Former WWE NXT UK Superstar Xia Brookside recently appeared on “Busted Open Radio” to discuss her wrestling career. For those unaware, Brookside is the daughter of British wrestling legend Robbie Brookside.
During the podcast, Brookside revealed that she “secretly” trained with Darren Walsh after her father went to the Performance Center in Orlando, FL to become a coach for WWE. Later, she found out that Walsh ratted her out by contacting her dad to make sure he was okay with it.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On her father refusing to train her: “He never trained me. He did everything to keep me out of [wrestling]… When he left [for the WWE Performance Center], I felt like there was something missing in my life. And then I was like ‘Wait, no, this is actually what I want to do.’ And then that’s when I realized I loved wrestling – when it was taken away.”
On secretly training with Darren Walsh at 15: “I actually went to this trainer behind his back. I was like ‘Hey, Uncle Darren, my dad said I could start training with you.’ He didn’t. So I kind of like snuck in. But I found out like a year ago that Darren actually did call my dad, and they ran it past each other. He just wanted me to be trained properly.”
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