Tommy Dreamer has expressed his admiration for Roxanne Perez, the current WWE NXT Women’s Champion, likening her to “the next Mickie James.”
Perez is scheduled to defend her title against TNA Knockouts Champion Jordynne Grace at NXT Battleground 2024.
On a recent edition of the “Busted Open Radio” podcast, Dreamer reminisced about first encountering Perez in TNA in 2022 and recognizing her potential as a future star. He said,
“I just saw this amazing performer who was so young and so already TV ready. Then all of a sudden, she shows up in NXT [a few months later]. I couldn’t be happier for her. And I compared her to, she’s the next Mickie James…She has that personality, and this heel run that I see her having, I never saw that. Which is like when Bully [Ray] says like sometimes do the unexpected, and it works.”
As the ROH Women’s Champion, Perez appeared in TNA and faced Deonna Purrazzo. Shortly thereafter, she signed with WWE and made her NXT debut in April of that year.
