Jade Cargill on her run as WWE women’s champion: “I wanted to wrestle more, I wanted more competitive matches”

As seen during WWE WrestleMania 42 Sunday, Jade Cargill lost the WWE women’s title to Rhea Ripley. While speaking to SI.com, Jade reflected on her reign as champion…

“I wanted to wrestle more. I wanted more competitive matches. I wanted more grit. I really wanted to sink my teeth into whatever was being thrown at me. That’s all I wanted with my reign, but we didn’t get that as much as I wanted, and that’s fine. But now that I had a practice run, I’m gonna call it a practice run, I’m gonna say next time is gonna be totally different.”

Jade also said the following about her match with Rhea…

“She can’t go out there and have that stellar match if I don’t put on [a show] as well. Rhea has always had amazing dance partners. She’s worked with Charlotte, she’s worked with Becky… It takes two to tango. I wasn’t nervous last year. I had a match with the great Naomi. I thought we had a superb match in itself. It wasn’t a title match, so obviously it’s not gonna have as much buzz around it, but I don’t think that this was any different. I just had a title. And a title doesn’t make me, I make the title.”