Lacey Lane: WWE Set Up Women's Tag Team for Failure

Former WWE stars Kayden Carter (present AEW/ROH star Lacey Lane) and Katana Likelihood (Kacy Catanzaro) have been the primary tag group to have gained the WWE and the NXT Girls’s Tag Crew Titles. But, as Lacey Lane advised Denise Salcedo in a current interview, she didn’t really feel that WWE precisely revered them.

Lacey Lane Says She And Kacy Catanzaro Have been Set Up To Fail

Lane shared a narrative with Salcedo about how she wasn’t the one one who felt that they have been being set as much as fail. At one time, after they have been backstage at SmackDown, Catanzaro was crying as a result of they put their finest on the market and by no means acquired anyplace within the firm. They gained the WWE Tag Crew Titles in 2023, and that was their solely massive hurrah of their WWE careers. WWE did not precisely know what to do with them. She mentioned:

“Kacy and I, we had our ups and downs collectively, and fortunately we had one another to be there for these moments. I simply bear in mind—I’ve mentioned this earlier than—her and I returning to SmackDown within the UK, it simply felt like we have been arrange for such failure. We tried to do our greatest to do no matter and it simply felt like we have been arrange simply to fail, and it was the toughest factor. We went again and we simply—she had some tears, after which I adopted behind her and he or she mentioned the identical factor. She mentioned, ‘I simply really feel like we’re at all times set as much as fail and we now have to at all times work so laborious to make one thing out of nothing. We have now to go on the market and kill it in three minutes or no matter state of affairs they put us in.’” (h/t: WrestlePurists)

There was a lot dialogue currently about wrestlers profiting from their time within the ring when given solely minutes or generally seconds. To say that Kacy and Lacey did simply that will be right. Even when they felt defeated as a result of their careers have been stalled, they nonetheless made probably the most of their restricted alternatives.

Says She And Kacy Wished To Be The Greatest Tag Crew In WWE

Lane added how she and Catanzaro weren’t simply two folks “caught collectively,” they legitimately wished to alter the way in which followers checked out tag group wrestling. The 2 would make their principal roster debut on SmackDown in 2023. After “American Ninja,” Catanzaro signed with WWE in August 2017, whereas Lane signed with WWE in July 2018. She mentioned:

“We all know in our hearts that we fought so laborious to be such a great tag group. We’d been a tag group for our complete existence in WWE just about, and that is why it was laborious for us. It is not any shade to anyone. It is simply that we labored so laborious as a result of we wished so dangerous to be among the best tag groups that ever existed. And that was a real aim of ours. Not simply two folks caught collectively or like after they did not know what to do with anybody and simply put them in a tag group. We legitimately wished to alter the way in which that folks checked out tag group wrestling. And in order that’s why it was a irritating journey for us.”

Lane and Catanzaro have been launched from WWE in Might 2025. Their final match with the corporate was a darkish match on the April 18, 2025, episode of SmackDown, the place they defeated Alba Fyre and Piper Niven. That was the final time that Catanzaro was in a match, whereas Lane has been wrestling since then. On the October 7, 2025, episode of Dynamite, she confronted Mercedes Mone with the TBS Title on the road. Mone would efficiently retain the title.