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#1 Never watched WWE: Xia Li
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Xia Li made her WWE debut in the inaugural Mae Young Classic tournament in 2017 and she has since gone on to feature regularly in NXT.
Speaking in a 2018 interview with ESPN, NXT founder Triple H revealed the extraordinary story behind Li’s journey to WWE.
“Two years ago in China when I first met Xia Li, she didn’t know what WWE was. We had to explain to her what WWE was because we were there looking for athletes and she had never seen it.”
Triple H explained that Li grew up in farmlands in China and she was unaware that WWE and the world of sports entertainment even existed. When he showed her what it was, she replied, “Oh yeah, definitely.”
From there, he said she fell in love with WWE and instantly got the bug to perform, so the company decided to invite her back and offer her a contract as a Performance Center recruit.
The video above shows Li’s emotional return to China at a WWE live event in Shanghai, where she teamed with Carmella to defeat Sonya Deville and Mandy Rose in a tag team match.
