Following her recent WWE release as one of several names that were cut following the closure of NXT UK, Dani Luna has spoken to NBC Sports Boston about her time in WWE.
You can check out some highlights from Dani Luna’s appearance below:
On the difference between her being released not fired: “No, I was released. I don’t want to set any of those rumors alight. I was released under very nice terms. I wasn’t fired. It was just a case of what they’re doing at the moment doesn’t fit what I’m doing at the moment kind of thing. Obviously I was in good company, so I can’t be too upset. I still have all my friends.”
On whether or not WWE deciding to release her was a surprise: “I don’t know if blindsided is the word. It’s just I guess, NXT Europe is planning to be such a bigger than NXT UK ever was. So to do that, they have to take these big steps, and I understand that. If, down the line, they’re like, oh, we want Dani Luna in NXT Europe, then great news. But until then, I’m just me.”
On NXT UK’s decline, and the effect of the Speaking Out Movement: “I don’t know. I don’t know if it was necessarily WWE’s fault, or obviously we had the whole Speaking Out Movement over here as well, so I don’t know if that obviously affected it a little bit too. So I don’t know if there was just a period, especially during the pandemic, where wrestling was just kind of a touchy subject, and I feel like sometimes we just got the bad end of that. But I do think, completely unbiased, that we had some of the best pro wrestling in that ring, and it’s a shame that more people didn’t get to see it because I watched some of the best matches I’ve ever seen. But I don’t think so. I think it was just a case of wrong place, wrong time.”
On how quickly the close of NXT UK came about: “It was a pretty quick turnaround, to be honest. But the same you hear all these rumors, we hear them all too, and it’s even more unsettling when you work there, you know. So it’s just a case of it happened, and we were all understandably upset, but like you said, it didn’t necessarily have the biggest viewership in the world. So from a business perspective, you can’t really be like, ‘Oh that’s unfair.’ If it’s not making them money, I can’t be like, ‘Oh you have to keep me because I want to work in WWE.’ It’s not up to me. It’s a lot bigger than just us all.”
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(h/t – Fightful)
