Billie Kay SHOOTS On WWE Creative

Former IIconic Billie Kay has claimed that WWE failed to understand the core appeal of the act.

Billie Kay
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The former IIconics detailed the frustration they felt towards their truncated WWE tenure on Busted Open Radio yesterday.

While expressing gratitude for the opportunity to talk - this is the level we're dealing with - Billie Kay was not convinced that creative had little appetite to push an act that they did not "get".

Neither Kay nor Peyton Royce could be confused with an elite-level in-ring talent. Royce clearly had bangers in her, provided she got in enough reps to shake off the sometimes glaring co-operation element. But the IIconics were unabashed second match comedy and generated a sizeable, devoted fanbase for their lame-on-purpose schtick and Kay's physical comedic timing and total willingness to show ass. Not like that, you perverts.

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Kay claimed the following:

"So, I know Vince enjoyed [our act], but I don’t think creative understood it, and they kind of wanted to [split us up]."

Another one for the "...but John Laurinaitis had it in for us" file, then, but regardless of who was to blame, that the IIconics were separated and subsequently released perhaps speaks to a way of doing things that will never change. Kay also buried the idea that the creative's first impulse was to sexualise her character. Surely, the heightened and often wacky world of Impact Wrestling is the ideal destination for the act.

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Time will tell.

 
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