Dakota Kai was among the WWE Superstars released last week, a move many considered surprising given her presence on Raw programming in recent months as part of the Damage CTRL faction.
According to Bryan Alvarez on Wrestling Observer Live, Damage CTRL as an active group may be done considering the release of Kai, IYO SKY is the Women’s World Champion and Asuka and Kairi Sane are currently sidelined.
“Dakota Kai was probably the biggest surprise, I would say. I don’t know what the story is there other than – and I don’t know if this is ‘official’ – but I was kind of told unofficially that Damage CTRL’s done. The group is done,” Alvarez reported.
He speculated on the fallout: “And that probably means that maybe Asuka and Kairi [Sane] might come back as a tag team, and IYO [SKY]’s obviously a big singles star, and maybe they just figured that Dakota, she’s not gonna be at the level of an IYO, doesn’t have a partner… so she got cut. That one is surprising.”
He added, “Asuka was injured. Kairi, I think, could return at any time. She was injured. Yeah, she’s jacked now. She’s training hard.”
