Saraya Calls Final Years With WWE ‘Depressing’

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AEW star Saraya has opened up about her final years in WWE, after an injury in a 2017 match forced her into an earlier retirement.

Saraya made her debut for AEW at the company’s AEW Dynamite Grand Slam event on September 21, when she confronted Britt Baker, Jamie Hayter and Serena Deeb following the interim AEW Women’s World Championship match.

Speaking in an interview with Chris Jericho on the Talk Is Jericho podcast, Saraya spoke about her final years in WWE.

She said:

“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.”

She spoke about how former SmackDown head “Road Dogg” Brian James told her that she would no longer be general manager.

She revealed:

“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.”

She then said that she pitched several other ideas to WWE, including non-wrestling media appearances and a role as a manager.

She said:

“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.”

Saraya is currently in the early stages of a feud with fellow AEW star Britt Baker. It is not known when she will make her in-ring return.

She was cleared to compete by AEW doctors shortly after her return.

Transcript courtesy of WrestlingInc.

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