Priscilla Kelly: Shotzi Blackheart, Tatum Paxley & I Were Being Told That We Were Potentially Going To WWE Main Roster After WrestleMania 41

There were main roster aspirations for the trio.

There’s an interview that Scott’s Scoop rolled out with Priscilla Kelly, formerly known as Gigi Dolin from her time with WWE.

Kelly’s time with the sports entertainment company came to an end when she was part of the talent releases in May 2025. The backend of her run there saw her in a trio with Tatum Paxley and Shotzi Blackheart. Kelly expressed that that was the happiest she’d ever been during her WWE run.

She believed that they would be heading to the main roster together. Kelly added that she was riding a high that came crashing down when she was let go.

“So, I wanted to work with Shotzi (Blackheart) before I got injured, and she got injured at the same time. So for whatever reason, the universe did not want it happening right then. But we wanted to work together before both of us were injured the year prior, and when we both got cleared, we were like, ‘Hey, we really wanna work together. We have ideas,’ and then, they ended up putting Tatum (Paxley) with us and it just worked and I will say that the stuff that I did with Shotzi and Tatum was the happiest I ever was in NXT. It was the most excited, happy, the most myself that I was in my entire time working for WWE. Shotzi’s like my best friend, and Tatum quickly became a very good friend of mine and we all just had great chemistry together, we had a great look. I felt like we were something so unique, and not just unique, we were so genuine about who we were. We weren’t playing a role of a character or a look or an aesthetic. We were what we portrayed, and I don’t know what happened to be honest. We started hot and we were having high-tier matches and… I really just don’t know. It’s just sometimes, it’s one of those things where, first of all, it’s always out of our hands as wrestlers. Unless you’re somebody that’s very, very high up on the totem pole, it’s always out of our hands creatively, and at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter how good a thing you have going or how bad of a thing you got going, it’s all depending on how you’re booked. Because you could be absolutely horrible, but if you’re booked like a star, people are gonna believe you’re a star and you could be the best thing in the world, but if you’re booked like sh*t, then people are just gonna believe that you’re sh*t. It’s all perception, and we tried to just kind of make the most of whatever we were given… We were on a very high note, right at the end. Me and Tatum — Shotzi came ringside with us — we were at Stand & Deliver, we won our Stand & Deliver match, we got a title match with Liv (Morgan) and Raquel (Rodriguez) for the following Tuesday. We were doing stuff at TNA. We were crushing it, and I was like, ‘This is it. We’re going to the main roster.’ There’s no way. We’re so undeniable as a group. I don’t know how anybody could see this and not think that it could be huge, and then I went from that high of Stand & Deliver, title match with Liv and Raquel, title match at TNA to, ‘Hey, WWE is terminating your contract.’ It’s very confusing. As us wrestlers, a lot of people think we have control over stuff. A lot of people think that we screwed up backstage. A lot of people have so much to say but the truth is, like, sometimes, it just is what it is. Sometimes it just happens, there’s nothing we can do about it but pick ourselves up and move on.”

Kelly shared that she, Blackheart, and Paxley were told that they might’ve been getting the main roster call-up after WrestleMania 41.

“We were projected and we were being told that we were potentially going to the main roster after ‘Mania. We were told that. So, to get released was a complete shock…”

Kelly and Blackheart are no longer with WWE. Blackheart’s contract was not renewed. Paxley is still part of WWE’s NXT brand, and she’s in The Culling faction with Shawn Spears, Izzi Dame, and Niko Vance.

If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Scott’s Scoop with an H/T to Fightful for the transcriptions.