Katana Chance on WWE exit: ‘I have more potential to show’

  • Ian Carey
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Kacy Catanzaro, formerly Katana Chance, spoke about her WWE departure and future plans during a recent appearance on the Lightweights Podcast.

Catanzaro and her longtime tag team partner Kayden Carter were part of WWE’s roster cuts on May 2. Her last match for the company was the tag team title number one contender battle royal on the April 11 SmackDown.

The 35-year-old had been with WWE for eight years, signing in 2017 after competing on seasons 5 through 9 of American Ninja Warrior. She says this is the first time in a long while she’s had to reflect on what she wants to do next.

“Growing up, I loved watching wrestling. I loved watching American Ninja Warrior. And now that I’ve done both of those in a certain aspect, I’m like, OK, well, am I done with that? Do I want to do more of either of those? That’s possible.”

“Do I want to do something different that I haven’t done yet? And it’s really a hard question.”

“Now that like the world is open, I’m not sure what that looks like yet, which is like exciting. It’s scary, but exciting.”

She was asked about the possibility of returning to American Ninja Warrior or wrestling on the independents.

“Those are both very good questions and my answer to both of them is it’s possible. Definitely possible. It’s definitely on my mind that I’m looking for. I just need to decide what my first step is going to be, if that makes sense.”

“I know that I have more potential in both of those avenues. I know that when it comes to American Ninja Warrior, when I did leave, it was for a good reason. But I know that there were more things I had wanted to do or more things I feel like I was capable of.”

“And when it comes to wrestling, I’m very grateful for my time there. And I also feel the same way where I know that there are things that I’m capable of and there is potential that I wasn’t able to show. So, that’s hard to walk away from, you know what I mean?”

“I feel like in both of those avenues, I feel that way where, OK, I know that this could be explored further and I know that I have the potential to do a lot more. So I just need to take the time to choose, like, what is that going to be? And I don’t know yet.”

Catanzaro’s full appearance on the Lightweights Podcast with Joe Vulpis is available here: