on 13 november episode of "nxt", ray interfered in a ladder match between io shirai and mia yim. ray helped shirai win the match. it was soon learned that ray was the fourth member of shayna baszler along with shirai. their team would later face yim and the rest of rhea ripley's team at the first female war games ripley's team beat baszler's team at . on the 8 january 2021 episode of "nxt", ray teamed with bianca belair and io shirai. they lost against storm, ripley and candice lerae.