Saraya has been in the professional wrestling business for a long time, and back in September of 2011 she signed a contract with World Wrestling Entertainment. The former WWE Divas Champion originally tried out for WWE in November of 2010, but unfortunately things didn’t work out for her the first time around.
In the years that followed Saraya went on to become one of the top stars in the women’s division, but she recently talked about her first WWE tryout on the Broad Ideas podcast, and she recalled what the experience was like.
“I was 18 at the time, I did the (WWE) tryout and they were just like, ‘No,’ and there was a guy at the time that worked as T.R. that pretty much said I wasn’t pretty enough to be there too, which broke my heart… He doesn’t work there anymore. He hasn’t worked there for years but he said, you know, I wasn’t pretty enough to be there and I needed to lose some baby weight and all that kind of stuff.
I was a kid and I was like, oh, that’s kind of hard to deal with and I tried to dress like how I thought divas should dress, right? So I wore color, my hair was lighter, I took my piercings out. I had lip rings and gauges and stuff and I took them all out because I was like, ‘No, I have to be a diva’ and so I felt like he saw right through that and I wasn’t being myself so maybe I wasn’t the most beautiful version of myself but you know, because I was trying to be something I wasn’t. So then, I came back like six months later. I just wore all black. I wore all black, I kept my piercings in, I had all black hair and I had a little blonde piece right here and I think I have a picture of it somewhere…”
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