Kamille Recalls Her WWE Tryout, Reaching Over a Year as NWA Women’s World Champi

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POST Wrestling's Andrew Thompson recently interviewed NWA World Women's Champion Kamille, who discussed her run as champion, trying out for WWE, and more. Below are some highlights sent to us by Andrew Thompson:

Kamille on her NWA title run reaching one year: "It's meant a lot [one-year reign as NWA World Women's Champion]. I feel like I've come into my own this past year, a little over a year and really kind of shown everybody what I'm made of because when I first won the title, I had only had a few matches with the NWA at that point so, ever since then, I've really grown as a performer, as a wrestler, as a talker, just everything so it's been an incredible year."

On wanting EmPowerrr to be an annual event: "So I do think that it would be something nice to do a once a year type of thing, an EmPowerrr event just because it was such a great turnout last year. I performed both nights and I actually enjoyed the crowd on the first night more. I thought they were even more into it. So, it is something I would like to see but, Mickie James, it was basically her event, she was a huge part of it and I know now that she's back in kind of the swing of things and she has a lot going on so I mean, that plays a part in it to it not happening this year... because it was her baby, you know what I mean? So, it's something I would definitely love to see in the future for sure."

On her tryout at the WWE Performance Center: "Luckily, I had no idea about wrestling etiquette, any of the unspoken because I don't have anyone in my family who's in this business. Like it's a completely new venture for me, so I knew nothing about it. So when I moved down to Florida to train at Team 3D, I didn't realize that I wouldn't have time to have a normal job because I had always had a very regular job up until that point. So, one day when I first moved there, I got my resumes together and I was all dressed up, looking nice for interviews and stuff because I'm old school. I like to go in person and drop off my resume and meet whoever is most in charge and while I was doing that, I was like, you know what? I know the Performance Center is down here somewhere and at that point, you could not find the address to the Performance Center so, you know, I'm a female so I'm a super sleuth so I somehow figured it out and figured where it was and then I was like, I can just go there, drop off my resume and I thought that I would maybe be able to work in marketing there and then train as a wrestler at the same time, like I had no idea and so I just buzz on the buzzer and I was like, 'Hi. I'm interested in working here and also becoming a wrestler' and they were like, 'Uh... one second' and then they buzzed me in and I just talked to the manager of the building and then yeah, led to me getting a tryout but they did explain to me, they were like, 'But you can't work a regular job and be a wrestler.' They were like, 'That's not how it works.' I didn't know any better."