This previous February, Bea Priestley, formally referred to as Blair Davenport, was launched from WWE after working within the firm for practically 4 years. Sadly, Priestley was solely on the primary roster for 9 months and was booked for simply six matches throughout her time on “WWE SmackDown,” with the promotion by no means giving her a lot of an opportunity to succeed. That mentioned, in keeping with the 29-year-old in a latest interview with “Cultaholic,” she was relieved after getting the decision that she had been launched.
“It was a type of issues, you do not understand how sad you’re till you’re feeling glad that you have the decision saying that you do not have a job anymore. In order that was form of a factor, I used to be like, oh okay possibly it was good for me.”
Though Priestly was conscious that she wasn’t given many alternatives to seek out success on the blue model, she did touch upon the quantity of assist she was given following her launch, explaining that it felt satisfying to know her co-workers cared about her.
“I do not take something personally, it is a enterprise, however I do assume lots of people felt dangerous for me as a result of I solely simply bought known as up. I did not also have a yr on “SmackDown” or on “RAW” or no matter. So the quantity of outreach I bought from precise expertise inside the firm mainly saying how sorry they have been and the way they want me the very best … it was good to be like, ‘Oh properly lots of people do truly care about me.'”
Priestly has solely wrestled as soon as since being launched from WWE, as she made her NJPW debut earlier this month and defeated Viva Van at Resurgence within the Toyota Enviornment in Ontario, California.
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