For the last three years, Maxxine Dupri has been capable of call Otis and Akira Tozawa good friends of hers, with the three repeatedly supporting one another’s work in WWE. Behind the scenes, Dupri attests that they’ve enjoyed numerous adventures together outside of the ring as well.
“They’re my best friends. I really like them,” Dupri told Denise Salcedo. “I actually have the best time with them. We now have a lot fun. I just love who they’re as human beings. I really like who they’re within the ring. I feel they’re two of probably the most underrated superstars we have now on the roster. I’m just really grateful that I’ve had such a gorgeous experience traveling with them and seeing the world with them and sharing the ring with them. Truly, my first matches were in Alpha Academy, so I actually have literally been raised and provide you with them. It has been a extremely special experience.”
With extensive training alongside Otis and Chad Gable, Dupri marked her in-ring debut as an Alpha Academy member in July 2023. Gable later left the stable in 2024 to align himself with the Creed Brothers and Ivy Nile. Nevertheless, the partnership between Otis, Tozawa, and Dupri remained intact even to this present day.
In November 2025, Otis and Tozawa notably joined Dupri in celebrating her WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship win over Becky Lynch, which took place inside NYC’s Madison Square Garden. Dupri later dropped the title back to Lynch on the January 5 edition of “WWE Raw.”
Dupri Explains Her Budding Friendship With Austin Theory
In more moderen months, Dupri has also gotten chummy with WWE World Tag Team Champion Austin Theory. Otis and Tozawa, alternatively, have admittedly grown skeptical of this budding friendship, particularly attributable to Theory’s perceived status as “bad news.”
Otis has raised this concern to Dupri on multiple occasions. Dupri, though, insists that they cut Theory some slack as he’s currently coping with personal matters.
“I’m a friendly girl. I get together with everyone,” Durpi said. “I’m friends with all the women within the locker room. I’m friends with plenty of the fellows on the roster. And I feel that The Vision is doing what The Vision must do, and perhaps they’re a bit of misunderstood. I feel that if people took the time to get to know them and get to know Austin [Theory] that perhaps they’d feel in another way. I just think that I’ve gotten to see that other side.”
Dupri and Theory have yet to formally align themselves on WWE programming, though fans have regularly spotted them talking within the background of assorted segments. On one occasion, Dupri was seen leaving “Raw” with Theory and his Vision stablemates.
Theory returned to WWE TV in late 2025 as a masked assailant targeting the rivals of The Vision. Fast forward to June 2026, he now reigns as one-half of the World Tag Team Champions alongside Bron Breakker, who recently stepped in, via Freebird Rule, as co-champion attributable to an premature tricep injury sustained by Logan Paul.
When you use any of the quotes in this text, please credit Denise Salcedo with a h/t to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.