WWE star Zelina Vega recalls wrestling in NJ, making history as US champ and touts SummerSlam

WWE's SummerSlam will be a two-night event for the first time ever. Zelina Vega talks to Fox News Digital about the premium live event.

WWE SummerSlam will be a two-night event for the first time in its history when the premium live event takes place at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, later this summer.

For Zelina Vega, it will be a homecoming of sorts.

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Zelina Vega poses during "Smackdown" at Wells Fargo Arena on May 2, 2025 in Des Moines, Iowa. (Cooper Neill /WWE via Getty Images)

The current women’s United States champion grew up two rivers to the east in Queens, New York, but got her legs underneath her as a wrestler in the Garden State, specifically in Union City.

"I was training at the Ace Arena in Jersey for a while," Vega shared with Fox News Digital in a recent interview. "Me and A.J. Lee actually trained together in Jersey and it also kind of helped me prepared for the role, if I’m going to be honest, in ‘Fighting with My Family’ to play her. It was just getting to know her then and applying that now and seeing it where it all kind of went down.

"But yeah, I spent a lot of time in New Jersey training and just that whole New York/New Jersey feel, it was just where I was constantly when I was coming."

Vega won the Women’s United States Championship in a match against Chelsea Green after WrestleMania 41. The title was added to the menu as another opportunity for the loaded women’s roster on "SmackDown." The "Raw" roster has the Women’s Intercontinental Championship.

Vega told Fox News Digital previously that she hoped WWE was going to add a midcard title to the fold, and now she holds the belt – the first singles championship of her career in