Chelsea Green ‘begged’ Undertaker for Lucha Libre AAA spot
To get her spot in Lucha Libre AAA, Chelsea Green reached out to The Undertaker and “begged” him to let her be part of the promotion.
Undertaker has become one of the most important behind-the-scenes figures in AAA since WWE acquired the company. He and Jeremy Borash are involved with booking AAA, and Green contacted both of them asking to be featured. It resulted in Green and Ethan Page both being brought to Mexico and winning the AAA Mixed Tag Team titles.
“When I first got the call to go to AAA, it’s because I begged Undertaker. Like every single show that I’m on, I begged the producers,” Green joked while appearing on Notsam Wrestling. “When I just wrestled Sol Ruca for the United States Women’s title, I messaged Shawn Michaels and Johnny Russo and asked for that match. I didn’t ask for Sol, but I asked for a match. Yeah, I’m out here just begging on my hands and knees, ‘Please, someone let me wrestle.’
“So, I messaged Undertaker. First, I messaged Anthony Luke — who is Maxxine’s husband now — I messaged him. I asked for Undertaker’s number. He wouldn’t give it to me, so he gave me Michelle McCool’s. I messaged Michelle McCool. Michelle McCool gave me Undertaker’s number. Then I messaged Undertaker and JB and I was like, ‘Please, I want to go to Mexico. I want to wrestle. I want to do whatever I can.’ He was like, ‘All right, say less.’ He booked Ethan and I together. I didn’t think that was going to be the way — I just wanted to go. I didn’t care how I went.”
Green said she loves holding the Mixed Tag Team titles because it’s a championship that, at one point, she couldn’t imagine would be part of WWE. She wants to showcase the championship and is sure to bring it to all of her media appearances.
“if I’m in AAA, I want to make sure that the WWE audience watches AAA as well,” Green said. “So I’ve done everything I could in my power to make sure that this title is seen everywhere I go.”
As a WWE main roster wrestler, Green hopes that her presence in AAA helps bring some more exposure to the other talent in the promotion.
“Those girls are real fighters, man. They are no joke. They’re incredibly talented,” Green said about the AAA women’s division. “And I just hope that now that AAA is on Fox [in Mexico] and that I am there hopefully shining a new light on it, maybe those luchadoras and those luchadors will get, you know — they’ll make even more money and they’ll get even more eyes on them and whatever.”
Green had been a double champion before dropping the WWE Women’s United States Championship to Giulia on SmackDown last Friday. She and Page still hold the AAA Mixed Tag Team titles — and Page is the men’s North American Champion in NXT.
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