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McKenzie Mitchell is exploring a more beautiful way of commentating wrestling.
The former NXT backstage interviewer was released by the WWE late last year, much to the shock of her husband Vic Joseph. However, it did not take her long to bounce back. Mitchell was cast as Scarlett Sublime in the wrestling-meets-theatre production “The Last Match”, alongside a host of other former WWE stars.
She recently spoke with the Bob Culture Podcast about her new Role. McKenzie Mitchell called it “exciting”, and how she is now calling matches “in a beautiful way” in the theatre.
“It’s exciting, truly. I’m putting on a different cap, if you will. With not only commentary, but the theatre world as well. I feel like ‘The Last Match’ is 60% theatre, and 40% professional wrestling. So there’s so many things I’m learning throughout this of the theatre world. We’re all getting to learn together, everyone from different walks of life.”
“So when I got tagged in to be Scarlett Sublime, It’s just such an honor that they would think of me to be this role. it’s kind of fitting for who I am, what I’ve done and my world, and so I’m kind of taking with the commentary role a page out of my husband’s [NXT commentator Vic Joseph] book. I’ve never done play by play. I’ve only done backstage interviewing and being a correspondent. So now I’m getting to embrace who Scarlett Sublime is and learn a little bit of commentary as well. Of calling a match and how it feels, but in a beautiful way with theatre too.”
After doing “The Last Dance”, it looks like McKenzie Mitchell wants to move into commentary. The former NXT star revealed how hard commentary really is, but stated she wanted to work with Vic Joseph and Booker T in NXT in the future.
“A couple of times. I think the role of a commentator gets undermined sometimes, because there is so much going on in their heads. There are so many moving parts. There’s so much happening behind the scenes that I don’t think people even realise if you’re just a viewer, and you’re tuning in to watch the show, or if you’re a fan in the audience.”
“I think there’s so many different things you’re having to pay attention to. It’s such a learning curve with commentating. Obviously with ‘The Last Match’, it’s scripted and we know where we’re going. But there’s gonna be some ad lib in there as well. But I can’t say that Vic and I haven’t talked about it, like ‘Ooh, wouldn’t that be fun’, if it was Vic as the standard play-by-play, and me and Booker on NXT in the future. Can you imagine how cool that would be?”
