Ruby Soho recalls meeting two musical icons while backstage in WWE.
Outside of the professional wrestling business, Ruby Soho shares a special connection with the music world as well. During a recent interview with Alicia Atout, Soho revealed some of the rare occasions that saw these two worlds blended together. One of these crossovers occurred backstage at WWE SmackDown in February 2018, where Soho received the opportunity to meet one of her favorite musicians, Misfits founder Glenn Danzig.
“I don’t [fangirl] with wrestlers anymore because I’ve been doing this for so long. I don’t get weird, except for sometimes like when Edge got here. I’ve known him from before. I get real weird and nervous because he’s so cool, but for the most part, I don’t get giddy and weird, other than with certain musicians. Danzig was definitely one of them,” Soho said. “One day, somebody came up to me, and Sarah [Logan] from catering, and was like ‘Hey guys, Danzig wants to meet you.’ We thought somebody was ribbing us, we thought somebody was playing a prank because there’s no way. We get into catering, and we see him, he’s like, ‘You guys are scumbags, man. It’s so cool to see women doing punk rock stuff and wrestling.'”
“We’re like ‘Oh my God. We’re scumbags. This is nuts.’ You say I am the biggest anything, I’m a scumbag, hell yeah. So I got to meet him that day, and then I went to one of the reunion concerts in Chicago. Jerry Only serenaded me, which was great. Then I saw Danzig again, and it was shortly after [The Riott Squad] had broken up and he was really mad about it. He was like, ‘They broke you up? This is bulls***.’ I was like ‘Tell them about it. Go let them know, they’ll listen to you before they listen to me.'”
Meeting Joan Jett
Soho later opened up about the emotions surrounding her interaction with another music icon — Joan Jett. This particular meeting was put together by Soho’s WWE colleague Ronda Rousey, whose theme song was recorded by the rock singer.
“I didn’t think I’d ever be a person that would cry when they met somebody, [but] it was Joan Jett. Ronda [Rousey] had orchestrated that I could meet her. It was the day that she performed [‘Bad Reputation], and I met her. Obviously, I had to cover up my tattoo of her face, so there’s that. I didn’t want to be that person [that mentioned it].”
“I didn’t say a lot,” Soho continued. “She was very very nice and sent me with a bag of merch, which was great. I didn’t want to be that person, but I had such a huge respect for her being the first woman to open up her own label. Nobody would sign her, so she just signed herself. That’s the most legendary bad b*tch thing that you could ever do in your life. She is just incredible to me, and for what she’s done with women in the music industry, it’s unreal. I have the most monumental respect for her and so when I met her, I just got real giddy. ‘It’s so nice to meet you. This is crazy.’ I waited to collapse until we left. I left and just started bawling.”
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