Janai Kai knows that whenever opportunity knocks, you need to take advantage of it.
Independent wrestling star Janai Kai recently spoke with POST Wrestling’s Andrew Thompson and mentioned that she’d like to get the opportunity to work with AEW once again and properly showcase her talents to a broader audience. Kai made her AEW debut on the December 3 episode of Rampage and would like a chance to show her skills on a big level once again.
“Yeah [the AEW Rampage spot gave me more exposure] and this is actually another thing I learned from Santana [Garrett] is that when you know you’re not gonna get a lot of time, make the most of it and so, the way that I handled myself and did everything in the ring for that little time, that was all Santana in my head telling me, ‘Okay, make sure you pose well. Make sure you circle the ring how you usually circle the ring. At least circle your style in one way and that will get some sort of attention.’
“So that’s what I did and it honestly worked because if I had not did the pose or circled the ring like how I usually [do] then I just would have been another random person to be honest, because when I go on Twitter, everyone was saying how cool I was. I was like, ‘I have like three seconds in the ring’ but they were just talking about everything else detail-wise. I was like, ‘Okay. So this is what Santana meant and this is how it actually does work out’ so, yeah. I think with that overall experience, you know, it is what it is but I’m so thankful that I knew how to handle it.”
Kai, a DC-native, noted that AEW would be returning to the D.C. area and thinks that’s a perfect spot for her to make her return.
“I really hope now [that] I do come back [to AEW] and really showcase what I’m all about because that was just of course like nothing man. That was nothing. So yeah, I really hope I do come back. I know there’s people that did express that too that wanna see more and yeah, it should be like — it should be super crazy to come back because I know they’re coming to D.C. soon so I hope that I’m part of that. So if you come to D.C. man, let me tell you, it’s gonna be on, it’s gonna be on.”
Kai’s scheduled to face Liza Hall at the debut show for Jonathan’s Gresham and Baron Black’s new promotion Terminus on January 16.
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