A year ago you were down in NXT working with (Wesley) Blake and (Buddy) Murphy, and now you’re making your WrestleMania debut as the SmackDown Women’s Champion. What’s going through your mind as you head into the biggest moment of your career?

I’m so excited for WrestleMania. It’s definitely the epitome of everybody’s career. Everyone comes to WWE with the hopes of having a WrestleMania moment and the fact that my first year on SmackDown, I’m going into WrestleMania (33) as the SmackDown women’s champion is an amazing, amazing thing. I can’t even express how excited I am. 

Since you’re facing the entire SmackDown women’s roster, who is the biggest threat to your title?

To be honest, I think all of the girls are a threat. I don’t know if you’ve really seen how amazing our division is, but our division has the highest caliber of women and athletes and you know, it’s definitely anybody’s ballgame at WrestleMania. I’m worried for all of it, because we don’t really have a weak link. We don’t have anybody that’s not at that caliber, so I definitely have my work cut out for me.

Do you think that’s also a reason why the SmackDown women’s roster is better than that of RAW’s?

Well I think that both of our divisions – SmackDown & RAW – are amazing in their own way. I think that the fact that all of our girls are featured every week on SmackDown really helps show how dominant our division is and RAW’s division is amazing too, but there’s something about the SmackDown division that you see how great every woman on the roster is. They make sure they highlight that every week on SmackDown, and it just shows that all of our girls are well-rounded athletes, and they all have basically what it takes to be champion.