Netflix’s Wrestlers Star “HollyHood” Haley J Has WWE-Sized Desires

In Netflix’s newest documentary sequence, Wrestlers, viewers are launched to numerous skilled wrestlers plying their commerce on the unbiased scene. Some are snug with the extent of success they’ve achieved performing for native audiences, whereas others dream of taking their subsequent large step.

A type of hoping to make use of the present’s platform to succeed in the subsequent degree is “HollyHood” Haley J, a standout feminine wrestler on the present who is among the major stars of Ohio Valley Wrestling, the unbiased promotion on the middle of the present. Throughout the sequence, she makes it clear that OVW is one step in her journey, whereas she additionally gathers expertise with different teams like Girls of Wrestling.

Now, with the present on the market on the planet, Haley J has a imaginative and prescient for her future that features ending up as a WWE Celebrity.

“WWE has acquired all of the history–it’s acquired all the things,” she informed GameSpot. “It is the most important stage that we will go to. So it’s going to at all times be primary till I get it.”

Whereas Haley is fast to notice she’d additionally like to work for WWE’s major competitor All Elite Wrestling (AEW), she already has a fundamental event-level storyline in thoughts for WWE.

“I wish to go along with Charlotte Aptitude as a result of she’s a second-generation celebrity,” Haley mentioned of the 16-time WWE Girls’s Champion and daughter of Corridor of Famer Ric Aptitude. “And our tales are very comparable however very totally different. For instance, her dad–everyone knew who she was due to her dad. I am type of the alternative. I am [a] second technology [wrestler], however the indies knew my mother. She by no means actually made it large time, so I could not actually use her title [to] get myself on the market as a lot. So I really feel like I did that with out the second-generation blessings that a number of others get. So I simply suppose it might be an incredible story. I might inform that story.”

Curiously, shortly after the debut of Wrestlers on Netflix, it was reported that Haley J was to obtain a WWE tryout. Nonetheless, it was later reported that her tryout was postponed. A brand new tryout date has not been introduced.

Wherever she finally ends up, whether or not it is with WWE or AEW–or even when she stays the reigning Girls’s Champion of Ohio Valley Wrestling–Haley is past content material seeing the remainder of the world meet up with what she already knew.

“I’ve at all times mentioned that I used to be a celebrity and I used to be simply type of ready on individuals to catch as much as that,” she mentioned. “I believed in myself for a very long time. However now that it is really taking place, it is type of loopy as a result of my followers and stuff are going up by the 1000s. And clearly, I wasn’t that large of a celebrity as a result of it wasn’t taking place like that [before]. However my mentality positively hasn’t modified. I nonetheless really feel like I do know my price. And I do know my worth and I really feel good. I really feel prefer it’s my time to shine.”

You’ll be able to watch all the first season of Wrestlers on Netflix now.