Jaycee Jane has emerged as one of the most promising additions to the main roster, with her Fatal Influence stablemates Fallon Hanley and Laney Reed alongside her. All three are now champions. but looking back at the height of his NXT run, Jane admitted he still struggled with anxiety The weeks leading up to her NXT Women’s Championship win.
“Before I won the title, I actually thought I was going to be released,” he admitted During an interview with Denise Salcedo. “I was having panic attacks thinking it was over for me.” Winning the title has given her some momentum, but Jane added that she still feels like she’s in a do-or-die situation.
“Every time I’m on TV, I have to be 100%, I have to be on my game, I can’t have any slip ups,” he said. Jain then explained that his attitude and consistency ultimately impressed the higher-ups, who believed he could be placed in any position and still rule. “I think that’s what eventually got me to the main roster,” Jane said. “If I didn’t have that title or all those opportunities, I don’t think I would be on the main roster. I’d either still be in NXT or I wouldn’t be here at all.”
Jayne recalled that he was in NXT for four years before winning the title. Even though he “got hot” with Toxic Attraction, he ended up falling to the card. Despite this, he pointed out that he always had TV time as a supporting role before recalling his time with Chase U, where he believes he ended up as a wrestler because he no longer wanted to play a supporting role. “I wanted to be a champion, I wanted to be the main It Girl,” she said.
The dissolution of Toxic Attraction has disappointed Jaycee Jane
Before Fatal Influence was Toxic Attraction, the stable where Jacey Jane established herself in front of the WWE audience alongside former WWE stars Mandy Rose and Gigi Dolin.. However, Rose and Dollin were both parted ways with WWE until 2025, after the faction officially disbanded in 2023 when Jane turned on Dollin. According to Jane, the whole process left her with a feeling in her head and she was very disappointed with her booking.
“Shawn (Michaels) kind of made it really click for me,” he explained. Jane noted that WWE pushed back on his bids for more, and even though he was steadily improving, he got tired of waiting around and went straight to Shawn Michaels’ office himself and asked for a match to prove himself. “Like, what do you need from me, because clearly I’m not doing what you need, so what do you need?”
Michaels told Jane to stay consistent, so she kept asking for a match before getting booked in a non-title match against then-NXT Women’s Champion Stephanie Wacker. “They were very happy with it and I think the ball honestly started rolling from there,” he said, adding that his stint in TNA also proved his worth. “They started believing in me more and more and during the title reign, I don’t even think I should have held the title for long.”
In retrospect, Jane recognizes that her WWE run was a process and suggested that some people just don’t want to wait and evolve. However, he admitted that he too struggled with stagnation before deciding to change his outlook and pursue himself as a wrestler.
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