After her release from WWE, Taya Valkyrie has worked for a variety of promotions including Impact Wrestling, Lucha Underground, AAA, MLW, and the NWA. She currently holds multiple championships and is eligible to work anywhere she wants as she is still a free agent.
Valkyrie is presently a triple champion across three promotions – Impact Knockouts World Tag Team Champion, AAA Reina de Reinas Champion, and MLW Women’s Featherweight Champion.
While speaking to SHAK Wrestling, Valkyrie reflected on her post-WWE career, noting that she is looking for a permanent “home” by the end of this year. Valkyrie has expressed interest in signing a full-time contract with one promotion.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On working for several different promotions after her WWE release: “I think because when you’re working for all of these promotions and stuff, you’re pulled in a million different directions. For me, it’s been what I’ve needed coming out of such a darker spot in my career, which was unfortunately my experience with WWE. I was ready to work. I only had six matches in 2021, six. I was ready to bump and feed, I was ready to be creative and cut a promo and do everything.”
On wanting to find a permanent home: “I think that now, I’m just ready to kind of focus my energy in one place as opposed to being pulled in all these different directions because I know what I bring to the table as a performer, as an athlete is very special, and I know my worth. I just really wanna work and make an impression and continue to build my legacy.
“For now, I’m still incredibly happy working absolutely everywhere. I’m not a person to sit at home and sit still and drink a tea and talk about the weather. I’ve never been like that, I get bored very easily, so this has really kept me on my toes and kept me inspired and motivated. We’ll see what happens this year. I’ll just keep moving along and being the Taya Valkyrie that everyone knows.”
