A few weeks ago Saraya shocked the world when she made her AEW debut at Grand Slam. Saraya is now a key figure in the AEW women’s division and she’s also been opening up about her WWE departure.
Back in 2017, Saraya was forced into early retirement due to a career threatening injury, but she landed a role as the General Manager of SmackDown. During an appearance on Talk Is Jericho, Saraya noted that she loved the GM job and she didn’t understand why it got cut short.
“I got to be [“SmackDown”] GM and I loved it, but then that kind of got cut short. And I never really understood why because it was a great gig and I feel like everyone liked it. I never got anything negative from it, but it was just shocking.”
“Road Dogg is so sweet and he’s always trying to baby me. And he was just like, ‘So, we’re probably not going to do the GM anymore, so you won’t have to come to work tomorrow.’ And then he decided that I was going to come and do a goodbye speech as GM, which I thought was really sweet, too. So, I ended up like flying in, doing that first segment of the show, and then flying back.”
The former WWE Divas Champion went on to say that she felt useless during her last few years with WWE, and she kept pitching ideas that were unfortunately turned down.
“But I ended up sitting in my house for three or four years. And that’s the most depressing thing, because you just feel like you’re completely useless. And then you can’t go and do anything else because you’re under a contract where even though you’re an independent contractor, you still have to get permission to do stuff. And then it would get turned down.”
H/T Wrestling Inc.
