Summary

Lizzy Rain said Pretty Deadly helped set her on the path toward wrestling when she was first looking for a place to train.

Speaking with Bully Ray on Busted Open After Dark, Rain looked back on the start of her in-ring career and said hearing Elton Prince and Kit Wilson on NXT UK caught her attention because their accents sounded like home. After reaching out, she said one of them pointed her to a wrestling school about 20 minutes away.

The story lands just after Rain's NXT TV in-ring debut against Nikkita Lyons, a match she won on the April 28 episode.

Quote from Lizzy Rain

"NXT U.K. was a thing and that kind of gave me the hope (that I could get to WWE), but I heard Pretty Deadly speaking, and I heard their accents and I was like, 'Oh! I know that accent. That's my accent. They must wrestle around me. They must have trained around me' so, I messaged one of them and they got back to me and said, 'There's a training school 20 minutes away from ya' and I was like, 'Oh! Okay, maybe this can become a thing.'"

What It Means For Lizzy Rain In NXT

Lizzy Rain connecting Pretty Deadly's advice to her start in wrestling gives a little more texture to her NXT arrival, especially now that she has already turned that opportunity into a televised win over Nikkita Lyons. For NXT viewers, it is an early piece of background that helps frame Rain as a newer name with a direct line from NXT UK inspiration to the current WWE system.

Sources

Lizzy Rain on Busted Open After Dark