TNA star Dani Luna recently commented on her time in WWE. Luna was released from her WWE contract in August 2022 after a two-and-a-half-year stint as part of the NXT UK brand. She was one of many names cut at the time, including Mark Andrews and Flash Morgan Webster.
The following year, Luna began working for TNA and eventually signed a contract with the company. Speaking with the I Love Wrestling Podcast, Luna was honest about her WWE run, admitting that she wasn’t ready for the opportunity, having been signed at just 19 years old.
“No, I don’t necessarily think I was ready. I think I was physically capable enough, and ability-wise, I think I was ready. But ultimately, I was very much still a child and that’s such a big scary world to be thrown into, suddenly Shawn Michaels is my boss. It’s such a crazy thing to go through at that age.”
Luna continued, describing herself as “passive” at the time and noting that her release ultimately helped her find her identity as a performer. “I think more so that I was just kind of passive, you know? I’d go to training, I’d do what I was asked, I was very easy to work with, but I feel like I didn’t necessarily have anything about me yet because I was still a very blank slate of a wrestler.
Being there kind of helped build me up to become the Dani Luna I am today. I feel like leaving WWE and having some time on the indies to grow as well really created the wrestler that I actually am today and somebody that very much believes in what I put out there and what I present to the world that I now get to show on TNA every week.”
“I feel like I wouldn’t be the wrestler I am without all these things happening, and even [though] it feels terrible at the time, to be released from WWE, I knew that it was going to turn me into something better and something more valuable, which I feel like I am now.”
After a dominant run as TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Champion alongside Jody Threat as the team “Spitfire,” Luna’s tag team was forced to disband in May 2025. She has since undergone a character change, turning heel in August by attacking Indi Hartwell and her former partner, Jody Threat.
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