Over the last few years a number of people have parted ways with WWE and back in June of 2024, Kayla Braxton announced that she was leaving the company.
Braxton had been part of the WWE broadcast team since 2016, and she recently explained why she decided to move on from her role with the company during an appearance on Busted Open Radio.
“That’s kind of when I decided to step away. The Bump was done, I wasn’t hosting the Kickoff shows anymore. They brought in Jackie Redmond, who’s phenomenal and she deserves every part of that position that she has.
“Everything was switching over in WWE obviously. So I could kind of see the writing on the wall. I knew I wasn’t gonna be happy going back into that, showing up, grueling travel, to maybe get one pre-written interview.
“My creativity was stifled, I wasn’t allowed to do any outside projects, and as a woman, I’m getting a little older. I’m not gonna wake up in five more years and still be stuck doing this when I have these other things that I wanna be doing. So that ultimately was the reason to walk away, and the company was really supportive of it, or they were just like, ‘Thank god she’s leaving and we don’t have to be the bad guys.’”
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