One of the top stars in WWE is the Prodigy Roxanne Perez. She has won many championships in the Stamford-based promotion. One of the main things that helped her grab her titles was her finishing move, the Pop Rox.
Recently, while speaking to Chris Van Vliet on his Insight podcast, Perez shared the story of how Pop Rox became her finishing move.
“So it was actually a name that Shawn Michaels and Matt Bloom came up with, with me… The very first match that I had, I think I was doing a Level Up match against Sloane Jacobs, and they were like, ‘Okay, we need a finish for you.’ So at first I did the code red, and then I transitioned into doing the old education, you land like a sit out. So I was like, ‘Oh, what about this?’ And I tried it, and they were like, ‘Well, you can’t do that to everybody. So no, we don’t like that.’ I’m like, ‘Okay, yeah, that’s true. I can’t pick up like Nia Jax or Jade Cargill, so that’s out of the picture,'” Perez said.
She continued, “And then I said, ‘Oh, I used to do the code red on the Indies.’ And they were like, ‘Yep, that’s perfect. You use that. Do you have a name for it?’ I was like, ‘No, I don’t. Code Rox?’ They were like, ‘No.’ So we’re sitting there trying to come up with names, and Shawn says ‘Pop Rocks,’ and we were all laughing, we thought he was joking. And then we were like, ‘Wait, that’s actually kind of cool.’ I was a babyface at the time, so it was like, ‘Yeah, that works.'”
Roxanne Perez responds to the fact that Zelina Vega uses the same finisher
The Prodigy is not the only one who uses the Pop Rox as a finisher. The former WWE Women’s United States Champion Zelina Vega also uses the finisher. But Vega calls it by its original name, Code Red. Currently, Roxanne Perez is on Monday Night Raw. The former WWE Women’s United States Champion is on SmackDown. So there is no issue with both of them using the finishing move. While speaking with Chris Van Vliet on the same podcast, she shared how they would go about this if both wrestlers were booked on the same show.
“So, I mean, we’ve kind of talked about it, and it’s kind of okay. Let’s say if I’m on SmackDown, I won’t use it if she’s gonna use it. If she’s on Raw, she probably won’t use it if I’m gonna use it,” Roxanne Perez said.
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