One WWE star has blamed communication points for being launched in 2020.

Zelina Vega was launched from her WWE deal in 2020 as the corporate cracked down on its stars utilizing Twitch resulting in a number of having to desert the streaming platform. Vega was apparently reluctant to do the identical and so was let go, solely to return eight months later.

Chatting with Steve Fall of WrestlingNewsCo, Zelina Vega defined the way it was AEW’s Saraya that bought her concerned in streaming within the first place and he or she was very reluctant to take action at first:

“It was one thing I used to be so reluctant to do for the longest time. Saraya was attempting so onerous to get me into it, ‘you’d be good for it, you play video video games anyway, you may as effectively do it on Twitch and produce other like-minded individuals to speak to and play with.’ ‘Nah, it’s my house and I prefer to play video video games alone.’

“She’s like, ‘You’re going to love it. In the event you get previous the arrange half, you’re going to like it.’ After struggling by that, she was proper, and he or she normally is as a result of she is aware of me so effectively.”

Communication points led to Zelina Vega’s WWE launch

Zelina Vega then touched on how her streaming profession took off and the way an absence of communication between her and WWE on the time about her utilizing Twitch was what led to her launch in November 2020:

“It grew into this huge factor. I’m so large on being genuine, when you’re genuine, individuals are going to acknowledge that. You possibly can’t simply stick anyone in my place with a kitty headset and say, ‘blah blah blah about this episode’ and so they don’t know what they’re speaking about, as a result of they’ll see proper by that.

“That was one of many main issues that I instructed WWE initially. ‘I didn’t know this was going to explode as a lot because it did, however I really feel there may be an viewers that we’re lacking right here,’ particularly with every little thing going digital now, that is the place the youngsters are and the place we’re going to get them. There’s a strategy to mix the worlds.

“As soon as they sort of found out what I meant by that, that’s actually what was lacking, the communication there, as soon as we talked it out and found out, ‘that is how we will work collectively,’ that’s why I’m again and why I’m again on Twitch and every little thing labored out.

“It’s loopy how a dialog can change quite a lot of issues. I discover it humorous that it took a lot and now it’s develop into one thing like me and Xavier Woods simply offered an award on the Streamy’s.”

Zelina Vega returned to the corporate in July 2021 and has since joined the LWO with Joaquin Wilde, Cruz Del Toro, Santos Escobar, and Rey Mysterio.

A deal was reached within the spring of 2023 between WWE and Twitch which opened the door for stars of the corporate to return to the streaming platform.

h/t Fightful