Sonya Deville – ‘I’d Rather Be Underrated Than Overrated’
While Sonya Deville hasn’t won a championship in WWE just yet, she plans on doing so before her career comes to an end.
During a recent appearance on Maria Menounos’ “Heal Squad” podcast, the former SmackDown General Manager opined on not winning a title in WWE yet, the similarities between her and The Miz’s characters and careers, and more.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On not winning a title yet: “As much as I want a championship, and that’s something that I will do before I am done here, I take pride in the fact that I stay booked and busy and relevant and trending without a championship, which I think there’s something to say about that, too.”
On the similarities between her character and The Miz’s: “Me and Mike [The Miz] talk a lot about the similarities in our characters and our careers. If you have a character that’s strong enough to stand on its own two feet without even, my character doesn’t even win, but she doesn’t need to because she can talk her way around it or talk her way out of it. So I take pride in that as a performer. Of course you want it. It’s gonna come. The way I look at it right now, I’m like, look at me without all of that for eight years. Imagine if you did put it on me. That’s how I look at it. The sky’s the limit, and I know that I’m capable.”
On being underrated: “I’ve always said I’d rather be underrated than overrated, and I say that only because the fire that’s lit under my ass knowing that people may still doubt me or haven’t seen my full potential is what makes me…I’ve just chipped away. I’d rather be the little engine that could. In MMA, they used to call me the comeback kid because I would always have a little bit of a slow start in tournaments and in fights, and then I would prevail in the end, someway, somehow. I think that translates to my life in general, I might be a slow start, I take be a longer path or a different path, but I think in the end, I’ll always prevail, and that’s the confidence I have with my life and in the universe.”
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