt like I was given absolutely nothing. But if I had to have this mentality, maybe nothing would have turned into something. So I think it was really eye-opening when I was released, and I did go back onto the indies and I did make a lot out of nothing. The ball started rolling and then I realized, gosh, you could get so much more out of being positive.
100 percent, 100 percent (I could have tried to change my situations to get further in NXT). I mean, I really wasn’t given that many opportunities to thrive. But still, the opportunities I was given, I could have made something out of them. I don’t know how right now, but I absolutely could have knowing what I know now on the main roster of WWE and the three minutes that I get in the ring, you know, that’s been blown up to now, ‘She’s the best rehire by Triple H.’ I only wrestle for two-to-three minutes. It’s just what I do on my days off that make people think that. It’s what I do with those three minutes.
Several years before being signed, Green participated on season six of WWE Tough Enough and finished in fourth place amongst the women. She dove into what it was like seeing her castmates go on to get signed.
I did terribly (on WWE Tough Enough). Yeah (I came in fourth place), but fourth out of the girls… and everyone got hired except me… No! (I don’t get why I wasn’t hired then). Not at all! I was the only wrestler. I was the only person in Tough Enough that wanted that so badly that she went onto the indies and she worked and then went to Tough Enough so no, I do not understand. However, I am thankful, okay? In hindsight, I am thankful. But, I mean, it was awful and I’ll never forget — and I actually just told… I’ve told Sonya (Deville) this and I just told Mandy (Rose) I think this, but, I will never forget, I was sitting in bed, Matt (Cardona) was at Raw and he called me from Raw and he was like, ‘I have some news for you and I don’t think you’re gonna be happy’ and I’m like, ‘What?’ He was like, ‘I just want you to know that Mandy and Sonya are debuting tonight’ and I was like, ‘Ahh!!’ Because I was so happy for them and I always supported them. I thought that they deserved to be there, I love them, everything. But like, seeing the people who are literally in the same spot as you having a rocket strapped to the moon and you’re still on earth. Like, hello? Down here. What the hell? You know what I mean? And I had to watch on TV, my friends go and do my dream job. That was hard and I had to watch that over and over again with people from Tough Enough. Over and over and over again. Hit different milestones that I was not hitting.
Since returning to WWE, Green captured the WWE Women’s Tag Team Titles. She had a five-month reign that was ended when her and Piper Niven were defeated by Kayden Carter and Katana Chance.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit the Lightweights Podcast with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcriptions.
