The last time we saw Trinity Fatu (Naomi) in a WWE ring was in May 2022. At the time, it was reported that she and Mercedes Moné (Sasha Banks) had walked out of the company after a dispute over the Women's Tag Team Championships backstage at RAW.
WWE made a point of shaming them for making that decision on air and neither woman chose to return to the company.
For the most part, fans understood why that was. Prior to their departure, Fatu and Moné had been told to put their title reign on hold for individual feuds with RAW Women's Champion Bianca Belair and SmackDown Women's Champion Ronda Rousey.
However, the plan was for them to come out on the losing end of both matches, and neither woman was happy about being made to look like ineffective champions after spending months building the titles up.
Now part of IMPACT Wrestling, Trinity recently talked to New York Post about the fallout from her WWE departure and whether she hopes to work with Moné again.
"I wouldn’t want to do it with anyone else other than her, whatever that is. I'll always do what’s best for her, what’s best for me and what’s best for the business. If it’s something that comes up that makes sense for the both of us, hell yeah."
"Me and her, we just had each other it felt like. Other than Tamina, Bayley checking in on us regularly, that was it. We just had each other going through that. Nobody understands the magnitude of what happened and what really went on and why we feel the way we feel and where we are but me and her and the people that were involved that day."
"It just goes to show how real our friendship is and how real all of this is."
There's clearly more to the story about why these two left WWE, but whether we'll ever learn more about what went down remains to be seen. Both Trinity and Moné have seemingly left the door open to returning to the company and, with Vince McMahon no longer in charge of creative, it could eventually happen.
However, bad-mouthing WWE probably wouldn't be the best way to facilitate an eventual comeback!