Former WWE personality Dasha Fuentes spoke with Chris Van Vliet about her release from WWE recently, which apparently stems from an interview she did with Roman Reigns that management wasn’t too keen on:
"My manager at the time told me I was being released," Fuentes said.
"I don't want to name too many names, but my manager called me—and that was another thing, they called me on a Tuesday and I was told 'After the events that occurred on Monday Night Raw, we are taking you off TV and you're not going to WrestleMania.'
"I literally went back and I watched the interview and there a tiny little blip that happened but it was live, it was with Roman and I figured it was a pretty good interview and I could see the growth and consistency that was happening from week to week. So I was like 'Series of events?' and I was just taken aback. I figured I would relax and not freak out about this, maybe they're going to send me back to NXT because a lot of people don't know that I ring announced for NXT and that's my passion, I love ring announcing.
"I was told I'd get a call the next week and told what was going on. Well, the following Monday after WrestleMania I got a call that lasted literally like a minute and a half and they said 'We're letting you go' and I was like 'Well, thanks for 5 years.' and that's it."
Fuentes made her debut with the company back in 2015 and started her time in developmental before climbing her way to the main roster. As many have noted, the transition from NXT to RAW or Smackdown was vastly different, with the most notable being how robotic Fuentes and just about every other interviewer on the main roster is.
Fuentes addressed why she came across this way on the main roster, noting that the company didn’t want the interviewers aiding in forming biases, but found it to be a challenging task:
"It's trying to oddly find that balance of not showing too much personality which as you can see I kind of have a little bit of it and showcasing the talent because at the end of the day it's about the talent and what it is that they have to say," Fuentes explained.
"They don't want us to skew any opinions or form any biases about what's going on so for me that's the hard part because I'm all or nothing."
Check out the full interview, in which Fuentes talks about plans consistently changing in the company, her originally signing with the WWE to be a wrestler, and much more.