Professional wrestler Scarlett Bordeaux says she skipped prom to join the indie show and it launched her career

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There is no one way to get into professional wrestling.

Fans have learned over the past few decades that superstars can come from anywhere. The traditional route is to go through a wrestling school and then find out what it takes in independent promotions. A few of the other ways include being discovered through bodybuilding competitions and various other sports that really have nothing to do with wrestling.

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Scarlett Bordeaux attends Netflix’s Los Angeles premiere of WWE “Monday Night RAW” at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California on January 6, 2025. (Chad Salvador/Variety)

For professional wrestler Scarlett Bordeaux, she told Pakinomist Digital in a recent interview that she got involved after falling in love with the sport when she was young.

“I worked in a movie theater for my first job and some of my coworkers were big indie wrestling fans,” she explained. “They would go to AAW every month. I didn’t know what the hell they were talking about when they talked about going to wrestling every month, but one day I was like, let me just come with you. I don’t want to go to prom, so let me go with you instead of going to prom.

“I loved it. I thought it was great. And within a few months of going to these indie shows, I was like, I want to do this. I feel like I could do this. I asked if I could help set up chairs, throw away trash, whatever I could do to be around. I went right up to the promoter of a show, and a few months later it was December if I wanted to have sex with Santa because they wanted me to give me sex I didn’t know what a piledriver was but I said yes and took the piledriver came back to the back and they threw a bucket of snow on me and said welcome to the business.

From there, Bordeaux worked his way through the business. She appeared in several independent promotions and earned a few championships along the way.

Scarlett Bordeaux in the ring for Major League Wrestling. (MLW)

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She and her husband, a professional wrestler known as Killer Kross, came up to WWE in 2019 and had their second stint in 2022. Their contracts expired in 2025, and they both signed with Major League Wrestling (MLW), where they both currently perform.

The road to success is always paved with bumps.

Bordeaux described one of the more serious ones she took during her career.

“There was a wrestler named Keith Walker. This guy, I’d say he was probably 6-foot-5, big guy, big guy. It was a choke slam. And when I tell you like my knees hit my forehead like that’s how hard I was bent in half,” she told Pakinomist Digital. “Everybody thought it was great. They wanted it again the next month.

“The next month I did it. I was like a prick from it. I just felt the buzz through my leg and I just kind of limped briefly and they’re like, you never take it again. It was the absolute worst bump I’ve ever taken.”