Saraya Loved Her Time At AEW, But ‘Wasn’t Too Happy’ With Her Character: I Kind Of Fell Out Of Love With Wrestling

Saraya lost some of her passion but is regaining it.

From 2022 until early 2025, Saraya was a member of All Elite Wrestling. She wrestled in a total of 27 matches for the company and became AEW Women’s World Champion.

Saraya spoke about her time in AEW while chatting with Freddie Prinze Jr. on the Wrestling with Freddie podcast. She shared that she fell out of love with wrestling a bit. She loved being at AEW, but was not too big on her character.

Saraya stated that she wants to return to wrestling, and if she does, it’ll be the best she’s ever been.

“I’m taking wrestling so seriously. I lost my passion for it for a second. I kind of fell out of love with it, and it was kind of making me miserable at one point. I feel like the company I was in — I loved being in AEW. I had so much fun. But, the character I was doing, I wasn’t too happy with and I wish I could have done certain matches and certain things and it didn’t come to be and it’s fine. It’s absolutely fine. That’s what was supposed to happen. But, yeah, I just kind of fell out of love with it and so now, I’m just like, ‘I need to start training again. I need to get my ass back into shape. I need to be the Paige that I was in NXT but better.’ I can do it at 33 still. I still got it. So I started training in January and I had told people I was gonna start doing that months ago and everyone thought I was just posting it for the Rumble. I was like, ‘No! I’ve been telling you guys. I’m training in January. I’m doing this.’ I do wanna come back to wrestling, I do wanna start getting in the swing of things again and if I was to come back, I’ll be better than you’ve ever seen me. I can promise you that.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Saraya addressed not being in the 2026 women’s Royal Rumble match.

If the quote in this article is used, please credit Wrestling with Freddie with an H/T to Fightful for the transcription.