Roxanne Perez Reveals Shawn Michaels Helped Name Her “Pop Rocks” Finisher – PWMania

WWE star Roxanne Perez discussed her Pop Rocks finisher with Sports Illustrated, explaining how it became a staple in her wrestling repertoire.

Perez said, “So it’s funny because… so I started training in 2015, and obviously, I shouldn’t have been trying these big moves in my first two weeks of training, but I was. One of the first moves I tried was the Code Red, and I grew up watching Alexa Bliss. So that move to me was… I just thought it fit so perfectly because, she was small and I was small. It’s like you could just do it to anybody, anywhere, anytime. So yeah, I tried that move. I ended up using it my whole entire independent career. When I got to the WWE, I had my first match on NXT and Shawn was asking me what finishing move I had. I gave a couple other ones and then he didn’t really love those. So then I said, well, I have this move. He was like, ‘yep, you’re using that, that’s perfect.’ He’s like, ‘do you have a name for it? We sat there trying to come up with a name and he came up with Pop Rocks. So it stuck ever since then him and Matt Bloom came up with that.”

You can check out Perez’s comments in the video below.

(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)