Chelsea Green "Totally Shocked" By WWE Release
Released by WWE last week, Chelsea Green didn't see it coming...
Chelsea Green has revealed that she was "totally shocked" by her WWE release last week, doing so in a new interview with Fightful.
Speaking with Sean Ross Sapp, Green said that while her release caught her by surprise, she at least understood the company's decision:-
“I actually was totally shocked. Not going to lie, I was totally shocked. I understand it. I wasn’t used and of course when I was used then I broke my arm. So I was definitely shocked, and in previous years when they have done the releases I was expecting it more throughout those releases. I was kind of ready last year and times before, but this time I was very shocked because I know my potential in the company and I know what I bring to the table, which is something different; character work and acting skills and promo abilities and that’s something that I know I will thrive at when I’m able to show that."
Green added that even though it was a surprise, she was at least given a degree of prior warning:-
"Thankfully I was given a little bit of a heads up, a little warning, ‘Hey they are cutting people,’ so I was able to mentally prepare myself just in case because I will say, if I hadn’t have got that text letting me know, I would have thought that that phone call was for my debut and that would have been embarrassing. I am so thankful that I was forewarned because, wow, I was ready to debut, you know?”
Chelsea was one of 10 wrestlers cut loose by WWE last Thursday, with the likes of Samoa Joe, The IIconics, and Mickie James also among the group. She announced over the weekend that she is already taking bookings:-
Advertisement— CHELSEA GREEN (@ImChelseaGreen) April 17, 2021
Wrestlers released by WWE last week are bound to a standard 90-day non-compete clause preventing them from signing elsewhere prior to 14 July 2021.