In a recent appearance on “The Ten Count” podcast, TNA alumna Angelina Love recalled how she nearly debuted on the WWE main roster.
Love discussed how her initial tryout led to an option to wait for the launch of Deep South Wrestling or debut in OVW, her canceled WWE debut, and more.
Love noted that her injuries as well as creative rewrites led to the cancelation of her WWE debut.
You can check out some highlights from the interview below:
On deciding wait for DSW instead of going to OVW: “I guess this decided to be the wrong choice, but I decided to wait because I felt like OVW was so full. Mickie [James] was still there, Jillian [Hall], Melina and Michelle McCool … there were so many people. I feared I would get lost in the shuffle.”
On an injury delaying her WWE debut: “I tore my ACL training, 10 days before I was supposed to debut [on Raw]. So that put me out, actually before I was even medically cleared, so that was in January ’06, I tore it. I had surgery on March 1. August 2006, I was brought to SmackDown to possibly do something. I was placed in the crowd, and it was the first segment of the show. So, they were doing dark match Velocity. That’s when Booker was doing his King Booker thing and he knighted Finlay and Regal in the ring. My segment was supposed to be next.
“Then I got pulled from the floor by the guy who sat next to me. He said Vince rewrote the entire show as soon as it started, and my segment and the match that my segment was coming from were cut. He rewrote the whole show. Then it was like, ‘Well, we’ll probably have you back next week,’ and then that never happened… I was supposed to go on a Tuesday to SmackDown because they were doing ECW before Smackdown, but then the Thursday prior, I got released.”
