Former WWE star comments on SmackDown debut plans being canceled shortly before event

In October of 2022, Zelina Vega returned to WWE television with Legado del Fantasma as a replacement for Elektra Lopez. Lopez eventually reunited with the group in January of 2024.

Lopez, who was released from WWE in February of 2025, spoke with Muscle Memory and commented on what happened with her initial main roster plans…

“We were told, after Santos had his final match with Tony D’Angelo, we were all told as a group that we were all going up to the main roster. That was in, I think, like August. So for those few months, we were just waiting to get the call to find out when we were going to officially be going up and what brand we would be on.”

“We got a call on a Wednesday that all of us are going to be going up onto the SmackDown debuting that Friday. I got all my travel everything that Thursday, it was about three hours before my flight was taking off. I was checked in and everything. And I get a phone call from somebody not going to name names, and they told me that, unfortunately, I wasn’t going to be going up with the boys. So there was no real explanation. And it was months of me thinking I was going up with them, up into the point of literally, the flight to leave to go to the city.” (quotes courtesy of WrestlingNews.co)