Lyra Valkyria on her ‘insane first few months’ on WWE main roster, inclusion in WWE 2K24

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Former WWE NXT Women’s Champion Lyra Valkyria was “over the moon” at her inclusion in the new WWE 2K24 video game — the latest career development after what she called an “insane few months” on the main roster.

I recently caught up with Valkyria while she was doing media to promote the new Global Superstars pack for the WWE 2K24 game of which she is part of, along with Jade Cargill, Nia Jax, Michelle McCool, Carlito, Kairi Sane and Dragon Lee.

Our full interview can be viewed below.

Valkyria gushed over seeing herself in her favorite gear while making her entrance in the game.

“When I saw that entrance, I was so, so over the moon. It’s my favorite gear. They’ve got the ‘Whooo’ chants from the crowd. Everything about it is absolutely perfect,” she said.

She didn’t know she was going to be included since she had not been scanned for it like other talent, noting that she learned about it with the rest of the world, saying it “was really cool.”

QUEEN OF THE RING FINALS

After being drafted to Raw earlier this year, the former WWE NXT Women’s Champion was immediately part of the Queen of the Ring tournament, making it all the way to the finals with wins over Dakota Kai, Zoey Stark and IYO SKY, eventually losing to Nia Jax.

“(The tournament) was insane. Being drafted was so unexpected and then my debut was in the Queen of the Ring tournament, I was thrown into the fire and I had to just hit the ground running. I feel like to have made it all the way to the finals within my first month (and then) wrestling in Saudi (Arabia) was absolutely amazing. I didn’t have time to stop and think and breathe. I had to go. What a time…I will never forget it,” she said.

“I had such an insane first few months. Stuff happens so quickly. I have no idea. I can’t even predict what my next year will look like if stuff keeps going the way it has been,” she continued.

DREAM MATCH

Her WWE career has only just begun and she already has experienced career highs like the aforementioned tournament and defeating Becky Lynch for the NXT Women’s title last October. Her future goals include to hold either one of the top WWE women’s singles titles and take part in a dream match of hers.

“Something hit me the other day. I’d love to do something like an Iron Woman match or something like that. I feel that would be the ultimate trust. You think about the Bayley and Sasha Banks incredible one that they had, and I would love something like that. I think that I’d be really, really proud of that in my career if I got to do something like that,” she explained.

The woman she would like to compete against in such a match? IYO SKY.

“Against IYO would be amazing. I don’t know. She’s amazing. I have been watching her since long before I ever even came to WWE. She’s just so experienced and working with her is just amazing,” she said.

You can check out the full interview here: