Story bySaraya looking over her shoulder - Paul Archuleta/Getty ImagesElla JayFri, January 23, 2026 at 5:51 PM UTC·2 min readA Throwback Thursday elicited a wholesome social media encounter this week. Before she blossomed into "The Anti-Diva" in WWE, Saraya ruled the independent wrestling scene with her side swept bangs and thick eyeliner as "Emo Raya," as she described it on X on Thursday. According to Priscilla Kelly (formerly known as Gigi Dolin in WWE), it was this exact look that initially drew her to Saraya, before she even stepped into the ring herself. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement"FYI. Before I started training to wrestle around 15 ish I watched matches of you in this era because you were the only girl that looked like me at the time (I was a full blown scene kid)," Kelly wrote in response to Saraya's pair of throwback photos.