At ROH’s Free Enterprise show, Session Moth Martina finally made her debut within the promotion and defeated the inaugural Women of Honor World Champion Sumie Sakai.
It’s been a long journey for the Ireland native, who was tapped to sign with NXT UK at one point in her career. However, Martina surprisingly turned down the WWE offer to join ROH and Martina explains why she turned down the opportunity to go to the WWE (Transcript courtesy of
Post Wrestling):
“The NXT UK tryout was really fun. It was the first-ever all-female tryout. So yeah, that was great, and I really enjoyed the experience, I felt like it went really well. Yeah, it was quite great getting to train [at] the U.K. P.C. and I got asked to stay on and do an extra week of training just to see the current signees and stuff, and a lot of my friends work there so I felt very comfortable straight away.”
“I just felt like, at that time I guess, it just wasn’t the right direction for me. I mean, it would’ve been a great opportunity to start something new, but I felt like just for me right now, [I] just didn’t really want to give up the amount of travel that I get to do at the moment and I have a lot of freedom as it is right now. I’ve been to Australia this year, America, Japan. I’m just not really ready to [give that up]. I’ve put a lot into my character over the last five years and I just felt like Ring of Honor was a better fit for my character and what I wanted to do with my character, and I just felt like it was gonna be a bit safer here. It just felt like a better fit.”
Check out the full interview where Martina talks about Becky Lynch reaching out to her and Bushiroad acquiring STARDOM.