Interview w/ WWE Women's Intercontinental Champion Sol Ruca

About this episode

Sol Ruca discusses her journey to becoming a WWE Superstar and her recent championship win.

Fresh off of winning the WWE Intercontinental Women's Championship from Becky Lynch at "Clash in Italy", Sol Ruca joins O'Shea and T.J. on No-Contest Wrestling! Sol shares how she went from gymnastics - she competed at the University of Oregon - and doing activities like surfing and cliff diving ("I love heights") to becoming a WWE Superstar. She discusses what she learned at NXT and gets emotional describing her Ladder Match win at last years "Stand & Deliver" PLE when she became the NXT Women's North American Champion. Sol also reveals the move she hates taking the most, her favorite Disney songs, her WrestleMania Dream Matches and more! O'Shea and T.J. also break down the full "Clash in Italy" PLE card and predict the winners of the King and Queen of the Ring tournaments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

People in this episode

Hosts: O'Shea Jackson Jr., TJ Jefferson

Guest: Sol Ruca

Topics covered

• WWE
• women's wrestling
• championships
• athlete journey
• interview

Keywords

• WWE
• Sol Ruca
• Becky Lynch
• NXT
• women's wrestling
• championship
• interview

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: WWE, NXT

Places: University of Oregon

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