Since she Trinity Fatu (formerly Naomi in WWE) walked out of WWE Raw with Mercedes Mone (Formerly Sasha Banks) months ago, rumors have swirled about why she left and where would she go.
Last weekend in Chicago (April 28 to April 30), Trinity debuted at Impact Wrestling’s TV tapings and she’ll appear on tonight’s (May 4) episode of IMPACT!.
Trinity Fatu Left WWE Due to the “Way I was Talked to and Handled”
Her debut made headlines as Mercedes Mone was in the crowd to show her support and CM Punk was also there at one point, but through it all it remained her day.
In the WWE, she came across as someone I wanted to like and did, but it felt like there was a disconnect of some sort.
While that could easily be Vince McMahon’s bookings as his history of treating the women’s division more as a distraction or cheap ratings grab has been well documented, we’ll finally get to see the real Trinity in action.
Impact Wrestling is one of the best around at working with their talent to bring out their best talents creatively and physically, so this should be fun to watch unfold.
Speaking out
Trinity appeared on a recent episode of Busted Open Radio and she talked about her Impact Wrestling debut and why she left the WWE.
Special thanks to Wrestlingnews.co for the transcript.
“This last year of my life has been life-changing in all the right ways. I’m here, I’m here.
“I chose and wanted to be at Impact. The doors are open for me everywhere, literally everywhere but I truly feel like Impact is the best choice for me at this point in my life right now with what I want to do and to just be able to work with the talent there I feel that is where I’ll be happiest and most utilized and really get to grow in the ways that I feel that I need to right now on this wrestling journey. Had all of this stuff never happened, there’s no way that I would have took that leap but the situation kind of forced me to figure it out. That’s what I meant when I said everything was a blessing in disguise because I was really going through a lot. I felt very stagnant and I wasn’t happy. Ultimately, I left that day because of the way I was talked to and handled. Everything kind of just broke me that day. It had nothing to do with anything else, anybody else. That was just it. I had to. To go through all the backlash and the negativity and the lies and the rumors and then to also kind of just feel lost, it broke me. It was probably the lowest I’ve ever felt in my life. But going through that made me reset and face it head on and figure out how to learn from this experience and grow from it [and] just find myself again in all of it. I’m extremely happy now and really thankful for this opportunity to show that you haven’t seen me at my best yet.”
She also revealed that she’s been working the last year with an injured shoulder and considered retiring.
“I also had, what people don’t know, I worked with a torn labrum for over a year. I kept wrestling, I didn’t talk about it [and] I didn’t say anything because you know, you don’t want to look weak. You don’t want to look like there’s a problem, you don’t want to be taken off TV, none of that. I wanted to keep working. So I continued to work with a shoulder injury and that was also affecting me, it didn’t feel good. So when I got the time off, the first thing I did was go get my shoulder fixed, had shoulder surgery so months off like that not being able to work, having all of it gone, at one point I was like I’m done, like I don’t even think I would probably wrestle again. Just working through it all with myself mentally and having a great support system and seeing the fans still like [say] ‘we want you back, we need to see you, how you doing.’ The support and my family, I got back to where I needed to be. Got through the injury, got through the surgery…I had surgery, I had shoulder surgery. I had a torn labrum. So yea all of that was just a lot mentally and then also being just off the road after that’s all I’ve known for the last 13-14 years…then all of a sudden just sitting home alone by myself in all of it to sort through myself. It was a lot. I feel that it’s made me stronger, better mentally, and physically I feel great. Just having that time to really miss wrestling and really miss the business and really miss the job, I was like ‘oh no, this ain’t it, I can’t go out like this, we have to run this back one more time.’ It was probably the scariest time of my life just being unsure of myself, my future, the first time I’ve been unemployed since I was like 16 years old. It’s made me better and want to go after this job and career even harder.”
She’s overcome a lot and is now ready for the next chapter of her career to begin. She also talked about the people working at Impact Wrestling and how they work together like a family and that they were supportive and welcoming to her.
It sounds like a great start, and she’s going to start working to achieve her goal of winning the Knockouts Championship after working her way up the ladder to get there.
We wish her the best of luck and look forward to seeing her in the Impact Zone.
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