Former WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Kayden Carter and Katana Chance were released from their contracts.
Despite the women’s tag team division being in desperate need of actual teams, WWE opted to release and break up three teams that were a benefit to the thin division. It’s a shame since Carter and Chance were an extremely talented duo, but it’s also not surprising since they were barely featured in the months leading up to their release.
Carter - whose real name is Lacey Lane - was on Busted Open Radio recently and expressed her disappointment during the last year or so of her run where she lost her spark as a WWE star (Transcript courtesy of Fightful).
“I feel like it just — it got away from me, and I’ve been feeling that. It’s so crazy. I feel like we’re just so connected and if everyone doesn’t know, I’ve learned from this man (Bully Ray) right here. A lot of the information and a lot of the things I’ve taken away and the drive and the push is because of this guy right here, you know?
Him and D-Von (Dudley) and (Jonathan) Cruz, you know, Serpentico, have really pushed and have formed that for me to be that kind of person, because of all the things that they prepared me for. So when I got to WWE, I feel like I was just very held back in what I was able to do. I’ve pitched ideas, I put myself out there, I tried new things and it just felt like, if that wasn’t the direction they wanted, I kind of had to go with whatever they had prepared for us, and then also join a tag team. I felt like I became so selfless, because at some point, I felt like, okay, let me do my teachers some justice.
I’m like, okay, I’m gonna tag team, they’re one of the greatest tag teams ever, and I was like, how can I put myself up there on that pedestal? So, tag team wrestling became such a focus. Kacy (Catanzaro) became one of my best friends that was there, my rock and everything and we shared so much up and downs together that I think all the tough things that we went through there, and her wanting to leave at some point, us not knowing (where) our future was headed and stuff like that and us having that bond together put us stronger as a tag team and I kind of just left that individual in the back, and she never showed up… I always felt that. Because you know me, I’m just like that fire.
I have that fire, have that passion and I still have it now, and that’s why I’m so eager just to be out there, just to really show people, like, damn, she was there the whole time. If she was just given a chance on something. One PLE, one individual thing. When she broke her nose, I was pitching, I keep pitching, like, ‘Hey, can I do something? Just to show you? Anything?’ But, it was never in my favor so, I just feel like that’s where it’s at.”
But despite her release, Lane isn’t giving up pro wrestling. At the moment, it doesn’t seem that Kacy will continue her career in wrestling as she was just confirmed for American Ninja Warrior, but Lane is looking for any opportunity that presents itself.
“It just feels like a relief to me because I feel like I have so much to offer and I feel like I wasn’t able to showcase that. People are used to seeing me in a tag team, and I love that. I will never, ever take anything away from me being in a tag team, but I also want to remind people that I am an individual, that I did have a spark before I got to WWE.
I was so much of a spitfire. That same passion and that same drive is still there and I wanna show the world that I’m very capable on my own, and not just being, like, of this amazing tag team but, as an individual, I can shine on my own as well. So an ideal world, wherever the opportunity is, whether it’s Japan, AEW, Ring of Honor, NWA, I want to be able to show everyone that I’m very capable and that I can provide something that people really haven’t seen before and bring back my lucha strong style and stuff that really got away from me in WWE so, I mean, anywhere honestly.”
Hopefully Lane is given a chance to do something as she is talented. Plus, she has a unique look that stands out from most women in wrestling.