Pro wrestling champ Steph De Lander shares advice for recent wrestlers who departed WWE

ACW women's champion Steph De Lander shares advice to recent WWE wrestlers who departed company in Fox News Digital Interview.

Pro wrestling champion Steph De Lander may have said it best as several WWE wrestlers departed the company last week.

"Getting released from WWE was the best thing that happened to my career," she wrote on X. "It doesn’t have to be the end of the story!"

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Australian wrestler Steph De Lander poses before a match against Malaysian wrestler Nor Phoenix Diana in Puchong, Selangor, on Dec. 11, 2022. The match was organized by APAC Wrestling. (Arif Kartono/AFP)

De Lander has lived it. The Australian native emerged as a star for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) following her WWE departure in 2022 – where she won the TNA Digital Media Championship and had significant feuds with Matt Cardona and Sami Callihan.

Though she spent the last two years recovering from a serious neck injury, De Lander made her in-ring return last month at Awesome Championship Wrestling (ACW), where she defeated Indi Hartwell and J-Rod for the women’s championship.

She shared some advice for the recent WWE departures in an interview with Fox News Digital.

Steph De Lander returned to the ring at an Awesome Championship Wrestling event in March 2026. (Jay Adam Photography)

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"It’s such a different journey for everyone and you need to kind of go with the process of how it hits you because for some people it’s their ultimate dreams, for some people they were ready to leave, for some people, they were there for one year, they were there for 10 years," she said. "It’s so personal. It’s so unique. But my