Zoey Serrano Owns WWE Promo Struggles: ‘I’d Probably Be in a Better Place’ If I Was Better

Zoey Serrano is taking a hard look at why her WWE run never exploded the way she wanted — and she’s putting some of the blame directly on herself.

While speaking to Ring the Belle, the former Zoey Stark admitted her promos weren’t getting the job done, and she believes being better on the microphone could have completely changed where she stood in WWE.

Serrano dropped the admission while looking back at her run alongside Trish Stratus and her program with Becky Lynch. When the interviewer brought up Serrano previously saying some of her promos during that stretch never really connected with fans, she didn’t argue for even a second.

“No, they definitely did not.”

Then came the real gut punch. When Serrano was asked why she thought things weren’t clicking, she first joked about whether she was still under WWE contract before admitting she believes her own promo work may have held her back.

“Am I still working there? Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. I think if my promos were better, I would be probably in a better place. And that’s okay. I just figure out what I need to work on, what I need to focus on.”

That’s a pretty brutal self-assessment, especially considering WWE had Serrano swimming with sharks almost immediately. She wasn’t cutting promos every week for years before getting thrown into the deep end — she was standing across from Becky Lynch and Trish Stratus with barely any live microphone experience under her belt. Serrano pointed that out herself, saying she had only gotten a tiny number of in-ring promo opportunities compared to two women who had already mastered that part of the business.

“Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, of course, my promos are going to suck compared to them. Like, they are masters and they know what they’re doing. They’ve been doing it for so long and they’ve had so many promos. I’ve only had one in NXT in-ring promo, two on main roster.”

That meant Serrano was basically learning on national television while trying to go toe-to-toe with one of WWE’s strongest talkers. There wasn’t much of a training-wheels period once the company put her into a major storyline. Serrano said sometimes that’s just how WWE works — you get thrown into the fire and either figure it out or you don’t.

“It’s crazy. But, you know, you get thrown to the wolves sometimes and really just throw you in and like, ‘All right, sink or swim. Let’s see what happens.’”

Serrano has been ripping the curtain back on that stretch of her career since leaving WWE. She previously admitted she lost herself during her WWE run because she became too worried about what management, creative and fans wanted instead of trusting herself. She has also spoken about delivering material during the Becky Lynch feud that didn’t feel natural to her, admitting she didn’t have enough confidence at the time to push back and tell WWE she wanted to say things differently.

That version of Serrano appears to be gone now. She returned to the Zoey Serrano name after her WWE departure and has made it clear that finding her own voice is a major part of what comes next.

Serrano isn’t rewriting history and pretending WWE was the only reason things didn’t work. She flat-out knows her promos needed work, she knows she was thrown into a brutal spot against some of WWE’s best talkers, and now she gets a chance to prove she learned from it instead of repeating the same mistakes.

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