Podcasts have been one of the best places to hear what ex-WWE wrestlers have to say. We have heard a lot of wrestlers shoot on these podcasts. One of the main podcasts we see this on is Jericho’s podcast; Talk Is Jericho. Lana recently appeared on Talk Is Jericho and shot hard on the WWE and her experiences.
What Lana had to say:
“At the beginning of the year, I really wanted to take my family on a family vacation. I wanted to get us a house and take us to the Caribbean. I wasn’t working out, so let me rent a house on the beach in St. Pete so I will be where work is.
I don’t have to travel as much because I’ve been travelling the entire year throughout the global pandemic, when a lot of people were just living in Florida, and I was travelling and living in a hotel room 250 days last year by myself. I didn’t have to but I wanted to give it my all. I didn’t want to get fired – I wanted to make sure I was an essential worker.
I know, from day one, that those future endeavours can come, so I was preparing for it. So I rented this house and decided to take my family on a family vacation here, and I could train a lot more.
I rented it for a month and two weeks in, I got a call from Johnny Ace. Crazy thing is I thought he was calling me about something completely different, because I was offered to do another television show. They went through the entire process with WWE, they approved it, and so I thought he was calling me about those details.
He says ‘I’m calling you about your 90 days’. I’m like ‘wait, what?’ I couldn’t even understand. He’s like ‘I’m calling you about your 90 days because you’re getting released’.
I was standing next to the pool like…my heart dropped. At the same time I felt really relieved, which was really weird because I didn’t expect to feel relieved. It was like a weight lifted off my shoulder. If someone would have told me that would happen, I would have been like ‘no way’ because I liked my job and I liked the people I worked with.
He says ‘Stay in touch. You’ve worked your ass off.’ I go ‘is there anything I did wrong?’ He says ‘No, you’ve worked your ass off. You’ve improved tremendously in the ring. Thank you for working hard. Stay close’.
I chuckled to myself because I’m glad it wasn’t Mark Carrano that called me, because I just see Johnny as this role. Mark kinda comes across like homies but like Ace is so corporate. He was like ‘budget cuts’ so I was like ‘okay, thank you for everything’.”
So I walk out and I was in the middle of texting Mandy – we were texting about other things – and I’m like ‘I just got released’. She was the first person I told. I called Nattie immediately. I couldn’t even talk to Miro yet. Nattie had the same reaction. It just sucked, but at the same time I felt really relieved, because I felt like I’d been waiting for this call.”
Lana next move…
After listening to the podcast, it looks like Lana is now looking to the future. However, these stories of mistreated wrestlers are coming out of the woodwork more and more through these podcasts. If you want to check out the full podcast, it’s available now and for all your news from released wrestlers, come here to Overtimer because we work overtime to give you your news on time.
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