Posted on 4/10/126 by Colin Vassallo
Liv Morgan sat down with Chris Van Vliet in Las Vegas,
Nevada to discuss winning the Women’s Royal Rumble after
being in the match every year since it began, the upcoming
WWE Women’s World Championship match against Stephanie
Vaquer, her return from injury at Survivor Series and her
low blow John Cena, why she believes she and Dominik
Mysterio are the greatest couple in WWE history, her
memorable NXT debut and much more!
This is your eighth WrestleMania. How’s that feel?
“Iconic. We’re just going, and we’re just getting better
matches every single year.”
Do you feel the pressure going into this one?
“Not right now, and not in a bad way. I don’t know. I feel
like since I’ve come back from my injury, I’m very much just
trying to stay in the moment and be present. Obviously,
WrestleMania is heavy on my mind, but I’m not feeling any
anxiety or pressure yet. I’m just kind of taking everything
day by day and just preparing as best as I can. So no, I
don’t feel pressure right now in this moment.”
What happened with this injury, and did you immediately know
something was wrong?
“Yeah, I just took a weird fall, tried to brace myself,
which is stupid. As soon as it happened, I knew, just
because you can’t feel anything. But first of all, it’s like
such an intense pain, then it just goes away, and then you
can’t feel anything because your shoulder is just not
connected. So yeah, I knew. I rolled out the ring. I tried
to pop it back in. Medical came and tried to pop it back in,
and it was kind of just like, I can’t continue, I can’t do
anything else. So I had to throw in the towel, which I
hated. I think I tried to be really optimistic until my MRI
news, I was like, I think I’m okay, but I had done the same
thing two years prior. So I knew it wasn’t okay, but I
didn’t really want to speak it into existence.”
What a return at Survivor Series. The look on your face just
sold that moment so perfectly.
“I don’t even know how I did that. My eyes, I was like,
Whoa, dilated. I must have tapped into something right
there. I don’t know. But yeah, it was so iconic, and I
couldn’t have written a better return, and I mean that so
wholeheartedly. I couldn’t, first of all, I would not even
have come up with that myself, that was so much more grand
and special to me than anything I could have thought of
myself. So I was just so happy and honored.”
You were on the receiving end of one of Bianca Belair’s
hardest, loudest hair whips ever. How long did it take for
that to heal up?
“I had a scar for quite a while. Honestly, I haven’t looked
at it in a bit. I still think I have a very bit of a tail
end mark. Also my back too. I have a scar on my back from
some injury I had taken from the Elimination Chamber. So
yeah, it scarred me up pretty well. But honestly, that’s
like one of my favorite matches ever. That was one of my
favorite matches ever, and like the final two with Bianca
and I is one of my favorite moments. I feel like the
audience really didn’t know who was going to take it. I
think just that Chamber specifically in and of itself, with
Jade and Naomi. I just think it was so well done. I think
that was like one of the best Chamber matches, in my
opinion, for the women.”