Priscilla Kelly Details Why It Takes Longer For Some NXT Talents To Get WWE Main Roster Call-Up

The former WWE NXT talent discusses why it takes time for some talents to receive a call-up.

For the last several years, Priscilla Kelly was with WWE. Her time with the company came to an end when she was released in May.

Kelly was part of the NXT talent roster for those four years, but had her brushes with main roster talent and appeared on the main roster. She was never called up, and that was spoken about while she was on Ringsiders Wrestling. She explained why it takes time for some NXT talents to get the call-up.

“I know there’s people backstage that definitely felt like they should have been called up to the main roster a long time ago. But sometimes it’s not even based on if you, as a wrestler, are ready for the opportunity. Sometimes it’s just a matter of timing on the main roster; who can they use at this point, what kind of characters are they looking for right this second, and sometimes people get lucky and they fit that mold of what they’re looking for right there at that moment. Maxxine (Dupri) was a great example. She was in NXT for maybe a year, definitely less than two years, and that’s what they were looking for right then and there, and she got called up immediately. So sometimes it’s just a timing issue. It’s not even based on if people are ready, it’s just timing. That’s one of the things Hunter told me himself. When I went up to do Main Event one of the last times, I said, ‘Hey, what can I do to get up here? I wanna come to the main roster. What do I need to do? What do I need to improve on? What do I need to do to get here?’ And he said, straight from his mouth, ‘It’s just timing,’ and it really is. Everything is just timing.”

Kelly is now back on the independent scene. She also returned to Japan, where she competed for TJPW at their WRESTLE PRINCESS VI show.

If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Ringsiders Wrestling with an H/T to Fightful for the transcription.