She feels it was a more individualistic setting in the past.
It has been 10 months since Nia Jax returned to WWE television on a full-time basis. Present day, she’s on the SmackDown roster and is gearing up to challenge Bayley for the WWE Women’s Championship at SummerSlam.
To promote an upcoming episode of SmackDown, Jax joined the Battleground Podcast. She dove into the shift in WWE’s locker room culture and compared the current environment to the one that existed during her first go-round with WWE.
Jax feels that previously, there more of an individualistic approach to things whereas now, there’s a togetherness about the locker room.
So, the locker room culture, it’s constantly changing but I do find as though we have more of a support system for each other. I come from a team background. I’ve played sports my whole life and it’s always been like you’re only strong as your weakest link and I find as though, like previously, everybody took it more of a me, me, me sort of thing where it’s like, ‘I need to do this’ and now we’re like, ‘Well, we all need to come together to support so and so’ and, ‘We all need to come together’ so I think it’s more of a team, a group effort in the locker room I feel. I also feel a lot of the creative and our producers are more just like, ‘Hey, this is what we’re doing but make sure you realize, go have fun. Go enjoy what you’re doing.’ It’s not like to where it’s like, oh my gosh, I did this. I’m gonna have so many repercussions when I get backstage. It’s more of just, try something. If it doesn’t work out, figure it out. We’ll figure it out later. It’s a different kind of culture, a different kind of atmosphere… I feel as though there’s just more support and encouragement.
SmackDown is emanating from the CHI Health Center in Omaha, Nebraska. There will be a double taping of the program because next week, WWE has a string of shows in Japan.
If the quote in this article is used, please credit the Battleground Podcast with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcription.
