Taya Valkyrie Is Finished With Impact Wrestling
Record-breaking Impact Wrestling Knockouts Champion Taya Valkyrie is now a free agent.
Taya Valkyrie has concluded her business with Impact Wrestling, having finished up with the promotion after Saturday's Hard to Kill 2021 pay-per-view and last night's TV show.
PWInsider's Mike Johnson reports that Valkyrie's Impact contract has now expired after her initial two-year deal rolled over to a third in late 2019. She follows Ethan Page in leaving the company last week, with their respective exits forecasted by a Fightful Select report in November 2020 stating that the duo had worked their final set of television tapings.
Valkyrie lost to reigning Impact Knockouts Champion Deonna Purrazzo at Hard to Kill, with the match billed as a clash between the longest-reigning champion and the current one. Taya holds that first honour, having run with the belt for a total of 377 days after taking it from Tessa Blanchard in January 2019, eventually passing it on to Jordynne Grace. Thus, she leaves Impact as one of its most decorated women's wrestlers.
Taya was officially written out on last week's show. Outed as the person who shot John E. Bravo several weeks ago, she was subjected to jokes about going to the Jacksonville Penitentiary or Stamford Prison after being dragged away by security, hugging her friend, Rosemary, on the way out.