I have to take off my jacket for that one.

I'm sweating too.

Oh, my goodness.

Hey, what's going on?

Everybody for first week feast.

I'm Sean Evans and you're watching hot ones.

It's the show with hot questions, even hotter wings.

And today I'm joined by the legit boss herself.

Sasha Banks.

She's the W w e superstar, four time raw women's champion.

And today she bravely steps into the squared circle in an I quit match against the wings of death.

Sasha, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me.

I like the intro.

How are you with hot food?

I love hot food.

I felt like I was born The spicy food.

I've been eating it since I was a little baby.

So I'm ready for this challenge.

Well, delicious way don't wins.

So I've never heard a professional wrestling origin story that I wasn't fascinated by.

And yours is no different as understanding.

One of your major breaks came when you went to a chaotic wrestling tryouts.

Yes.

Where you were the only female up against, as you put it, a bunch of fat Jeff Hardy want Oh, my goodness.

Yes.

When big back on that day.

What do you think set you apart?

A man besides my looks Just being the only girl there.

The moment I found out that there was a little trial, I was 17 at the time.

I worked out like there was no tomorrow and I walked in.

Then I was like, What is this?

I thought was going to people who look like whole Colgan, our Batista.

And it was just his little teenagers dressing Jeff Hardy.

And I was like, I got this in the bag and then I took my first, but when I was like, Oh, good, this is what I love.

But I'm like, Hell, yeah, What's one thing that you don't miss about the independent wrestling scene?

That's a good question.

Scummy promoters.

I don't miss getting paid $25 or getting paid by just getting a slice pizza.

It was legit.

Either you get pizza or a hot dog or you get $25.

That was just like you know it because I know this is very much a lifelong dream for you.

You were e mailing wrestling academies at 12 years old.

What's one thing now that you're one of wrestling's biggest superstars.

One thing that really is everything you dreamed it would be.

And then one thing that's just kind of, uh, harsh reality of the business.

That's wow.

I feel at ease when I'm in that square circle.

The hardest reality is just knowing that it's a lot of politics, a lot of grueling, grueling traveling, which I didn't realize how hard that would be getting on an airplane every single day.

You know, sometimes you're in the middle seat, sometimes in your way back.

Sometimes in your first class, you never know.

I was in Salt Lake City just two days ago in Anaheim last night.

I'm going to India this week.

It's just it's nonstop hot ones in the morning.

Morning just goes like that sometimes.

You ready to move?

I'm ready to move on.

I'm very truly sorry about that.

Don't apologize.

This is a show where you get away with.

So I want to stay on the origin story for just a little bit longer because I think some of our viewers might be surprised to know that your first cousins with Snoop Dog and in addition to performing your WrestleMania entrance music I understand that he helped craft your boss persona.

I didn't have a large in life character, and I was kind of looking around like we don't really have any bad guys.

So let me turn bad because it was a good guy at the time.

And I'm like, you know, it just accepts new boxer cousin.

Just do it.

When I was around him, his bodyguards would always call him.

Hey, boss.

Boss, Boss, Boss, Boss.

And I was like, That's kind of catchy.

That's a good little nicknames.

I was like, Sasha Banks, the boss.

And then it turned to the legit boss and I'm here.

You see these glasses?

And then he's really connected to the W W Hall of Fame member team.

Any time he was like, what the dough to be?

I would call him, And I'm like, Please take me with you.

I love this.

Please, Please, please.

And I remember going with him at 2008 and he was doing rehearsals with the diva's at the time, and he was walking down the ramp and I was following him behind like this.

And I was walking down the rest, meaning rap.

I was 16 at the time and 25 doing at this year.

I'm like dreams really do come true.

And then another m c that seems to loom large for you is Nicki Minaj.

I read that you listen to moment for light on Repeat up until your W W tryout.

That's That's the only song I listened to on my flight to my trial.

And I told myself, I'm gonna go down to this trial and I'm not gonna leave until I got signed.

But a boom here I am.

Lovgren Sauces.

Police does wife.

Another dirty superstar makes me green sauce all the time.

I legit can drink it.

I'm so obsessed when you do a 30 minute long Iron Woman match against Bailey.

What's the immediate aftermath of something like that?

You need to take a four hour nap.

You guys have beers to celebrate?

How does it work?

I did have a glass of wine afterwards, and, um, I did have a large pizza because to prepare for that match, all I did was cardio because I'm like, this is the longest match I've ever had.

And then my eyeliner match was Charlotte.

I think that went 45 minutes and I was just, like, dead because she broke my nose during I was bleeding.

I'm like, Oh, my God.

Can this be over?

It's finally over.

So, um yeah, lots of wine.

I love drinking wine after a match.

It makes me really common.

Relax.

What is the craft service like at W W E.

How did they keep you guys all fed with all the strange diet restrictions?

You know, there is a little salad bar and we have our plain chicken.

When that's right, pretty much have every week on a Monday night raw.

I just stare at the desert and just hope one day that I can have a bite.

Remember the first conversation ever had with Vince McMahon?

After we debuted on Monday night Raw and he bumped into me music your boss on?

I'm the boss to like, uh, this is weird.

It's so where he's so intimidating.

I get so nervous to talk to him.

Bill still walking on eggshells around them, always on the boss, like what the have confidence?

How does that work?

That's what I'm thinking.

Let's kick toe up.

I loved your goings for my crust.

My new favorite thing.

That's what people like watching this don't realize sometimes it's really early in the morning right now, night down the morning.

So I know that you're not originally a New Englander, but I know that you've made Boston your home.

Boston has a reputation for being maybe the best sports city in the country to the wrestling fans stack up.

Absolutely.

I was in Boston when they won the Bruins championship.

The whole just town just came out of these restaurants and just went to the streets.

And to start growling like Let me join, too.

Yeah, it was so crazy.

That's why I love Boston so much.

Any time I go out in Boston and they say from Boston, Massachusetts crowd just you wraps And I remember in my Helen it's all match with Charlotte.

I lost it and they were just dead silent.

They couldn't believe it.

I thought they were gonna start a riot.

I'm like, not spots and fans for you.

That's Boston for you, bro.

Run your fate and we're gonna talk about it later.

If anybody could stab somebody, go to jail.

Other than that, we outta here in the middle with delicious, like a jerk tastes good, doesn't it?

I'm looking at this last one.

I'm like, Oh, God or this one that has a bomb on it.

Yeah, This one has a bomb on him as a bullet on it.

And then this one is just I'm ready for it.

All right, Sasha, we have a recurring segment on our show called.

Explain that, Graham.

We do a deep dive in, I guess Instagram pull interesting pictures that need more context.

Saw bust out the laptop, and then you just tell me the bigger story.

Yeah.

Alright.

Laptop, please.

There we go.

Office stool.

I'm nervous that you're gonna pull up.

All right.

First things 1st 2 legit, boss.

Hey, that's right.

Break.

Ross and the boss.

He was really cool.

I met several rapper DSM at him.

P.

Diddy, Snoop Wall A.

Never lost the policy school wallet.

Name dropped You in that song.

Reminisce.

Yes, and he actually made my own song.

I don't think he's really posted it yet.

Are, like, maybe might be on soundcloud, but it's really freaking cool.

Yeah, he supports a lot of the dirty superstars he loves New Day He loves myself, too, and he's great, is a huge supporter.

He did this show.

He didn't show you how he got through, did he?

Yeah.

Yeah, Awesome.

So I have to be m after time.

Oh, throwback on I roll.

It's not a viral, because it's a weird story.

So this is not a legit match, a paid match.

And they're called Customs.

So it's where fans can put to rest together and pay them to have a custom match.

Really?

Yeah.

So there's girls I can have matches with no shoes on and no socks or in Sing Let's and I never understood what it waas and I got requested to do so many weird matches, and I was like, No, I'm gonna have a regular match So I only really had two matches because everything else was too crazy.

It's crazy that I'm doing across face and I was 18 and now that's what I'm doing on the main roster on raw.

It's like, uh, the bank statement in origin story over.

It really is.

It's like the start, and I never used as a finisher on the independency, and for me, it felt really weird.

Yeah, doesn't he requested to be like, you know, some somebody guy some guy wanted me to pull hair or, like, cost someone like no more wrestler when I have a wrestling match, dude.

And that's why you're gonna pay for bam.

I'm getting were scared.

Scene with me, though.

We're in it together, though.

Yeah.

Good.

Crank in here a little bit.

I'm not gonna have another bite because I gotta move on, but yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Whoa, whoa.

Here it's happened.

That's pretty good.

Yeah.

So wrestling fans are notoriously hard core.

And you've spoken in the past about autograph hawks meeting you at airports are staking out your hotels.

Where is that line?

What separates the superfan from somebody who's just taking things way too far?

And God and the Internet fans loved me for this.

They to me every day and you harass me for it.

But if I meet you down on the street over me at the arena, that's fine.

That's me.

Just a normal day.

I'm also tweeting you.

Hey, come see me at this arena, so I'm letting you know the location.

I'm not tweeting you.

Hey, I'm flying out.

Adult baggage claim six.

How do you know that information?

How do you know what hotel that I'm at like that To me, that's called stalking.

That means you're calling the hotel, figuring out that I'm staying here and you're here at four.

In the morning.

There's a huge just like hotel.

Airport?

No, thank you at the arena.

Bye.

See you down the street.

And I'm like anything else.

It's outside of wrestling that I didn't tweet out.

Hey, I'm gonna be here just random.