Sarray gone from WWE

[Alexa]

I can’t believe the magical schoolgirl gimmick didn’t work out.

Anywhere else aside from WWE and some others, it would have been fine

 

[Chris]

Real recognize real

 

[Dale]

It was noted that the beginning of the end of Sarray’s WWE run actually came in early 2022 when many of her biggest supporters were let go from working behind-the-scenes in NXT. Sources within the brand said Sarray never factored into a consistent or major creative fashion after that, and by the spring of 2022, the writing was on the wall.

Current WWE Vice President of Global Talent Development William Regal was let go on January 5, 2022, when he was working NXT as the storyline General Manager and as WWE’s Director of Talent Development & Head of Global Recruiting, and that departure was seen as the turning point of Sarray’s run. Regal left AEW and returned to work for WWE in January of this year, but he’s been working with the main roster.

People who frequent the WWE Performance Center noted that Sarray hadn’t been around in “ages,” but no answers were given when people asked why she wasn’t around. It was widely accepted within WWE that the creative given to her was outright bad, an apparent reference to how, beginning in January 2022, Sarray’s character saw a reboot surrounding a medallion from her grandma. We’ve noted how that program never really clicked, and word came out this week that the original plan for the reboot changed quite a bit due to the NXT 2.0 launch.

Sarray reportedly took great pride in helping Tiffany Stratton along during their brief feud in the spring of 2022. Stratton defeated Sarray on the March 15 and April 19 NXT episodes, but then Sarray and Andre Chase defeated Stratton and Grayson Waller on the May 10 episode.

While there was a language barrier, there’s been no talk of issues in Sarray’s dealings with others in the company, and only positive things have been said about her from others at the WWE Performance Center.​

 

[Buffy]

A missed opportunity and I feel that WWE fumbled the ball on Sarray.

 

[Deezy]

Kept hearing about how great she was and only saw a nice running dropkick and was left with "so that's it?" another small Japanese girl who throws weak looking forearms and does one cool thing.

She'll go back to Stardom and people who enjoy her can keep doing that there. Win/win.

 

[Kairi HoHo]

Kept hearing about how great she was and only saw a nice running dropkick and was left with "so that's it?" another small Japanese girl who throws weak looking forearms and does one cool thing.

She'll go back to Stardom and people who enjoy her can keep doing that there. Win/win.

Love ya Deezy but clearly you've never seen any of our stuff outside of the WWE bubble especially in Sendai Girls she doesn't throw anything weak in my opinion.

 

[Comrade Khan]

Yeah shes a good worker wwe just didnt book her well, as they have no idea how to use japanese talent that werent megastars already before signing (nakamura, asuka, shirai)

 

[Comrade Khan]

humble too

 

[Alexa]

Also never forget, she got permission to use the STF a finisher by Masahiro Chono