Liv Morgan on the Cover of PAPER Magazine

If a highlight is current, Liv Morgan will discover it.

Her profession as a WWE famous person is stuffed with alternatives given and alternatives taken. One second, she charms her manner round a bunch of wrestlers in the ring, and in the subsequent, she smiles and provides a swift kick in the nether area, as John Cena realized in the fall of 2025.

Now she is a co-leader of a WWE heel faction The Judgment Day. Herself, Dominik Mysterio, Raquel Rodriguez, Roxanne Perez and JD McDonagh wreak havoc on a weekly foundation as the crowd erupts in boos each time.

“It’s so fun going to work every week and seeing what shenanigans we’re going to get into,” Morgan tells PAPER. The pint-sized punisher is on her method to WrestleMania 42 in Las Vegas, the place she is going to battle Stephanie Vaquer in a single of the most anticipated matches of the weekend.

Along the manner, Morgan has develop into the good ambassador for the larger-than-life occasion, as there’s not a digital camera lens she’s by no means preferred. More importantly, she’s traveled throughout the nation to let folks know she is preventing for the WWE Women’s World title in the “Show of Shows.” “I’m obsessed with it all, and I want everybody to know that I’m the one that they can call when they need media appearances, or they need to send someone to a carpet,” Morgan says. “I want that responsibility within my role here. I want to be that person for them.”

WWE has began hitting extra eyeballs since shifting its flagship program Monday Night Raw to Netflix. Now, Liv is representing a transformed girls’s division that survived an period of hypersexualization in the late ‘90s, with more opportunities to showcase their athleticism and storytelling than ever before.

When Liv is not chasing championships or slaying photoshoots, she’s supporting her boo, Dominik Mysterio, who is an element of a wrestling dynsasty and the second half of PAPER’s WWE energy couple cowl.

For extra on how Morgan went from wrestling her older brothers in a small city in New Jersey, to gracing LED boards throughout the Las Vegas strip, learn that full cowl story beneath.

How did the photoshoot really feel?

I’ve by no means felt or seemed like that in my complete total life. It felt very fashion-forward, like I used to be doing artwork. I used to be like, “Oh, this is something that the fans have never seen from either Dominic or I.” I used to be very excited to only be concerned and honored to share this cowl with him.

For these assembly you for the first time, who’s Liv Morgan?

Liv Morgan is somebody, for those who mess with me, I’ll spend a yr making your life a residing hell. I’ll come for you while you least anticipate it. But apart from that, I feel Liv is only a passionate girl. She clearly loves Dominik Mysterio. She loves her Judgment Day household. Loves inflicting chaos, loves being messy.

WWE has hit tradition another way and also you’ve seen that transition firsthand. What has it been like?

I feel it is superb. It’s a testomony to our bosses, Triple H and Nick Khan. WWE is now featured on Netflix weekly with Monday Night Raw. Our largest occasions are on ESPN, so simply throughout the board, we’re being highlighted and showcased another way that I feel brings in lots of viewers, lots of followers, possibly lots of those that weren’t watching WWE earlier than, or those that used to observe WWE and now are selecting it up once more. Like, I feel WWE is unquestionably cool once more.

Have you felt that popular culture shift your self?

Absolutely. When I received instructed about PAPER, I used to be like, are you fucking kidding me? They need me? And that is only a testomony, I feel, to all the work that everybody’s doing and the progress that WWE has. I feel it is becoming. We have Jelly Roll eager to be half of our exhibits. We have Bad Bunny eager to be an element of our exhibits. Topanga (Danielle Fishel) comes by means of weekly. We have all these folks in music and leisure and popular culture who need to be an element of the occasions. And so I undoubtedly seen a distinction.

Have you ever been stunned to study a specific superstar was a giant WWE fan?

No, as a result of I really feel like WWE is for everybody. You know what I imply? I really feel like the attain is so broad that you do not know who can be into it. Like, we’re speaking about WWE, this iconic World Wrestling Entertainment firm, that is been round eternally. I’m by no means stunned at who needs to return by means of, or who’s there, or who needs to participate, as a result of it is a film, it is iconic.

What attracted you to WWE and to need to be a wrestler in the first place?

So I grew up with 4 older brothers, and so I used to be very a lot a tomboy rising up. Anything my brothers beloved, I naturally beloved. I spent lots of time hanging out with my brothers, and so they launched me to WWE once I was 5 years outdated. I had by no means seen something like that, ever. I actually beloved watching the girls. There had been these sturdy, highly effective girls who had been wrestling with the boys. They had been sporting saggy pants and sneakers. And that simply actually resonated with me.

That was my dream rising up. It wasn’t to be a ballerina, it wasn’t to be a instructor, it wasn’t to get married; it was to be a WWE famous person. Following by means of on that and altering my life and my household’s life has been the largest blessing. Like, I’m eternally grateful.

That in-ring wrestling between ladies and men has largely disappeared, however you your self nonetheless have an opportunity to work intently with males like Dominik and Finn Balor as a result of of the Judgment Day faction. What’s that dynamic like?

It’s been lots of enjoyable. I got here into The Judgment Day with Finn Balor, a seasoned veteran on this enterprise. JD McDonagh, who was educated by Finn Balor. Dominik Mysterio is a generational wrestler. He’s been in the enterprise since he was, like, seven years outdated. My greatest good friend, Raquel Rodriguez, and now, my little prodigy, Roxanne Perez. I feel that all of us simply love WWE at first. We love the tales we get to inform with The Judgment Day. We have lots of enjoyable collectively. We belief one another. It’s actually a tight-knit group, even by means of all the modifications throughout the completely different iterations over the final 4 or so years. I do know I can belief them. I do know that they’ll give me sincere suggestions. I do know that they need me to succeed, and I need them to succeed. Well, possibly not Finn anymore, however everybody else.

Do you suppose the storytelling facet of wrestling doesn’t get talked about sufficient?

I really feel like generally when folks hear WWE, they only suppose of the leisure and the wrestling and never all the different points that fall into it, like the character work, like the storytelling, like these loopy arcs of character that we offer.

What is the hardest factor about being a WWE famous person?

I do not know for those who’ll imagine me, however for me, nothing. I find it irresistible all. I like the journey, I like the physicality, I like the schedule. I like the accountability. I’m not saying it isn’t onerous. It’s very onerous, bodily demanding, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

You have been entrusted with a terrific deal of accountability.

If it had been some other manner, I’d be upset. This is strictly the accountability and the function I need inside WWE.

How did the power-couple dynamic between you and Dom develop?

I really feel like the crowd could be very invested in us, and so they need to know what is going on to occur subsequent with us. Like, are they going to interrupt up? Are they going to get married? Like, is he going to cheat on her? They’re so enthralled by what may very well be. And in order that’s tremendous enjoyable for me, as a result of we wish that funding. We need them to care about what we will do subsequent. To have so many individuals emotionally invested in my relationship is the coolest feeling.

How do you are feeling about your upcoming match at WrestleMania 42 and the manner it has been constructed?

I find it irresistible, as a result of truthfully, Stephanie and I actually don’t have any enterprise collectively apart from: I need your championship. And so I feel that we have made it actually private and actually bodily. They know we don’t like one another. I feel they know it is on website once we see one another. Like, I’m speaking about her mom. I referred to as her mom trash final week.

Looked such as you realized some preventing phrases in Spanish, too.

One factor about me is I’m gonna adapt, bitch. I’ll determine a method to talk with you. I’ll open up my little Spanish dictionary. [Laughs] Actually, Raquel helped me that day. I needed to say one thing out of pocket. And I believed, like, your mom is trash. That’s how I’m going to get her to return out and face me, as a result of nobody’s gonna keep in the again once they’re calling out your mom. If you speak about my mom bitch, I’m coming for you. I do not give a fuck what I’m doing in that second, I’m coming for you. So I knew that was gonna get her.

As somebody who speaks Spanish, I used to be shocked while you mentioned all that.

But did I eat it up?

You completely did. Was there ever a light-weight swap second the place you knew your life was going to vary eternally?

I really feel like I’ve had a pair moments the place I knew my life was going to vary eternally.

When I received signed to WWE, I knew that was sufficient for me. Being there was sufficient for me. Also, getting referred to as as much as the primary roster. Going from NXT to SmackDown, that was one other second the place I used to be, like, all proper, I made it to the main leagues now. I feel once I received the Money in the Bank match and beat Ronda Rousey for my very first ever championship, that was additionally a really pivotal second for me. I used to be like, holy shit. I simply beat all these different girls on this Money in the Bank match, and I simply defeated Ronda fucking Rousey for my first-ever WWE Championship.

I grew up as simply one other fan in the stands, identical to our viewers. And so to have this second of intense, intense accomplishment and achievement was very surreal to me. The Liv Morgan revenge tour in opposition to Rhea Ripley. Me stealing Dominik from her, me stealing The Judgment Day from her, me stealing the Women’s World Championship from her. And we’re speaking about Rhea Ripley, , one of the high girls in WWE. And I did that. And in order that was one other second the place I simply was like, I really feel like I is likely to be tapping into one thing completely different and new and one thing that I wanted to faucet into.

Do you suppose little you, preventing along with her older brothers in the yard, might have ever imagined the heights that Liv Morgan has reached in the present day?

It actually makes me cry. No, , I feel that was at all times like my hopes and my goals, however rising up in a household with no cash, no connections, [WWE] feels very very similar to pipe goals, like issues that you just usually will not be going to have the ability to accomplish. When you have a look at my life on paper, I should not be in the WWE. I should not be filming for the cowl of PAPER Magazine. And yeah, I get up each single day with pinch-me moments, feeling blessed and simply so grateful for the issues I get to do on this life. My household thinks it is so insane. You know what I imply? Like, WWE was all of our goals. Now they’ll go to WrestleMania and hopefully watch me develop into the new Women’s World Champion.