10 Things WWE Fans Need To Know About Priscilla Kelly

8. She Competed In The Mae Young Classic

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For those of you who only get your WWE fix from the broadcasts of Raw, SmackDown and NXT, you'll likely have zero idea that Priscilla Kelly has actually competed under the WWE banner before. That coming as an entrant in the 2018 Mae Young Classic.

That second edition of WWE's all-female tournament was ultimately won by Toni Storm, although Kelly didn't get anywhere close to achieving anything quite like the success of Storm during that tourney.

Instead, the Gypsy Queen was eliminated in the very first round of that year's Mae Young Classic, losing in four minutes to the present-day IMPACT Wrestling Knockouts Champion Deonna Purrazzo. That was long before Purrazzo marked herself out as one of the very best women in the game right now, and back then she was mostly utilised as a pseudo enhancement talent on NXT programming.

Skip ahead just over two years, and here we are with Priscilla Kelly again getting to sample a tournament - this time in the form of the first ever Women's Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic. Again though, it was a losing effort for Priscilla, as she and Elayna Black/Cora Jade lost to the Way's Candice LeRae and Indi Hartwell.

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