Sonya Deville spent the better part of 2021 as an authority figure next to Adam Pearce, acting as an assistant manager who wasn't afraid to throw her power around.
She became an authority figure after losing a loser leaves WWE match to Mandy Rose at WWE SummerSlam 2020.
Speaking to Ariel Helwani on The Ariel Helwani Show, was asked if she missed wrestling in 2021.
"I missed wrestling, but I liked that role. I just wanted the role to have a little more depth and personality. I wanted her to be a little more puppeteering and manipulative and I was hoping the angle that I got into after the GM thing was something big and meaningful because I had so much heat. People hated me because I was abusing my power to an extent. I was really hoping the angle coming out of that role would propel me into that top of the card female," she said.
Asked why she thought WWE didn't push her higher on the card, Sonya replied, "People have said they dropped the ball creatively. I'm never one to blame creative because you are in control of your own destiny to an extent. I don't know. I don't think they were ready to put me there yet. I don't think they were ready to put me at the top of the card yet. There was such a good built in story there. I had been nagging (as a character), the stuff with Naomi and then Bianca [Belair]. It was so good. The heat was there, but then we didn't get the opportunity to have the big angle coming out of it."
Sonya returned to the ring in a full-time capacity in 2022.
Elsewhere during the interview, Sonya commented on her match against Mandy Rose at WWE SummerSlam 2020. You can find her full comments by clicking here.
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