Many of the big names from the past few years of WWE NXT have found themselves either being released, or leaving WWE of their own free will. One couple who both found themselves in mass releases was Mia Yim & Keith Lee. While Keith Lee quickly found his way to the roster of AEW, Mia Yim would instead head back to Impact Wrestling – where she previously competed as Jade. But why did she not follow her husband to AEW?
Mia Yim Wants To Remain Her Own Person, Not Just The Wife Of Keith Lee
Mia Yim would explain exactly that during a recent interview with Alistair McGeorge of Metro. Yim would have the following to say.
“Ever since we started dating, it was like, ‘I never wanted to take his moves,’ we never wanted to be a tag team, we wanted to be our own separate brands.Sometimes we’ll do mixed tags or whatever and do things together, but we didn’t wanna be known just for that. We established very early on that we were own brand, we didn’t have to always stay together.
I always get asked, ‘Why didn’t you go with Keith?’ It’s like, because I’m my own person and I wanna do what I wanna do, you know? So, as long as we support each other with whatever it is, we don’t always have to be together! Nothing bad to say about AEW but I’m just like, ‘Babe, that is your realm, go and kill it over there. That is your home.’ He was super supportive of me going back to IMPACT.”
Even during their time together in WWE NXT, they only united for a small program with Candice LeRae & Johnny Gargano – and otherwise just forged their own paths. Lee would of course win the NXT North American & NXT Championships, while Yim would compete in WarGames before being called up to the main roster as part of the ill-fated Retribution stable. She has since returned to Impact Wrestling, where she signed a six month contract.
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