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WWE Superstar Alexa Bliss has been enjoying what some pundits are calling the best rookie year on the company's main roster since the likes of Kurt Angle, Randy Orton or Brock Lesnar.

Since her call-up less than ten months ago, Bliss has carried the torch for both SmackDown Live and Raw as Champion, and has been one of the stand out performers on either brand.

Irish Daily Mirror got the chance to catch up with Bliss as well as fellow Superstar Titus O'Neil to talk all things WWE ahead of her winning performance at WWE Dublin last night.

Before our interview, the pair got to meet some young members of their fanbase; known as the 'WWE Universe' in their hotel. Bliss, despite her nasty on-screen persona, admits that part of the job is one of her favourites. "I love meeting the kids, the fans," she said.

"It's so awesome when we have our shows to go out and see how different each crowd is. What we do is an escape for people. I used to watch it growing up and I know that experience of it being an escape for me. To be able to portray that for someone else is great. To see a little girl dressed up like me, even if she is like 10 or 11 and taller than me, its amazing!"

The former Division I cheerleader spent 3 years with WWE Developmental territory NXT, never capturing the gold from the seeming death grip of the 'four horsewomen'; Charlotte Flair, Bayley, Sasha Banks and Dubliner Becky Lynch (who also never captured the title).

For almost two years one of Charlotte, Bayley or Sasha held the title before, just weeks ahead of Alexa's main roster call-up, Asuka finally won the belt. Since the 2016 WWE Draft; Alexa Bliss has held three seperate main roster championships, two of which were won in matches with Dublin's own Becky Lynch. "When I was first called up to SmackDown, they were filming us live and everyone stood up and I just broke down and then I had to think 'okay their filming me I have to pull myself together'.

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"I don't know how to explain how different every moment is, but to put it in perspective I'll give the example of when I won the SmackDown Women's Championship. That was the first WWE event my parents ever went to. It was just such an emotional moment. My mom was there through everything in my life, all the bumps and bruises, and to have her there for my first title win was awesome and emotional.

"Then I came to Raw and became the Raw Women's Champion and that was something that I never thought could happen because when I was called up it was all about the four horsewomen... It's really cool to see that the women who are the four horsewomen can really take this revolution to the next level."

In the circles of internet wrestling fans, there is an incredibly black-and-white view of what they refer to as 'babyface' [good guy] or 'heel' [bad guy]. These 'wrestling insider terms', however, don't allow for a huge amount of character development for the performers and their personas. "Our characters are actual people, you know what I mean? You couldn't meet somebody and decide 'they're great' or 'they're the worst'.

"Everybody has dimension, everybody has stories that they want to tell... We all have depth and layers that we try to portray behind our characters. It's definitely shades of grey and in-between."

In a past life, Alexa Bliss was the leader of former NXT Tag Team Champions Blake & Murphy. The pair have struggled to find success in NXT as singles competitors following a break-up a few months ago, and if they were to re-unite on the main, the Raw Women's Champ would love to join them... On one condition. "If the three of us got back together, they'd have to actually start winning.

"That's why I left them in the first place. I was setting up every opportunity for them to win and I would create situations and they just kept losing and losing and losing. But they've had a bit more time in NXT on their own and if they decide to get back together and they want to start winning, I'll start backing them up again."