Dakota Kai Names Her Dream Opponents Outside WWE
Dakota Kai has named three dream opponents outside of WWE.
In May last year, Dakota Kai was unfortunately released from her WWE deal less than three years after being brought back to the company in 2022. After becoming a free agent, the New Zealander was absent from the ring for almost an entire year, returning to face Kris Statlander at Pro Wrestling EVE’s Wrestle Queendom at the start of March. Now an active competitor again, the 37-year-old has looked ahead to some opponents she’d like to face in future.
Speaking to Chris Van Vliet on Insight, the former Dakota Kai, now known as Charlie, listed Willow Nightingale, Shotzi, and Steph De Lander as opponents she wants to wrestle.
“I would love to wrestle Willow Nightingale. I know she’s all over the place right now, but there’s a bunch. Obviously, I’d love to run it back with Shotzi too. And there’s a lot of new, newer girls coming up too, that I just want to be able to wrestle and, not show them the ropes, but help them get to a point where they can have more matches and things like that. So, yeah, I don’t know, it’s so weird. I’ve got a list on my notes app of girlies I want to wrestle. Steph DeLander, another one that I’d love to wrestle again. We kind of had some matches in NXT, but not many. But I would love a singles match with her too, because she’s another one that’s insanely strong and just, I love being able to, like, be rag-dolled around, kind of my thing. But yeah, I don’t know, just having fun with my opponents and just looking at that perspective.”
-Charlie
Charlie has already been able to tick one of these dream opponents off her list, with her second outing since returning to the ring being against Shotzi on April 16. That night, she came up short in a match for the HOG Women’s Championship, with the former WWE star still looking for her first win since coming back to the indies.
For now, whether she stands across the ring from either Steph De Lander or AEW’s Willow Nightingale in the near future remains to be seen.
Elsewhere in the interview, the revealed her release last year was ‘more of a shock’ than when she initially got cut in 2022. You can read more about that here.
As always, we’ll aim to provide any further updates on Charlie’s dream opponents as soon as we hear more.
