Former Alba Fyre further clarifies WWE departure, names dream opponents
During an appearance on Busted Open Radio, Kay Lee Ray (the former Alba Fyre) clarified comments she had previously made about her WWE departure.
KLR departed WWE in the company’s post-WrestleMania 42 roster cuts. It was originally assumed that she was released from her contract, but this was instead a non-renewal where her deal was allowed to expire. KLR told Daily Star that she was faced with the decision of whether to stay or go, which some took to mean it was her decision to leave WWE. But KLR actually meant that she was in the middle of deciding whether she wanted to re-sign or not when she got the call informing her that her deal would not be renewed.
“I think in the last [interview] I did, maybe the words were a little bit misconstrued. I had been thinking for a while if I wanted to re-sign or not,” she said. “As I said before, I’ve been with WWE for a long time, so at least wanted to give them the courtesy of having that conversation. And I knew my contract was up. And I think it was like three weeks by the time I spoke to them, maybe four. And it was at Mania.
“So I was like, ‘Look, I know we’re really, really busy right now, I’m not asking to have that conversation now, but can we have that possibly soon?’ And then unfortunately, I got the phone call the next week saying that they didn’t want to be offering me anything. So on that, to me, I was like, cool, this was the decision I was already heading towards anyway, if that’s the way we want to go, that’s fine. So, yeah, it wasn’t a surprise to me. It wasn’t.”
Kay Lee Ray names her dream opponents —
With her contract expiring rather than being released, KLR was able to bypass the usual 90-day period and quickly make her return to Pro Wrestling Eve. She did not directly say in the Busted Open interview that she’s hoping to end up in AEW, but she named Willow Nightingale, Kris Statlander, and Mercedes Mone among her dream opponents.
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