Kay Lee Ray Credits Nia Jax For Being Locker Room Leader In WWE: “She Does Support A Lot Of The Girls”

Praise for Nia Jax by way of Kay Lee Ray.

For seven years of her career, Kay Lee Ray was signed to WWE. She underwent a name change during her time with the company and was called ‘Alba Fyre.’

In April 2026, her run with WWE came to an end when she was released. She looked back on memories from her collective time there as she was doing a virtual signing for K & S WrestleFest. Ray labeled Nia Jax as a locker room leader and said there were times when fellow wrestlers felt they could not speak up, so Jax either did it for them or encouraged them to use their voices.

“The first time I went into NXT, the time I worked Nia Jax. Dakota (Kai) worked her in her first match. I worked her later on that day in the second match, and I’m so nervous. First thing I’ve ever done with WWE, and it’s eventually our time to kind of chat over things and I was just like, ‘Okay, so what we doing?’ She just went, ‘I don’t know. You’re the vet. You tell me,’ and I was like, what? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,” Ray laughed. “I expected just to be told, go here and do this, do this, do this, and that was it but no, we got like way more than I thought. That was a great experience but, it’s mad now to think how experienced Nia is now. She is a locker room leader there and she does support a lot of the girls. Maybe sometimes we feel like we couldn’t speak up; she would always either get you to go say the right things or she just was always there to help.” It was mentioned that Jax has a bit of a bad rap and Ray replied, “Oh, she does. Maybe there’s that element of playing up to that rep as well… That’s what I would do.”

Jax was in action on the 7/24 Friday Night SmackDown and competed in a qualifying match for the Interim WWE Women’s Title Ladder match at SummerSlam.

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