Summary

Scarlett says WWE chose not to move forward with the luchadora-style character she had been building before joining the company, and she believes the timing had a lot to do with it.

While speaking with D-Von Dudley alongside Killer Kross, Scarlett said she came into WWE with a strong idea of how the system worked because friends inside the company had kept her informed for years. Even with that background, she expected to get a real chance to wrestle on her own because the character work she had been doing beforehand had connected in a major way.

Kross backed that up, pointing to the amount of online traffic and attention Scarlett's clips generated. Scarlett also said WWE never wanted to lean into that version of her presentation once she arrived.

Scarlett's view of WWE's direction

Scarlett said the company's broader presentation of the women's division did not line up with the kind of heel act she wanted to play. In her view, WWE was centered on the Women's Evolution branding, while her persona was built as a throwback character meant to provoke a reaction.

That helps explain why Scarlett never got the kind of separate in-ring lane she expected. If WWE saw that persona as working against the image it wanted for the division at the time, the easier fit was keeping her attached to Kross rather than building her as a singles act with that same edge.

Quotes

Scarlett and Killer Kross on the missed character fit

**Kross:** "At times, yes, and at times, no. What about you?"

**Scarlett:** "A lot of it, yes. I had a lot of friends that were producers and wrestlers that came in and out of there. I rode in the car with a lot of people from Ring of Honor. We would keep in touch afterwards, so they would tell me what was going on for years. I started Ring of Honor in 2012, so when people were starting to get signed, they would kind of relay back what's going on. So I knew what to expect, but I did think that I was going to get a shot to wrestle on my own, just because the character I was doing right before that was very over."

**Kross:** "It was huge. I'm gonna say it, because she won't say it that way, it was huge. The viewership that it was getting online with her clips and the viewership converts to monetization, she was making so much money for companies on the back end of their socials, people don't even realize."

**Scarlett:** "I'm still the highest-viewed luchadora on AAA to this day."

**Kross:** "Millions upon millions of views. Like for people who don't have a point of reference, this is with a regular YouTube deal. If you were to get a million views on YouTube and your account is verified, that's $10,000 that goes into the account. So she had millions of views. She was watched all over Latin America."

**Scarlett:** "They didn't want to run with it."

**Kross:** "They didn't want to run with it, which is very strange. Even to this day, I don't know why."

**Scarlett:** "I think they were pushing the women's revolution in the way they were, and my character was the exact opposite of that. It was a throwback. It was a parody of bringing sexy back to wrestling. Because all the girls are trying to be serious. I'm like, 'No, no. Let's just be a hot chick. Like, bring back bra and panties matches.' No one was doing that at the time. No one had their asses out. It pissed a lot of people off, including women in the business. But it's funny, because now look it was a great heel character."

**Kross:** "She was working as a heel, and she worked as a diva. No one was really doing it, so it worked."

**Scarlett:** "But it was very much the opposite of what they were pushing. I remember they were like, 'Women's Evolution.' I'm like, 'Yeah, bra and panties match.'"

**Kross:** "They're like, 'Are you sure? This is what you wanna do?'"

**Scarlett:** "I'm like, it's pissing people off. It's great."

**Kross:** "For her, it was about at the time, owning her sexuality rather than being told you're not going to be sexual. That actually was sort of like... I don't know, how would you put it? Is that fair to say?"

**Scarlett:** "It's equivalent. Telling a woman to take her clothes off is equivalent to saying cover up, basically. Just let me do what the hell I wanna do. It's just as bad. It's a different form of objectification."

What Scarlett's comments say about that WWE era

Scarlett's explanation frames her WWE run as a case of timing as much as talent. She was describing a character built to draw heat through a deliberate throwback style, while WWE was publicly positioning its women's division around a very different identity. That does not answer every creative question from that period, but it does give a clearer reason why her pre-WWE presentation never became a full part of her run there.

Sources

Scarlett and Killer Kross while speaking with D-Von Dudley