Former WWE Star Discusses Potential Return Amid Company Crossover

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A current TNA Wrestling and former WWE star has discussed a potential return amid the ongoing crossover between the companies,

Numerous TNA stars have appeared on WWE NXT television in recent weeks, with Joe Hendry, Zachary Wentz, Trey Miguel and Jordynne Grace among those making appearances on the show, with numerous NXT stars also appearing on TNA IMPACT, including the No Quarter Catch Crew and Wes Lee being set to appear on TNA Slammiversary.

Speaking to Women’s Wrestling Talk, TNA star Steph De Lander (former WWE star Persia Pirotta) discussed WWE’s crossover with TNA.

She said:

“I think it’s a cool time in wrestling because we’ve never seen this before, we’ve never seen WWE so openly cross promoting with other promotions in this way. We’ve had Jordynne Grace and Joe Hendry and The Rascalz on NXT, we had Tatum Paxley on TNA, we had AJ Styles and IYO just wrestle in Japan this past week. There’s so many moving parts for everyone. I don’t see a drawback, I don’t think it would be ignorant to say that there’s probably a part of TNA’s extreme success of selling out Slammiversary and how well they’re doing right now, I’m sure part of that could be this new buzz with the WWE crossovers. I think WWE is benefiting too by being able to take the biggest stars from TNA and use them on their show. I feel like it’s one of those things where it’s kind of like they scratch our back and we scratch theirs.”

De Lander commented on the possibility of her making an appearance on WWE television, she noted that it would come down to circumstance.

She added:

“As far as whether or not I’d be interested in doing that too, it would all come down to circumstance. I feel like there are some interesting story beats that could be explored at some point and that’s really what I care about more than anything else at this point. I’m not really interested in having a cool match with whoever, I don’t really care about that. For me, it’s more like, who there do I have unfinished business with and there actually is a couple people that I do have unfinished business with in reality and in storyline. Whatever happens, if I were to show up in WWE, it would definitely be something worth keeping your eyes on for sure.

“I think if you watched me in WWE, I was literally in the middle of a love storyline when I was released. I was dating Duke Hudson. One week I was on TV, the next week I wasn’t. I was in a situation where I have a boyfriend in NXT and I have a boyfriend in TNA. That in itself is interesting, you know? Also, I was tagging with my best friend Indi Hartwell. We were in the middle of a tag team. She’s still in WWE, I’m in TNA, I think there’s something interesting there. We’ll see what happens.”

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