Steph De Lander comments on potentially crossing over to WWE.
The working relationship between WWE and TNA is currently the hottest thing in the wrestling business. Week after week, both promotions continue to make headlines by allowing their talent to appear in the other promotion. At TNA Slammiversary alone, three NXT performers (Charlie Dempsey, Tavion Heights, & Myles Borne) will wrestle The Rascalz (Wes Lee, Zachary Wentz, & Trey Miguel) in a six-man tag team match. Wentz and Miguel recently wrestled on the July 16 edition of WWE NXT.
While speaking to Women's Wrestling Talk for a new interview, Steph De Lander talked about WWE working with other promotions.
“I think it’s a cool time in wrestling because we’ve never seen this before, we’ve never seen WWE so openly cross promoting with other promotions in this way. We’ve had Jordynne Grace and Joe Hendry and The Rascalz on NXT, we had Tatum Paxley on TNA, we had AJ Styles and IYO just wrestle in Japan this past week. There’s so many moving parts for everyone. I don’t see a drawback, I don’t think it would be ignorant to say that there’s probably a part of TNA’s extreme success of selling out Slammiversary and how well they’re doing right now, I’m sure part of that could be this new buzz with the WWE crossovers. I think WWE is benefiting too by being able to take the biggest stars from TNA and use them on their show. I feel like it’s one of those things where it’s kind of like they scratch our back and we scratch theirs."
Lander went on to comment on possibly being interested in participating in the crossover.
"As far as whether or not I'd be interested in doing that too, it would all come down to circumstance. I feel like there are some interesting story beats that could be explored at some point and that’s really what I care about more than anything else at this point. I’m not really interested in having a cool match with whoever, I don’t really care about that. For me, it’s more like, who there do I have unfinished business with and there actually is a couple people that I do have unfinished business with in reality and in storyline. Whatever happens, if I were to show up in WWE, it would definitely be something worth keeping your eyes on for sure.”
Lander then went on to elaborate on some possible storylines for her in WWE/NXT.
“I think if you watched me in WWE, I was literally in the middle of a love storyline when I was released. I was dating Duke Hudson. One week I was on TV, the next week I wasn’t. I was in a situation where I have a boyfriend in NXT and I have a boyfriend in TNA. That in itself is interesting, you know? Also, I was tagging with my best friend Indi Hartwell. We were in the middle of a tag team. She’s still in WWE, I’m in TNA, I think there’s something interesting there. We’ll see what happens.”
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