AEW Star Red Velvet Explains How She Got Her Ring Name

AEW star Red Velvet, who has a pretty big week ahead with the next episode of Dynamite, has revealed how she came up with her ring name.

This Wednesday, Red Velvet teams with Cody Rhodes against Shaquille O’Neal and Jade Cargill in quite possibly the most bizarre match in AEW history.

Speaking on the latest AEW Unrestricted, she explained how she got her ring name, saying:

“In college, I had my first life changing relationship. It put my life upside down and changed my life. It changed me as a person forever, so I went through this stage where I dyed my hair super red. I said ‘I’m getting rid of everything in the past. I’m a new person’. I had this red hair and my friends would say that was my alter ego. They were like, when Velvet switched modes, she’s like Red Violet.

“A show came up asking for wrestlers and anyone can do it. I had to cut a promo. I went to my friend’s house and I was like, ‘Okay, I’m going to cut a promo. I’m going to be a wrestler’. He said, ‘What is your wrestling name?’, and he was a huge wrestling fan. I said, ‘Red Violet’. He said, ‘Ew, that’s not good’. I said, ‘I have nothing. That’s like my alter ego’. He said, ‘You’re small, petite, spicy, you’re very elegant in the way you do things. Your hair is super red. Your skin is beautiful chocolate. You remind me of a red velvet cake’.

“I said, ‘Okay, let’s wing it. Let’s use it’. In the beginning, it was more of a comparison of what he said I was. I started putting some thought into it and as a person and my alter ego, how am I? It kind of all flowed. My sassiness and my sweetness because I am a really sweet person, but when you piss me off, I’ll give you cavities. Then the velvet, because I used to dance, so just like the way I started to move in the ring was very fluid and very elegant. Then it started taking off.

“My trainer was making jokes about it and asked ‘Where are you going to come from?’. I’m like, ‘I don’t know, Florida, where I’m from.’ He’s like ‘How about straight out of your momma’s kitchen?’, because that’s when Straight Outta Compton, the movie, came out and everybody was saying, ‘Straight outta this and straight outta that’. He said, ‘How about straight outta your momma’s kitchen?’. I liked it and it took off and then now that is my whole persona, the kitchen, like, the oven is on. I’m going to stir it up.”

The match was originally going to have Cody’s wife Brandi Rhodes instead of Red Velvet but she had to be pulled due to being pregnant.

It also seemed that the match was initially supposed to be at Revolution but AEW changed the date and now it clashes with the NBA All-Star game, so Shaq will be busy with that.

Quote via WrestlingNews.co

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