By now, you probably know that Allysin Kay and Marti Belle are the duo known as The Hex.
While both women have had their own singles careers, they came together as a tag team during the pandemic era. They teamed up in Shimmer in October 2020 and in the following two years, they would wrestle in promotions like Shine, Ring of Honor, Women’s Wrestling Army, RevPro and the NWA where they held the revitalized NWA Women’s Tag Team titles for a total of 287 days.
By 2022, the Hex landed the ninth spot in the 2022 PWI Top 100 Tag Teams list.
Fast forward to February 2023, The Hex (now going by just Hex) appeared in Impact Wrestling, aligning themselves with Father James Mitchell and attacking Knockouts Tag Team Champions The Death Dollz who they will challenge for the belts at Friday’s No Surrender.
Both women had previously worked in the past as singles competitors for Impact, but this is their first action there as a team. Kay even held the Knockouts title, going by Sienna.
Prior to their tag team bout at No Surrender, we talked about a variety of topics.
The Hex name
“While James Mitchell may be using us to put a hex on the Death Dollz, we do like to clarify we’re not witches. There’s a lot of witches in wrestling right now and we’re not trying to be witches. We’re called The Hex because we will ruin your whole life,” Kay said.
Becoming a team
While Kay and Belle had been friends for over a decade, it wasn’t until 2020 that they started to team up. While the world was quarantining due to the pandemic, Belle said they took the opportunity to figure out what they would do differently once the world reopened again.
“We were working together in NWA, and we were working together in so many places. People think that we’ve been tagging for years and we’ve only been tagging for a little over two years,” Belle said.
She said they used social media to get their names out as a duo as they wanted to see how people would react to them and to get bigger opportunities.
Kay shared that all their first few matches were for titles and they even won some gold themselves, going on to do a tour of Europe and noting that they had become very “sucHEXfull” in a play on their team name and the word successful.
Highs and lows
Kay said that you can’t expect anything in wrestling because it owes you nothing but that they did have confidence in their abilities. However, she elaborated that doesn’t always equal success or that you get everything you want.
“It absolutely has to do with being in the right place at the right time and that’s a very frustrating thing that you have accept in wrestling,” she said.
In 2020, Kay felt they were at a very low point in their lives as many were.
“We were having so much success in NWA in our own individual singles careers and then everything came crashing down and suddenly you have nothing. We felt like we were going up the hill and then all of a sudden, everything came crashing down and that’s really where the brainstorming part started coming into play. When wrestling started to pick up a little more toward the end of 2020, we were going, ‘Okay, what do we now?'”
Both women explained that they both had been wrestling since 2008 and realized that it was time to evolve.
“You have to evolve in wrestling and you have to change. Not necessarily change who you are or your integrity or everything about you, but you have to evolve little by little and this is the next evolution of our careers,” said Kay.
The PWI rankings
Belle shared that the craziest thing about landing the number nine spot on the 2022 PWI Top 100 Tag Teams list is that they did everything on their own terms and without being signed to a major promotion.
“It’s crazy because we did it all on our own. I think that to us is the biggest ‘holy s*it.’ We did that on our own. We did this without a contract in any company,” said Belle.
Kay will be in action on Thursday’s Impact as she takes on Taya Valkyrie as a preview of Friday’s title match.
