WWE has released a number of surprising names over the last year, and fans were shocked when The IIconics were released from their contracts following WrestleMania 37.
After The IIconics split up both Peyton Royce and Billie Kay ended up getting lost in the shuffle, and Royce, now known as Cassie Lee, recently told Cageside Seats that she pitched the idea of returning to NXT.
“I actually asked to go back and it was kind of, you know, it ‘was being looked into,’ is what I was told and then I got released.”
Cassie went on to say that she would have loved to explore a potential babyface run with the team and that 2020 was her favorite run for The IIconics.
“Yeah, I mean, we would have loved to explore what it would be like to be the good guys. But on top of that, like when, when we kind of came back, we had a little bit of a hiatus, and we came back early 2020 and we were kind of in the championship story. I wish we got to stay in that a bit longer because that was my favorite era of us. I think it was our best combination of who we are as people and as characters and then the fact that we could still go in championship matches, as well. I would have liked to have taken more time with that.”
The IIconics have since rebranded themselves as The IInspiration, and they recently announced tour dates which will see them appear at several wrestling events this month.
H/T Fightful
