Price made herAll Elite Wrestling (AEW) debut on the November 6, 2020 episode ofAEW Dark in a match againstBig Swole, which she lost.[7] She made herAEW Dynamite debut on December 9, where she lost toAbadon.[8] She went on to have 21 matches in AEW from 2020 to 2021.[9] On December 15, 2021, it was announced she would no longer take independent bookings.
Schuessler appeared on the July 25, 2018 episode ofNXT under the ring name Tenilla Price, losing toLacey Evans.[3] On August 8, now back under the ring name Tesha Price, she lost toBritt Baker in adark match held during thesecond annual Mae Young Classic.[5] On the September 21, 2021 episode ofNXT, she appeared under the ring name Anna Scheer, losing toElektra Lopez.[1] She also appeared under the ring name Fallon Henley on the November 30 episode ofNXT, facedJoe Gacy in aintergender match, which ended in a no contest.[10] Throughout the remainder of late 2021 and into early 2022, Henley competed on205 Live andNXT 2.0 in losing efforts against the likes ofIvy Nile,Tiffany Stratton, andLash Legend, she would score her first victory against Tiffany Stratton atRoadblock with the help ofSarray.[11][12]
On March 17, 2022, it was announced that she officially signed adevelopmental contract withWWE.[4] In April 2022, Henley's backstory was explained as she was a country girl who worked at her family's bar to pay for her wrestling training. She developed a friendship withBrooks Jensen andJosh Briggs who had similarblue collar characters, accompanying them going forward in their matches, establishing herself as a babyface in the process.[13] Henley entered theNXT Women's Breakout Tournament, defeatingSloane Jacobs in the first round before being eliminated by Tiffany Stratton in the semifinals.[14][15]
Later that year, Henley began being involved in a storyline withKiana James. James, as part of her businesswoman gimmick, was looking to buy the Henley Family Bar and redevelop the land for condos. After a while, Henley and James developed a grudging respect and formed a tag team. AtNXT Vengeance Day, on February 4, 2023, Henley and James defeatedKatana Chance andKayden Carter to win theNXT Women's Tag Team Championship, the first title in her professional wrestling career.[16] AtNXT Stand & Deliver, they lost the tag titles toAlba FyreandIsla Dawn.[17] Later on NXT, Henley and James tried to regain their titles against Dawn and Fyre, but they were unsuccessful.[18] After discovering that James was cheating on Brooks Jensen with a man named Sebastian, Henley parted ways with James while Jensen choose to stay with James. However, on April 25 atSpring Breakin', Henley and Josh Briggs defeated James and Jensen,[19] which caused James to admit to Jensen that she never actually loved him. It led to Jensen ultimately reuniting with Henley and Briggs.[20]
On April 30, at Night 2 ofSpring Breakin', Henley turnedheel by attacking Hail following Hail's victory over Jayne, frustrated over the lack of respect from her peers along with her career going nowhere after not being called up to the main roster. She emphasized focusing on herself with a goal to win theNXT Women's North American Championship, during her rise to Battleground she would start looking and dressing more attractively, talking down and tormenting the younger inexperienced talent she swore to help, and cheat in her matches, something she once was adamantly against previously.[26][27] AtNXT Battleground, she participated in a six-women ladder match for the newly created NXT Women's North American Championship but failed to win the title at the event.[28][29] Her frustrations would increase when the winner and new NXT Women's North American Champion, Kelani Jordan, chose to giveSol Ruca, the first title match atHeatwave despite both women's past friendship, Jacy Jayne would return to TV to play on Henley's frustrations, with the promise of helping her win the coveted NXT Women's North American Championship, if she were to join her and fellow associateJazmyn Nyx. On the July 9 episode ofNXT, Henley, who took issue with wrestlers with no independent wrestling background getting more opportunities in NXT, formed an alliance with Jacy Jayne.[30] A vignette centered around their dream to become wrestlers revealed that Henley and Jayne had known each other prior to WWE, with both accepting NIL recruit Nyx as a third member who didn't fall in line with the other new Performance Center athlete recruits.[31] The group would eventually go by the nameFatal Influence.[32] The trio teamed up for the first time at Night 1 ofNXT: The Great American Bash on July 30, where they defeatedKarmen Petrovic,Lola Vice, andSol Ruca in a six-woman tag team match.[33]
AtNXT Halloween Havoc on October 27, Kelani Jordan faced Fatal Influence in agauntlet match for the NXT Women's North American Championship. Henley defeated Jordan to win the title as the third person in the gauntlet after interference from Jayne and Nyx, winning her first singles championship in her wrestling career.[34] On the November 26 episode ofNXT, Henley defended her title againstTatum Paxley, after which she along with Jayne and Nyx would deliver a beatdown to Paxley, untilGigi Dolin came down to even the odds, thus starting a feud with Dolin and Paxley (after whichShotzi would align with Dolin and Paxley a week later). The two teams would face off atNXT: New Year's Evil, with Fatal Influence coming out on the losing end.[35] AtNXT Vengeance Day on February 15, 2025, Henley lost the NXT Women's North American Championship toStephanie Vaquer, ending her reign at 111 days.[36]
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