Former WWE Star Leilani Kai Loves The Women Of NXT

At the height of her WWE career in the 1980s, Kai enjoyed one reign as WWE Women’s Champion and two as a tag team champion alongside Judy Martin as The Glamour Girls. From today’s landscape, Kai wishes she could have wrestled a number of current and former titleholders.

“Chelsea Green, Nattie Neidhart, Rhea Ripley, and IYO [SKY],” Kai said when asked to identify which current WWE roster members she’d want to work with. “I think IYO is probably the best worker today for women’s [wrestlers]. I love her work. I think she’s doing real good. I think she’s the best wrestler at the moment. They’re all good.”

Natalya, a near 19-year veteran with WWE, most recently appeared in a vignette intensely training with new Women’s Intercontinental Champion Maxxine Dupri. Meanwhile, Chelsea Green is now a two-time Women’s United States Champion after defeating Giulia on “WWE SmackDown” last month. Rhea Ripley and IYO SKY, both former Women’s World Champions, expressed interest in pursuing women’s tag team gold coming off of their win in the 2025 Women’s WarGames match.

According to Kai, her main dream right now is to become a mentor at the WWE Performance Center, specifically with the aim of shaping WWE’s next generation of women. “That’s like my last part of my life, I want to be a coach and teach the knowledge that I learned through the years,” she said. “Even though they work a lot better now than I did when I was in my prime, their work is so good. I just love them all.”

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