Saraya has found great success since her AEW debut a year ago at AEW Dynamite: Grand Slam.
Despite being medically retired for years due to spinal stenosis, the former WWE Superstar was cleared shortly after joining All Elite Wrestling.
In a recent interview with Metro, Saraya revealed that she expected to turn heel eventually in AEW, as the fans would turn on her, which eventually happened. She said,
“I always wanted to be a heel, even before [AEW] knew I was gonna be wrestling again. I always wanted to be a bad guy. Because I already knew it wasn’t going to be long until they turned on me. I knew that. I said that – having conversations before I came to AEW, I was speaking to Jon Moxley, I was speaking to [Chris] Jericho, I was speaking to Tony Khan.”
She continued, “They were all telling me, ‘You’re gonna be a babyface first because people are just gonna be happy to see you.’ It was really frustrating. What I kept doing is I kept throwing in heelish things in promos or how I acted, things like that. I wanted that slow burn anyway and then eventually I was gonna get the opportunity to turn heel – I just had to wait a little bit. It worked out!”
