When Kaitlyn parted ways with WWE in 2014 a number of wrestling fans were shocked as the departure was sudden and unexpected. Luckily Kaitlyn eventually made her way back to WWE when she competed in the Mae Young Classic in 2018.
Kaitlyn defeated Kavita Devi in a first round match, then went on to lose to Mia Yim in a second round match. Following the match WWE offered Kaitlyn a contract, but she recently revealed during an appearance on Insight with Chris Van Vliet that she didn’t sign the contract because she hated the name Kaitlyn.
“I’m really glad I did because I got to experience the Performance Center, and I wrestled, I can’t remember her name for my first match. It was like a very basic match, but my second match I wrestled Mia Yim, and Mia Yim is dope. I had never met her in person, but she was a big supporter of Celestial Bodies, and she was posting my stuff and tagging me. I thought she had a cool style, and we had a great match. We had such a good match. I tapped out, and I was so proud of it, and I loved it. I was like if I never wrestle again for WWE, this is such a good match. I would be happy if this is my last match.
So I tapped out, and I was coming out of the ring, and then this was at Full Sail, and then Hunter comes out, and this was a shoot. He announced it. He gave her a contract that night. That’s when she got her contract, and I was like this is so dope! I wanted that for her. I think she had been wrestling for a while and she didn’t have a contract, and then they offered me a contract.
Essentially, I didn’t want to go back as Kaitlyn. I hated the name, Kaitlyn. It’s not that I hated it; it just didn’t resonate. I’m like, who is that? At the time, I had Celestial Bodies, and I had this conversation with Canyon, and he came back to me, and he’s like, ‘Hunter thinks that you just want to wrestle under your name because it’s going to build your business’ I’m like, even if that was the case. But it was like over a weird name thing. If I was like, oh, I really want a contract, I think I would have been fine going back.”