In a recent interview with Busted Open Radio, current WWE NXT Tag Team Champions Isla Dawn and Alba Fyre revealed that they were completely unaware of a WWE main roster call-up in advance of the 2023 WWE Draft.

Fyre stated, “I’ve been saying it for days, I still don’t feel like it’s quite settled in yet, we had no idea, no idea that we were going to be drafted.”

Dawn stated, “As you could tell by our eyeballs going.”

Fyre followed that up stating, “But it means so much, we both worked really, really hard for this for a long time, and you jus know what it’s like getting things like this, you know you’re being appreciated and yeah, it just means the world.”

Dawn added, “The timing of it with Stand And Deliver being a month ago, and that was our second TV tag match, we’ve only been together a short time.”

The duo, who were drafted to WWE SmackDown and are scheduled to defend their WWE NXT Women’s Tag Team Championships against new WWE RAW duo Kayden Carter & Katana Chance, discussed their time in WWE NXT and why they will be sad to leave the brand.

Dawn stated, “I think on Friday, it just showed it, every single person there was just buzzing for each other, so you could feel the excitement when anyone was being announced, you could feel everybody just going ah, we’re so happy for each other to succeed, everybody wants the best for each other on the roster and genuinely, I’m devastated to be leaving here, because I’ve got my people that I came here with from NXT UK who are like family to me here, and then, I’ve made so many close relationships and close friendships and not being here every Tuesday is going to be weird.”

Fyre concluded, “She literally just said as well, before we started this call, that even though we don’t have to come into the Performance Center anymore, she thinks we’re still going to come into the Performance Center.”

The full interview is available at this link.