At NXT No Mercy last month, Tiffany Stratton faced Becky Lynch in a brutal Extreme Rules match, ultimately coming up short against the NXT Women's Champion.
One of the most memorable moments in the match came when Lynch emptied a bag of Barbie dolls in the ring and slammed Stratton onto them.
Speaking exclusively to Digital Spy, Stratton — who had a Barbie-themed entrance for the match — revealed that the spot was actually Lynch's idea.
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"That was definitely Becky's idea," Stratton said. "Becky has amazing ideas, but she thought it would be so cool and so wacky to just have that visual.
"Everyone thinks [the bag] would have like thumbtacks or something like that, and then [she] pours it out and it's Barbies and Barbie heads and we squash the Barbies and stuff. So that was definitely her idea."
Stratton has been using Barbie imagery since before she came to WWE, back when she was a bodybuilder.
"I was a bodybuilder, and I got on this Snapchat reel and they did a compilation of me working out and me posing and stuff like that, and they called me 'the buff Barbie'," Stratton explained.
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"I thought it was kind of cute and was like a good parallel between being this cool girl that works out but is also into glam and hair and makeup, so I kind of wanted to stick with that when I came to WWE."
However, fans may be shocked to learn that Stratton hasn't seen the Barbie movie yet.
"I just been so busy and I'm not really much of a movie person," she said. "It's kind of hard for me to just sit down and watch one thing."
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