WWE icon Beth Phoenix has confirmed she has formally left the corporate.
The 43-year-old so-called Glamazon – who’s married to fellow Corridor of Famer Adam ‘Edge’ Copeland – first signed for the wrestling large again in 2004 and went onto make her Uncooked debut in 2006, adopted by a transfer to SmackDown in 2009.
She hasn’t appeared on display screen in over a yr, along with her closing match coming at Elimination Chamber in February 2023 when she teamed with Edge in opposition to Rhea Ripley and Finn Balor
After studies surfaced final month that she is now not underneath contract, the previous Ladies’s Champion has confirmed that’s the case.
‘I’m not,’ she replied when requested by Perception’s Chris Van Vliet if she was nonetheless with the corporate. ‘I’m at present a free agent.’
Whereas Beth spoke fondly of her profession with WWE, which she placed on maintain in 2012 to give attention to her household, she is happy to discover ‘different alternatives which have introduced themselves’.
‘I’ve an awesome relationship with WWE. I treasured my time there. I really feel like there’s extra and different alternatives which have introduced themselves and I really feel the motivation now to discover and discover what else is on the market and discover myself,’ she mentioned.
Beth, who was inducted into the WWE Corridor of Fame in 2017, first left the corporate in 2012, earlier than returning in numerous roles the yr after her induction, together with a stint on the NXT commentator workforce which began in 2019.
‘My relationship with WWE hasn’t modified. I’ve so many mates there and I recognize and benefit from the product as I at all times have. I like NXT,’ she added.
‘I’ve a particular place in my coronary heart for NXT and the system. Seeing folks come up and undergo that pleasure of creating themselves for the massive time. I like WWE. I at all times will.’
Trying to the long run, Beth refused to rule out wrestling once more, with AEW presumably an choice ever since her husband joined WWE’s rival in final yr.
She coyly mentioned: ‘I give the age-old cliche reply that everyone hates, by no means say by no means. However it actually simply depends upon the alternatives and what fits our household, that’s actually it.’
All through her profession, Beth turned a embellished champion, holding the Divas Title and changing into a three-time Ladies’s Champion.
She loved success in numerous storylines, together with the Divas of Doom tag workforce with fellow veteran Natalya, and the odd-couple Glamarella partnership with Santino Marella.
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