ray made her first appearance in the wwe at the 8 october 2015 tapings of "nxt". she lost to nia jax. the next time she worked for wwe was in 2017. she was one of 32 people in the first mae young classic, she lost to princesa sugehit in the first round. the next night, she was in a six-woman tag team match as part of the "wwe mae young classic – road to the finals" event. she teamed with jazzy gabert and tessa blanchard to beat marti belle, santana garrett, and sarah logan.