@voltagenia is live

@VOLTAGENIA IS LIVE [Instagram Live broadcast. @voltagenia. Approximately 21:40 GMT. Duration on screen: 14:22 at the time of capture. Viewer count fluctuates between 3,400 and 5,100 throughout. Comments selected for relevance — others omitted. The camera is propped at a low angle on what appears to be a stack of books on a coffee table. Background is a corner of a South London flat — a portion of a poster on the wall (CRYSTAL PALACE FC, partial), a houseplant of indeterminate species, a half-open closet door. NIA ADEYEMI is on a worn grey sofa, sat cross-legged, in a black hoodie and joggers, hair up. A glass of Lucozade Sport on the coffee table just visible at the bottom of frame. She has just gone live.] NIA: Hiiii. Hi hi hi. Hold on — [adjusts the phone, the camera tilts, settles] — there we go, that's better. Sorry, the angle was making me look like I had three chins. We can't have that on the internet. NIA: Right. Who's here. [reads scrolling chat] Okay, Liverpool, Manchester, somewhere called — is that Rotorua? New Zealand? Hi New Zealand, it's like seven in the morning where you are, I'm honoured. Hi Birmingham. Hi Brixton. Hi everyone. [chat: i love you nia] NIA: I love you too, anonymous person whose username I'm not going to read out loud. We're keeping it professional tonight. Sort of. NIA: Okay so a few people have been asking about Saturday. Which I'm going to talk about for, like, four minutes, because I don't actually find it that interesting? But you lot keep asking, so. Saturday. Behind Closed Doors 7. I'm fighting Sera Voss. [chat: SHE WROTE A 1000 WORD ESSAY ABOUT YUSRA] NIA: She did write a thousand-word essay about Yusra. [laughs] Yeah, no, that's actually what I want to talk about, hold on — [She picks up her phone — a second phone, separate from the one streaming — and scrolls.] NIA: Right. So she put a document on the federation site about the woman she was fighting two weeks ago and now I assume one's coming about me, but it hasn't dropped yet, so the available material is this one. And babes — I just want to read you a bit of it. NIA: She wrote — [reads from her phone, slowly, like savouring] — "Sleep at twenty-two hundred hours. Breakfast at six hundred hours. Light shadow drill at eight. Tape review at nine. Travel to building at fourteen." NIA: That was in her document. About a fight. [She looks directly at the camera.] NIA: I want you all to know I'm having Lucozade Sport at twenty-one forty-five hours. [holds it up to the camera] On a Tuesday. On Live. To roughly four thousand of you. This is my fight prep. This is happening. [chat: GET HERRRR] [chat: she's so cooked nia don't] [chat: nia is voltage a wrestling name or a porn name lol] NIA: Bro. [laughing] It's a wrestling name. I made it up. Second professional match, I was nineteen, the promoter wanted to call me "The Electric Lady" — which is a porn name, that one — and I grabbed the mic from the ring announcer and announced myself as Voltage and it stuck. So. That's the story. Don't ask me again. [chat: what's your finisher called] [chat: ^^^ Power Surge keep up] [chat: thank you king/queen] NIA: Power Surge. That one's also mine. I name everything myself. It's the only thing I'm precious about. [She picks up the streaming phone, adjusts the angle slightly, settles back into the sofa.] NIA: Right, so — back to Voss. The document's not why I find her funny. The document's just the surface. The thing I find funny is that she thinks the answer to fighting me is to schedule it. She thinks if she does enough planning, the fight stops being the fight and becomes the document. And then she wins the document. NIA: I'm not in the document, babe. NIA: I'm doing my prep right now. This is it. This — [gestures at the screen] — and a workout in the morning, and one rope-bouncing session tomorrow night, and that's the prep. The match is what happens in the cage on Saturday. The match isn't on a schedule. The match is what happens when the bell goes. [chat: how does it feel being on the card with Lacey on the other half] [chat: ^^^^ who do you think wins eventually] NIA: [pause, drinks Lucozade] Lacey wins until Lacey loses. That's the thing about Lacey. She doesn't look like a champion and then somehow she's the champion. I respect her. I'd love to fight her. But I'm not in front of her yet. I'm in front of Voss. One thing at a time. [chat: where did you train] [chat: ^^^ Janet's gym] NIA: Janet. Yeah. Janet doesn't watch my matches anymore, by the way, which is fine. She watched my first four and then said, quote — and Janet doesn't curse so this is significant — "I have seen enough." Which from Janet is basically a knighthood. Hi Janet, if you're watching, I know you're not. [chat: nia what are you actually gonna do to voss] NIA: [smiles, big] NIA: I'm gonna stay off the canvas. That's it. That's the strategy. She wants me on the canvas. I'm not going on the canvas. Everything else is detail. If I'm in the air, she can't grapple me. So I'm gonna be in the air. NIA: I'm gonna land on her so often she'll think the ceiling's falling. And then I'm gonna win. [chat: PLEAAASE] [chat: i need this] [chat: i love you forever] NIA: I love you all forever. Okay I'm gonna go because I've been on for fifteen minutes and my flatmate's about to come home and she will absolutely roast me if she sees me doing this. [laughs] Okay. Saturday. Behind Closed Doors 7. Watch me. I'll be the one having a much better time than Voss. NIA: Goodnight, you lot. [blows a kiss to the camera] Voltage out. [The stream ends. The recording fades to black.]