WWE star Raquel Rodriguez talks Evolution, pro wrestling and more ahead of major event

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The last time WWE Evolution took place, Raquel Rodriguez was still training at the performance center hoping to be able to enter the ring with the superstars of today and tomorrow.

On Sunday, she will get a chance to defend her tag-team championship with Roxanne Perez in one of the toughest matches on the card. The duo will put the titles on the line in a fatal four-way tag match against Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss, Sol Ruca and Zaria, and Kairi Sane and Asuka.

Rodriguez expressed to Fox News Digital what Evolution meant to her the first time she saw the premium live event take place back in 2018.

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Raquel Rodriguez in action with Kairi Sane during Monday Night RAW at BOK Center on June 2, 2025, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Cooper Neil/WWE via Getty Images)

"This is a very exciting time for all the women in WWE, all the women that are just in general invested in wrestling around the world," she said. "We only had one Evolution and I remember that was back in 2018, I was training at the performance center, I was biting my nails because I just wanted to be a part of it so bad. But it was a beautiful representation of women in wrestling, women in sports, and women of culture from just all over the world.

"So, to know that we are able to have a women’s Evolution 2 and have more women from our history and our future coming out to represent, I think it is going to be an absolutely amazing show. I can’t wait to see all the women, little girls, and the abuelitas and tias that are gonna be in the stands cheering us on. I am just very grateful and very excited to be walking in as a WWE Women’s