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The WWE NXT diva known as Blue Pants spoke to The Roman Show about her role in the company. She wrestles on the indies as Leva Bates, but in WWE they only call her Blue Pants and likely want her to be known as that. For the most part, they only use her to put over other wrestlers although the crowd does like her a lot.
Earlier this month, there were reports that Blue Pants had a lot of heat on her because of what she was being paid by WWE. Since she’s not under a WWE deal, she can sell her own merchandise and not have to split with the company while others in WWE have to do it that way. She also got to appear at the NXT Takeover Brooklyn special on August 22 when she helped The Vaudevillains win the Tag Team Titles. Perhaps one day she’ll sign a WWE deal, but for now she seems content in her role. The full interview is at this link. Here are some of the highlights:
On her WWE status:
Referring to herself as a free agent, Blue Pants says she comes and goes. She says that she’s the wacky next door neighbour, you really never know when she is going to pop up. She says it gives her a kinda mystic appeal and something like that has never really happened before.
“I am something they never really have happened before, I’m a free agent. I come and go. You really never know when I’m going to pop up that’s the kind of appeal of Blue Pants. She’s the wacky next door neighbor. You really never know when she’s going to show up.”
On her character came about:
She admitted that the Blue Pants character was “kind of an accident” because all she really did was have a match with Carmella wearing blue pants. Since NXT often times doesn’t give names to unknown opponents, but things took off on a different turn from there as the creative team instead of giving her a normal debut had Colin Cassady sing her entrance to the tune of the Price is Right.
“It was kind of an accident, to be honest. They called me in. I was just going to be a girl to wrestle Carmella for her debut. I was standing there wearing the blue pants, while they were going over the promo and they decided, creative decided, well instead of having a normal debut, where she comes out I’m already out. Cass had a match and it didn’t really happen because their opponents turned on each other, so they didn’t even wrestle. They had all this time, and asked us if we wanted to wrestle. I asked Carmella if she wanted to wrestle and that’s how it literally happened.”
On whom she wants to wrestle:
Bates is full of admiration for Paige and says she would love to wrestle her one on one. Comparing their feuds with that of Re-Generation X vs the Knight Dynasty, she says they have faced each other in tag matches, but are yet to do so in singles matches. Also it’s been some time before the ladies faced each other, so Bates is of the view that it would be a really cool match, add to the fact that both of them have black and blue hairdo.
“I wrestled her in tag matches, I haven’t really wrestled her in singles matches, I would love to wrestle Paige one on one. I think that would be a really cool match. It’s been so long since we wrestled each other. Every time we wrestled, it was more like Re-Generation X vs the Knight Dynasty, so we never really had a one-on-one, so I think that would be really cool, plus we both have black and blue hair, so it’ll be kind of a cool pairing up.”
