In a recent interview with Steve Fall of SEScoops, independent women’s wrestler Valentina Rossi discussed several topics, including her decision to not sign with the WOW promotion, where she appeared under the name of Adriana Gambino.

“They’re very like strict about the name thing, because I’m Adriana Gambino there, and I came up with the name, but they own it, so it’s like, it’s fine, I’ll just use a different name. I wasn’t at this last taping, because they did tape this month, but I did the taping before. They’re kind of exclusive, you can’t do other TV tapings if you’re with WOW, so I would have had to like give up NXT and AEW Dark, which I wasn’t ready to do yet, so I didn’t go back this past week and I was actually at AEW Dark during the WOW tapings.

I think they want people who are only going to wrestle for WOW, because they have been around for like 20 years and a lot of people don’t know that, because they’re like, they’re just starting yo get really well known and they pretty much did go on like a hiatus for a little bit and that’s probably just like the only reason why I was like, I just really can’t sign this contract, because what if you guys go on hiatus again and I’m under contract for however many years, but I know that something similar happened with IMPACT, I know that they were like using girls from IMPACT for a while when they were both on AXS and then, as of recently, they don’t use those people from IMPACT anymore. I think it was just like contract stuff, they want people who were like homegrown, so that they can say like, we train them here you know.”

The full interview is available at this link.