Shotzi Blackheart began his career at WWE in 2019 After standing out in the independent circuit. He first passed through NXT, where he was champion of couples with Ember Moon (Athena), and eventually reached the main cast, although without ever finding a place in the relevant plans, largely to a career full of injury. In fact, last year he returned to NXT and a few months ago reported that the company was not going to renew the contract, which is why he ended up becoming a free agent.
► Shotzi was already preparing for the WWE departure
As we had aimed, Shotzi spent a while in NXT doing team with Gigi Dolin (Priscilla Kelly) and Tatum Paxley, and during an interview in «The Ariel Helwani Show» He reported how his time was there, Highlighting that he already had the impression that his contract was not going to be renewed.
“I would never be supposed to stay in NXT, they told me something like: 'Ok, we will give you two months in NXT and we will bring you back to SmackDown.' So I had very hopeful to get something on SmackDown. Week after week, they told me: 'Oh, let's delay it. Let's delay it. ' And then … it was not even, more or less, in Wrestlemania, that I thought: 'Oh … maybe they don't renew my contract'.
«Great things are coming, so I have to keep throwing, I have to continue exposing me even if it doesn't appear on television. But then, a part of me thought: 'Well, I need to prepare for this because my contract is going to end and I don't have those 90 days to solve my problems' ».
“In fact, I was sitting in my room, without television, without music, complicating my career a bit… I had just launched that great promotion, as if I called the WWE to call me. So, I don't know, I was simply assimilating it. “
«He probably never knows why they fired me, but wwe owes me nothingthat's the world of entertainment, right? They simply did not consider me a fortune, and nothing happens; I can accept it. Well, now I can go out and do what I love, to every machine! No one is going to force me, I take care of my schedule, I can work every weekend if I want.
