A number of WWE contracts have expired in recent months, and now it looks like a WWE Hall of Famer is officially done with the company. During a recent episode of Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Beth Phoenix confirmed that she is now a free agent as her contract with WWE has expired.
“I am not (under contract to WWE). I am currently a free agent. I have a great relationship with WWE. I treasured my time there. I feel like there’s more, there’s other opportunities that have presented themselves. I feel the motivation right now to kind of explore and explore what else is out there and explore myself but my relationship with WWE hasn’t changed.
I have so many friends there and I appreciate and I enjoy the product as I always have and I love NXT, I have a special place in my heart for NXT of course and just the system and seeing young people come up and go through that excitement of developing themselves for the big time. I love WWE, I always will.
(I’m talking) everything else and wrestling opportunities in there too. I haven’t closed the door on the thought of offering maybe a wrestling school or offering — myself and my husband have so many years of television experience and you know, we can teach top wrist locks and stuff but, there’s a difference in teaching working for cameras and promos and even just creating a story that’s compelling and leaves people talking about it and wanting to come back for more. The storytelling nuances of the business, I feel like we have a lot to share and teach.”
Beth Phoenix last wrestled when she teamed up with Edge to defeat the team of Rhea Ripley and Finn Balor at the Elimination Chamber premium live event in 2023.
While talking about whether or not she’s interested in potentially returning to the ring in the future Phoenix said, “Yeah, I don’t know (if I could have another match). It’s really hard to say you’re retired, which when I left in 2012, that was the word I threw around a lot. ‘I’m retired, I’m retired,’ because I wanted to have a family and I knew for myself that wasn’t going to be in congruence to perform and to have kids. I needed to devote myself to the kids at that time. I give the age-old cliché answer that everybody hates is like, never say never. But, it really just depends on the opportunities and what suits our family. That’s really it.”
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