De Lander adds that she’s in no rush to get back to the company.
The duo of Matt Cardona and Steph De Lander were paired together on the independent scene for the greater half of 2023. Their partnership began when Cardona approached her during an Australia tour about being his heater.
Throughout their time together, they’ve appeared for GCW, DDT Pro-Wrestling and a plethora of independent promotions. De Lander was a guest on Insight with Chris Van Vliet and shared that she’s garnered new interest from ‘WWE and elsewhere’ because of her act with Cardona.
After De Lander, the former ‘Persia Pirotta’ was released from WWE in 2022, the first thing she did was text WWE P.C. head trainer Matt Bloom to ask how does she go about getting her job back. It became an ‘unhealthy obsession’ for her to get back to the company which she eventually ridded of to move forward.
Yeah, I mean I think that’s definitely the end goal (WWE looking at what her & Matt Cardona are doing and thinking they should bring her back) but it’s not like a, I’m rushing to get there and I think, again, when I had that mentality switch, that’s when things started coming together for me too because when I got released, the first thing I did was texted Matt Bloom. I said, ‘How do I get my job back?’ And I go to another friend, I said, ‘What do I need to do?’ And I spent the next couple of weeks, ‘What’s going on? How do we undo this?’ And I would dream about it all the time and it was this unhealthy obsession with all I wanna do is get back there and then once I kind of let go of that and I made peace with what I was doing and I realized, if I do the indies begrudgingly and I do it dragging my feet and I do it not really enjoying it, always looking to the next thing, I’m not gonna have fun and I’m not gonna put out my best work. So I kind of had to pack up that WWE box and put it away and really focus on what I was doing and then have the faith and know that if I do what I need to do and work really hard and I commit fully to this, the end result will be I’ll be getting new interest from WWE and from elsewhere which I have because of how hot our act is.
De Lander and Cardona are scheduled for GCW ‘Feel No Ways’ on February 4th.
If the quote in this article is used, please credit Insight with Chris Van Vliet with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcription.
