Former WWE star Elektra Lopez has opened up on her release from the promotion.
Now, almost three months after her release, Lopez recently appeared on the Fan’s View podcast and got candid about her WWE exit. Believing that she was not given a fair opportunity there, Lopez expressed,
“I was super surprised because I was just on TV that Friday. It was out of nowhere. I was at TV on Friday and we had just gotten assigned a new writer. I was super excited. I had been pitching ideas for months. I was saying I wanted to be on live events and wanted to work with girls because I want to wrestle.
I don’t want to just manage. I don’t mind managing, but I want to be able to do both because of how it was when I was in NXT, I was mostly managing them and I wanted it to be different because I wanted to wrestle. I can wrestle and when I tried out, I tried out as a wreslter, not as a manger. I can do both and have no problem doing that, but I also wanted to build a name for myself, not just be in the shadows of the boys.”
She further said,
“I was on TV that Friday. People were getting released while we were at work. ‘Oh shit, maybe I dodged this bullet this round.’ I get home and it was maybe 2:30 in the afternoon and I get a call, and they told me the news. No reason given. Nothing. Again, I’m not saying anything bad about anybody, I don’t want that to be misconstrued, but I had worked so hard for this and I feel like I wasn’t given a fair opportunity.
If I were given an opportunity and I failed, I can understand it, but you didn’t really give me an opportunity to show you what I can do when I’m more than just a manager. You brought me up to be in the role and put me in a box and then you cut me because it didn’t work out. You didn’t let me open that box and show you what I can do. I was very surprised. Got no explanation as to what the reason was. I was very shocked. It was a year to the day that I had gotten called up to the main roster.”
H/t Fightful
Ahead of her release, Elektra Lopez used to manage Legado del Fantasma (Santos Escobar, Angel, & Berto). An aspiring in-ring performer for WWE, Lopez wrestled her last match for the promotion on 6th December, 2024.
TNA Was Interested In Signing Former WWE Star Elektra Lopez
Earlier this year, Dr. Chris Featherstone of Sportskeeda’s Backstage Pass reported that TNA was interested in signing Elektra Lopez once she became a free agent. She was present backstage during a TNA taping.
Lopez, now known as Karissa Rivera, became a free agent earlier this month, but nothing concrete has been heard about her TNA appearances. She is next scheduled to wrestle at HOG Puerto Rican weekend on June 7th.
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