As blood from a head wound drenched her face and neck, Skye Blue never felt better.

Confined in a steel cage with her opponent, Willow Nightingale, during an All Elite Wrestling Blood and Guts match in November, her forehead was sliced open after being thrown against the metal.

She quickly discovered what they say about head wounds bleeding more than wounds on other body parts is true. Did she immediately stop wrestling and call for a medic? Not a chance. Did she get any stitches? Nope, just superglue.

“I felt like the coolest human on planet Earth,” said the 26-year-old professional wrestler. “I was having the time of my life. There were moments I couldn’t see because there was so much blood in my eyes. That was the scary part. Everything was orange and yellow. On ‘Game of Thrones,’ where Jon Snow is in a Battle of the Bastards and he’s covered in blood, I felt like that. I was on cloud nine.”

Blue will wrestle on Saturday during a live taping of AEW Collision at The Broadmoor World Arena that’s simultaneously broadcast on TNT. She doesn’t know who her opponent is yet, as the lineup is determined closer to the event.

That bloody moment last year was exactly what she daydreamed about as a 17-year-old growing up in Chicago with professional wrestling fans as parents.

One day, she and her mom were watching a hardcore match — a bout where the normal rules don’t apply and competitors can use outside objects as weapons — and watched one of the wrestlers fly through something.

“I said to my mom I’m going to do that one day,” Blue said. “She said, ‘No, you’re not.’ And here we are.”

Getting into the business

Blue, whose given name is Skylar Dolecki, wasn’t joking. And her mom, instead of suppressing her daughter’s dream, actively supported it. One of her co-workers’ kids was a pro wrestler, which helped Blue find a wrestling school in Chicago and start training in 2017.

She idolized female wrestlers like Toni Storm and Madison Rayne, two women she’s now worked with during her career.

“I was always a big tomboy and very athletic growing up,” she said. “When I first started watching, it was the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) Divas era, and I wanted to do what the men were doing. I wanted to prove girls could do the same as men. And I always had to prove my mom wrong. I fell in love with it.”

Who is Skye Blue?

She initially developed her character of Blue as a bubbly, bigger version of her personality. A “quirky, smiley girl,” she says.

Eventually, though, her character took a turn for the dark side, thanks to her now tag-team partner, Julia Hart, with whom she now performs in a duo known as the Sisters of Sin.

Her turn toward the spooky was Hart’s fault.

“I blame her. She misted me,” Blue said. “Early in her career she got misted, and then she misted me. I couldn’t come back from it and now we’re tag partners and joined at the hip. I love her to pieces.”

The mist she’s referencing was a black, spooky mist that covered her face in black for a while. It was all part of her storyline created by AEW.

“One person comes up with the story and it gets approved and we’re given the opportunity to tell this story,” she said. “It’s collaborative work.”

Ironically, Dolecki has described herself as shy and quiet when she’s not in the ring.

“I tell myself once you walk through that curtain you’re not yourself anymore,” she said. “You’re Skye Blue. We’re definitely all performers. As physical as it is there’s a theater aspect. Sometimes the talking is harder than the wrestling. That’s because I was so shy and quiet, but it’s one of those things I work on.”

Full circle

It’s been almost 10 years since Blue sat on that couch and predicted her future. The hardcore matches are hard for her mom, but she hangs in there, Blue says, waiting for a post-match proof-of-life text from her daughter.

Some of the best moments of her career are bringing her parents to big events.

“My parents went to WWE SummerSlam at the United Center in 1998 and they were front row. I wasn’t even born yet,” Blue said. “The next time they got to be front row I was wrestling. Moments like that make you think oh, I do make you proud.”

If you go

What: All Elite Wrestling presents Collision, with Skye Blue

When: 5:30 p.m. Saturday

Where: The Broadmoor World Arena, 3185 Venetucci Blvd.

Price: $42-$109.75; broadmoorworldarena.com