WWE Raw star and a former WWE NXT Women’s champion Iyo Sky who is also a former NXT Women’s Tag Team Champion recently talked about her long absence from WWE recently and revealed why she remained out of action. She also talked about the new ring name she received on the main roster and discussed the idea about it.
Iyo Sky went by the name of Io Shirai in the WWE NXT and she had been extremely popular in the development territory of WWE. She won the WWE NXT Women’s Championship one time and the Tag Team Championship one time. Im the NXT she had been mostly treated as a babyface and she was quite popular.
Iyo Sky Reveals Why She Remained Out Of Action
But she was late go of WWE last year as everybody understood it was the Just another case of the budget cut issue of WWE due to post covid-19 pandemic situation. She did not work in any other promotion after her release from WWE and there were rumours of her going back Japan. But at SummerSlam of this year, she surprised everyone after she made her return to WWE and made her main roster debut.
She came out as a faction member led by Bayley along with Dakota Kai who also got released recently. Since making their return, they had been pretty impactful on Monday Night RAW. They are mostly working as a heel stable and there one of the biggest attractions of the women’s division of WWE right now. Together they are famously known as the Damage CTRL. After coming to the main roster Io Shirai got her name changed, and now she is Iyo Sky. We hope she has a great future lying ahead of herself in WWE.
Iyo Sky who is also a former NXT Women’s Tag Team Champion recently spoke to Tokyo Sports where she talked about her long absence from WWE recently and revealed why she remained out of action. She also talked about the new ring name she received on the main roster and discussed the idea about it. She said;
“When I flew in a moonsault outside the ring against Kay Lee Ray, I hit my foot on the announcer’s table and broke my right ankle and had to have surgery. I was referred to a ‘master ankle surgeon’ in Alabama, who is a WWE official.
“Now I have one bolt in to hold the bone in place. I was unable to put any weight on my right leg for about a month, and I had to use a crutch and a wheelchair. It took me about three months to be able to put my full weight on it.
“I think the image of the previous ‘Shirai’ can be conveyed in kanji to Japanese people, but that is not the case in the United States. I think it is a good name because the ‘SKY’ in it conveys the image.
“The first letter of ‘Io’ was capitalized and the second letter was lower-case ‘o’. So it looked like a lowercase L and O (lo), or like a number, and some people misread it. Now it’s all capitalized ‘IYO,’ which I think makes it easier to understand.”
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