Former WWE Women’s Tag champ Alba Fyre returned to being Kay Lee Ray when she made her return to the United Kingdom’s independent wrestling scene last week. Her appearance for Pro Wrestling Eve last Friday came a little more than a month after we learned Fyre/Ray was gone from WWE as part of its post-WrestleMania 42 roster cuts, which meant she wasn’t under one of the 90-day non-compete clauses that are standard in the company’s main roster contracts.
Moment after her Eve appearance, KLR explained to Daily Star she’s not under a non-compete because she was a “did not re-sign” not a “release”.:
“My contract was up. And I knew it was coming up, and I had the decision of whether I wanted to stay or not. I know some other people got fired and they have the 90 days clause, but because mines was just contract ending, that means I didn’t have the 90 days and I was able to come and do this. And do it as like kind of a surprise but it wasn’t really a surprise. But, yeah, really glad that it worked out this way.”
Ray also indicated that wasn’t because she was unhappy to have been used mostly as a tag wrestler during her run in the United States, or recently having been cast in a more comedic role alongside Chelsea Green:
“No, again, I’ve been singles for a long time. So it was good to get into some tag team stuff with Isla [Dawn]. We had a good feud as well. I think we worked really well together. Enjoyed the feud we had together, and then that came into the tag team stuff — and again, it’s just another character for me to play. I’m always going to try and do that to my best ability.
”Same with the Secret Hervice stuff. It wouldn’t have been my go-to, but I had a lot of fun doing that.”
In fact, it’s no hard feelings all the way around. The not-released 33-year-old Scottish spitfire is just excited to reintroduce herself in some old haunts:
“I had fun. Honestly, like, from start to end. I got the job that I wanted to, and I had fun while I was doing it with my friends. And now I get to come back and almost start again — yeah, fun.”