Taya Valkyrie is taking a forward-thinking approach to what’s next for her in the wrestling business.
AAA Reina de Reinas Champion Taya Valkyrie was a guest on Wednesday’s episode of Busted Open Radio and spoke about how she dealt with being released by WWE. Bully Ray asked if she still felt like she could have done something differently or if it was just not going to work out, and Taya said she blamed herself for a long time but now just shrugs it off and is focused on the positive things she has now.
“I really don’t know [if anything could have been done differently]. I think John [Hennigan/Morrison] said it best, when I was like, ‘I don’t understand!’ He’s like, ‘you can’t make sense out of something that makes no sense, it just is what it is.’ I did everything I was supposed to do and beyond, I tried to make everything work that I was handed, even if I didn’t sometimes agree on the creative or whatever it was, I got along with everybody, went to do my stuff every single day and it just didn’t work out. I blamed myself for a long time, and I didn’t even know what I was blaming myself for,” Taya explained, “but I was so disappointed that something that I worked so hard for didn’t work out, just like anybody would. It is what it is, it sucks, it was a really horrible experience for me, honestly, and very disappointing, but at the end of the day it was an experience.
“I accomplished something that I had set out to do twelve years ago, something that I wanted to do as a kid, and sometimes it doesn’t work out. It sucks, but rather than — and I had my moments of being super upset with myself and very… almost depressed and questioning my ability and all of this stuff, but now I’m just almost like [shrugging it off] ‘Ehh… It sucked.’ When people ask me how do you feel about [my] experience I go, ‘It sucked.’ [laughs] It’s just all I can say because I’ve moved on from that mentally and personally,” Taya stated. “I know that I have a very supportive group of people around me, all of these different wrestlers that I’ve come to wrestle again and work with, have just been so incredibly positive that I really feel like no matter what, I mean, I was destined to do it. Was I destined to be successful there? Obviously not, but it also gave me one more thing on my resume, one more thing I accomplished and I’m just looking to find another mountain to climb.”
Asked about her plans moving forward, Taya said she wants to keep getting new things under her belt and collect more championships, as well as have a wonderful career and be proud of picking herself back up and showing her worth. She also noted that she is now living in the moment, but also planning ahead for the things she wants for herself.
Taya Valkyrie will make her debut for the NWA at Alwayz Ready on June 11, and she’s also confirmed for an appearance at Garden State Pro Wrestling’s debut event on July 23.
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