Ex-WWE Star Calls NXT 2.0 "Most Confusing Experience" Of Her Life

Former WWE female says she didn't dig Vince McMahon's bold NXT 2.0 change.

by Jamie Kennedy
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Former WWE wrestler Taya Valkyrie, who worked in the promotion as Franky Monet, has described a change from NXT to NXT 2.0 as "weird".

Valkyrie told Chris Van Vliet's 'Insight' show that WWE's sudden switch was the "most confusing experience of [her] life". It's still something she can't wrap her head around despite leaving the company on 4 November 2021 - Taya was one of many to get released due to "budget cuts".

She was having a tough time understanding what bosses wanted from the revamped show anyway. Valkyrie looked at the chaos happening around her in NXT and asked, "What is going on?". It seemed like WWE chiefs were changing their minds about the brand every single week, and Taya didn't like it one bit.

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Summing it up, the one-time Monet said that she was left feeling "anxious" and like she was "holding [her] breath" week-to-week. It never seemed like Vince McMahon had a set plan for NXT 2.0, and that meant everybody there was walking on eggshells.

Eventually, she came to this conclusion: "You can't make sense of something that makes no sense".

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