Kay Lee Ray, fka WWE star Alba Fyre, says the company told her it would not be offering a new contract, an outcome she says she was already moving toward herself. She discussed her WWE exit and what’s next during an appearance on the Busted Open Podcast with Dave LaGreca and Bully Ray.
Ray explained that, with her contract approaching its end, she had been weighing whether to re-sign and wanted to give WWE the courtesy of a conversation. “I knew my contract was up,” she said, noting she raised it around WrestleMania. “Unfortunately I got the phone call the next week saying that they didn’t want to be offering me anything, so to me I was like, cool, this was the decision I was already heading towards anyway.” She said the timing, in the post-Mania window known for releases, was not a surprise. “It wasn’t a surprise to me… My contract was just up, and it fell at that unlucky time.”
Reflecting on her seven-plus years with the company, Ray was philosophical, but candid about wanting more. “The way it went at the end obviously wasn’t great, but in past few years I got to have fun with my friends, and I got paid well for it,” she said. “I wish I was given a chance to really show what I could have done on the main roster.”
Ray suggested she could have built more relationships and pushed harder for her own ideas. “I wish it had been on my ideas,” she said. “I just wish I could have brought a bit more of that, like killer instinct that I know I can portray to the main roster.” She said she was content filling the roles she was given, working alongside Piper Niven and Chelsea Green, but acknowledged her in-ring opportunities were scarce even as she appeared on TV weekly. “Time is very short, and it wasn’t increasing, it was just decreasing,” she said, describing how that fed her decision.
Ray also addressed the changes to her character on the main roster, saying the “spooky” presentation that worked in NXT did not seem to fit. “I kind of get the feeling that main roster is not any kind of spooky vibes right now,” she said, adding she always gave whatever character she was assigned “100%.”
Now a free agent, Ray said she is excited to explore the wider wrestling world, citing the freedom Matt Cardona and Shotzi have found outside WWE. She is set to wrestle in Italy for the first time and is in no rush to sign elsewhere. Asked for dream opponents, she rattled off names she has never faced, including Willow Nightingale, Mercedes Moné, Athena, and Japan’s Starlight Kid. “I just can’t wait to get in there and just see what story we can be, what magic we can make happen,” she said.
One bottled moment stood out from her run: a three-way with Piper Niven and Tegan Nox in the UK that she asked to be moved up a stacked card after speaking with Triple H. “We absolutely killed it, in my opinion,” she said. “It’s one of my favorite matches with the company.”
