Months after she shaved her signature green hair, Shotzi headed into the 2023 Survivor Series: WarGames event with Charlotte Flair, Bianca Belair, and Becky Lynch by her side. Standing across from her were the members of Damage CTRL, whom she vowed to unleash a frenzy of madness on. Unfortunately for Shotzi, the WWE Universe never got to see her carry out that promise, which would have also been paired with a more erratic character.

“I wanted to change up my character at that point,” Shotzi said. “I wanted to be like a complete psycho. Bayley cut my hair. I shaved my head. I just lost it, and [WWE] were immediately like ‘No. No more of that. We want you to be real.’ And then I was like ‘Oh, I thought this was going in a completely different direction.’ They were not into it at all.

“I was doing all that stuff with Bayley beforehand, like laughing maniacally, chasing her around with [hair] clippers. I thought we were on the same page,” she continued. “I thought my character was going into a more psychotic route. Then I cut that [promo] and that’s why you kind of see me do that and then it never comes back because they were just like ‘No, we don’t want that for your character. We want you to just be yourself.'”

Despite scaling back her in-ring character, Shotzi found herself on the winning side in Women’s WarGames as Lynch pinned Bayley for the team victory. The following month, she received an opportunity to unload Christmas-themed chaos on Damage CTRL, specifically in a Holiday Havoc, eight-woman tag on “WWE SmackDown.”

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