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Today the fat and the furious returns with myself bully Ray and my partner Tommy dreamer looking forward to talking for first time to Tiffany Stratton from NXT.

She's got NXT spring break and coming up big triple threat match against Indy Hartwell and Roxanne Perez.

How do you think she's going to do but most importantly how does she think she's going to do she's going to lay it all on the line great conversation with her also.

Mercedes Monet loses the IWGP women's championship has comments about that loss and me and dreamer discuss her comments all that so much more right here as the fat and the furious takes over the busted open podcast.

And we are very happy to welcome in our next guest because I believe this is her first time on busted open LaGrecca is going to be so jealous that he took this week off and he doesn't get to speak with nor gaze upon our guest right now.

Tiffany Stratton Tiffany good morning welcome to busted open I'm bully Ray that is Tommy dreamer.

Hi nice to meet you thank you for having me nice meeting you welcome.

Hi Tiffany tell us so far about your your NXT experience give us the 30,000 foot broad stroke about your past what is it about a year or two that you've been there now.

I've been pretty solid on TV yeah I would say it's been about a year now I've learned a lot I've developed a lot it's been a lot of fun had a lot of ups and I've had a lot of downs but all together like it's been one hack of a journey it is it's so much fun I'm having a blast.

I watch you wrestle and I see athlete and I see someone with so much natural athletic ability can you give us a little bit of your background before entering the WWE.

So before WWE. I grew up a gymnast I was not like a typical artistic bars balance beam gymnast I was a trampoline gymnast so I did a lot of stuff on the trampoline I don't know if you guys have ever seen trampoline in the Olympics but no that's what I did so basically you bounce in the air like 25 24 feet in the air and you perform two routines one routine is to compulsory so it's your easier routine and it's a lot of fun.

It's your routine and it's like you do the basic skills and then you have your optional which is all like the harder skills and stuff so that's my background and then after that I quit I just kind of like lost my love for the sport and I grew out of it eventually you get old and you don't want to be told what to do all the time.

And then I took a cross that did that I got too hard that was very hard I wanted to compete but I realized you had to work very hard and I didn't want to do that.

So then I went to bodybuilding where I dided down and I got super shredded super jacked and I did bodybuilding for I did one show but my prep was like 20 weeks so yeah that's my background and then right after my bodybuilding show like a month later I got signed to WWE so yeah it's my background.

So Tiffany they found you you you were not a fan of pro wrestling no no no they didn't find me I actually I was submitting my stuff I've submitted I submitted probably like three times onto their website and I actually found like a connect his name's Greg Gagnier I don't know if you're familiar with him of course.

The Gagnier family so I'm from Minnesota he lived like 20 minutes for me and my mom's nurse and was somehow gone contact with him through one of her friends at work and he at first he didn't agree it to like call whoever he needed to call to give me a try out he's like no I want to see how you are in the ring so we called up Mr. Kennedy Ken Anderson I'm not sure.

You're familiar but he has a ring up in St. Louis Park Minnesota and I drove there and I took my first bump and he said okay I see something in you so he coached me for a little bit and eventually he called whoever he needed to call to get me a trial and there definitely has a 10 at first but then they saw like my little resume and they gave me a trial and then signed me a couple weeks later off your my trial.

Did you ever did you ever find out why they were hesitant I mean because you kind of check a lot of the boxes for what they're looking for in a sports entertainer these days it doesn't sound like you.

You spent a lot of time at Ken Anderson School enough just to kind of learn the basics and the WWE likes to get you in the system as soon as possible these days if they see potential in you so what was the hesitation on their part giving that given that you had so much athletic ability.

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