Briana Brandy (B-FAB) recently sat down with The Angle Podcast, where she recalled being promoted to SmackDown and then being quickly released and soon followed by the rest of Hit Row.
Hit Row didn’t know when exactly they were going to be called up, but they were still present alongside all the potential names involved: “So, we didn’t really know that we were going to be drafted for sure. They had everybody who was being considered for the draft come to RAW and SmackDown that weekend just to be there to see what happens. So, they didn’t tell anybody what was going on. So, the whole night we are backstage. Everybody is like, ‘oh, welcome to the team,’ or, ‘are you nervous, are you excited to be here?’ It was mixed signals. Some people were saying, ‘welcome,’ some people were saying, ‘what do you think is going to happen?’ So, we didn’t know anything.”
They found out while meeting Bruce Prichard backstage: “We are walking in the hall and Bruce Prichard stopped us. And we were talking to him for a second,” she said. “He was like, ‘oh yeah, next week you’re going to have a writing team assigned to you guys.’ And we are like, ‘what?’ And he’s like, ‘yeah, we are going to have a writing team assigned to you next week.’ We are like, ‘we don’t know anything, we don’t know if we are getting drafted.’ He’s like, ‘oh yeah, welcome to the team.’ In that moment, we are like, ‘oh my gosh, this is happening, we are getting drafted.’ So we all stayed calm talking to him in that moment, we go around the corner, and we all just connected and started jumping up and down. It was amazing.”
