The wrestler formerly known as Tegan Nox has an interesting regarding why WWE decided to release her last year.

Nixon Newell opened up about her WWE departure and the backstage decisions that may have contributed to it during a recent chat with Chris Denker on Into The Danger Zone.

As we can see watching the product now, it’s very much [the] Diva era coming back," Newell said. "I just always felt like I was always on the chopping block even if I could wrestle. I was not as much of a personality or character for them.”

The former WWE Superstar said that her position on the roster felt tenuous. The Welsh wrestler was released by WWE in November along with several of her now-former colleagues allegedly due to budget cuts necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In their recent investors call, WWE reported record earnings of over a billion dollars for 2021, making it the company's most profitable year to date, so Newell isn't convinced by WWE's reasoning for the layoffs.

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I just didn’t fit in the demographic is my true belief. Nothing to do with budget cuts. I just didn’t fit the look or the idea of what they wanted for their female wrestlers,” she said.

Toxic Attraction in NXT

Last November, several sources reported that WWE was thinking about turning NXT 2.0 into a TV-14 brand in an effort to make the product edgier and different from its PG counterparts in Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown.

If you've been watching NXT recently, you'll have noticed that the product is slightly more risqué than it was prior to the brand's big revamp last year. The NXT Women's division is currently dominated by Toxic Attraction, a stable consisting of Gigi Dolin, Jacy Jayne, and Mandy Rose. Toxic Attraction's gimmick is that they're hot, and they know it. The trio's vignettes are usually a little saucy, although still fairly tame by Attitude Era standards.