Ex-WWE Star Felt "Held Back" Before Release (WWE News)

Former WWE star Kayden Carter, who's now wrestling as Lacey Lane, has said she can't wait to show the world what she's capable of outside the company's system - whether that be in "Japan, AEW, Ring Of Honor, NWA" or elsewhere. Further, Lane wants to "bring back [her] Lucha Strong style and stuff that really got away from [her] in WWE".

The one-time Women's Tag-Team Champion (alongside partner Katana Chance) never felt like she got the chance to show her chops properly in WWE. On that, she told Busted Open Radio: "When I got to WWE, I feel like I was just very held back in what I was able to do. I pitched ideas, I put myself out there, I tried new things and it just felt like if that wasn’t the direction they wanted. I kind of had to go with whatever they had prepared for us".

She's hopeful that'll change now she has the freedom to do whatever she pleases in the industry.

Carter/Lane was part of WWE's roster cuts on 2 May this year. She'd been with the promotion since 2018, showed promise on NXT and was eventually called up to the main crew in 2023. Creative's interest in pushing Carter and Chance fluctuated over the years, so she believes it's "a relief" to close that particular chapter of her career.

Ideally, Lane wants to regain the "spark" she had before reaching the market leader. Since departing WWE, she hasn't wrestled; her last match actually fell on the 11 April episode of SmackDown pre-release, and Carter only became an official free agent earlier this month.