On February 10, Elektra Lopez confirmed that she had been released by WWE.
Lopez had been on television as the manager for Legado del Fantasma (Santos Escobar, Angel, & Berto) before her release.
Speaking on the Fan's View podcast, Lopez recalled finding out she was released.
"I was super surprised because I was just on TV that Friday. It was out of nowhere. I was at TV on Friday and we had just gotten assigned a new writer. I was super excited. I had been pitching ideas for months. I was saying I wanted to be on live events and wanted to work with girls because I want to wrestle. I don't want to just manage. I don't mind managing, but I want to be able to do both because of how it was when I was in NXT, I was mostly managing them and I wanted it to be different because I wanted to wrestle. I can wrestle and when I tried out, I tried out as a wreslter, not as a manger. I can do both and have no problem doing that, but I also wanted to build a name for myself, not just be in the shadows of the boys.
"I was on TV that Friday. People were getting released while we were at work. 'Oh shit, maybe I dodged this bullet this round.' I get home and it was maybe 2:30 in the afternoon and I get a call, and they told me the news. No reason given. Nothing. Again, I'm not saying anything bad about anybody, I don't want that to be misconstrued, but I had worked so hard for this and I feel like I wasn't given a fair opportunity. If I were given an opportunity and I failed, I can understand it, but you didn't really give me an opportunity to show you what I can do when I'm more than just a manager. You brought me up to be in the role and put me in a box and then you cut me because it didn't work out. You didn't let me open that box and show you what I can do. I was very surprised. Got no explanation as to what the reason was. I was very shocked. It was a year to the day that I had gotten called up to the main roster."
Lopez is now going by Karissa Rivera on the independent scene.
She is set to wrestle at HOG Puerto Rican weekend on June 7th.
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