Sirena Linton is moving forward after WWE, but she is not pretending the release didn’t hurt.
While speaking on her YouTube channel, Linton opened up about the moment she got the call and admitted she is still processing everything. She said talent had already started getting nervous the night before, after WWE suddenly gave them the next day off.
“I feel like I’m still definitely processing this. But in a weird way, obviously, we knew that the releases were coming. I was literally out to dinner the night before with some of my co-workers when we got the message that randomly we had that next day off. Everybody started freaking out because we all know what that means.”
Even with that fear hanging over everyone, Linton said she still believed in herself because she knew she had done everything she could at the WWE Performance Center.
“I am just very confident in my abilities and I was and I am super confident still in what I have to offer and what I have to bring. And I know that I would always tell myself every day when I look in the mirror, I’ve done everything I could. I’ve done everything I can.”
That is why the actual call hit so hard. Linton said she saw Connecticut pop up on her phone and immediately knew something was off.
“When I got the call, I was more so just like I saw TKO or not even TKO, just Connecticut. And I just looked at it and I was like, ‘What the f***?’ That’s literally all I could think of. I was just like, ‘Okay, what the f***?’”
The part that made it worse was not getting an answer. Linton said WWE never told her why she was released, and even coaches she spoke with afterwards did not know either.
“After I got the call, you know, they don’t tell you why. And then, you know, I could talk to coaches after and I did and they told me, you know, they don’t even know why either.”
Linton said the biggest feelings were frustration and disappointment, not because she felt she failed, but because WWE had started to feel like home. Then she put the heartbreak into one line that pretty much explained the whole thing.
“I think I just felt frustration and then disappointment, not in myself, but disappointment in the fact that I poured my heart into this company and these people that I feel like just dropped me on a dime. I think that was the most disappointing because I truly feel like a lot of these people I met are and have become really close friends and family. This place started to really become my home and then all of a sudden I can’t go home anymore. So, I think that’s kind of just how it felt. It’s like disappointment of feelings aren’t mutual.”
Linton said she understands it may have been a budget decision or something made by someone who never met her. The problem is that not knowing the reason made everything harder to accept.
“At the same time, I do know that sometimes it is just a name on the paper. Sometimes it is just the company making budget cuts. Sometimes it’s a person that has never met me who maybe it’s TKO. At the end of the day, I don’t know the answers and I wish I did because I think it would make me feel a little bit better, to be honest, but I don’t.”
Still, Linton is not sitting still. She is officially taking bookings now, and her free agent announcement made it clear she is turning the page with a much sharper edge. She even uploaded a vignette where she walked through a forest with gasoline, a match, and a trash bag full of old ring gear before setting it on fire.
Linton admitted the little girl in her is heartbroken, but she still believes this is opening the door to something better.
“I think just like the little girl in me, a little bit of a heartbreak, but at the same time, I know that I’m excited for what else is opening up for me and knowing that there is going to be a place and a company and people that will water me the same way that I pour myself out into what I do.”
Sirena Linton may still be hurting from how her WWE run ended, but she is not letting that be the final image. She got dropped without answers, burned the old gear, opened herself up for bookings, and made it clear that wherever she lands next, she is bringing that fire with her.
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