Don’t go placing any bets on the possibility of seeing Kayla Braxton holding the microphone for AEW, or for any other wrestling promotion — for that matter. Having announced her looming departure from WWE following the June 21 episode of SmackDown, her final show set for Madison Square Garden on June 28, the longtime backstage talent is eyeing other ventures.
And none of those, according to her, involve wrestling.
SEE FULL GOODBYE LETTER FROM KAYLA BRAXTON HERE.
“The support from you guys has been overwhelming,” the 33-year-old wrote in a social media post. “I am so thankful for you. But I did wanna make one thing clear as I enter my final week in WWE: if I wanted to keep working in wrestling, I wouldn’t be walking away from the largest wrestling company in the world.
“Nice try, rumor weeds!”
That is a fair point, though the counterargument is also just as fair: even Hulk Hogan left for WCW.
That is to say there’s not only a laundry list of talent, from legendary ringside announcers — e.g., Bobby Heenan, and Jim Ross is in AEW as we speak — to wrestlers to front office personnel) who have taken their talents away from the WWE and to a rival brand, but plenty of the names are some who swore they’d never.
But, for Braxton, it’s simply not in the cards.
At least not as long as her deck continues to look as promising as it likely does right now.
