She was assigned to their then-developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), where she made her debut July that year under the ring name "The Candy Girl", in a Divas handicap tag team match, where she teamed with Alicia Fox and Rosa Mendes to defeat Tiffany and Angela.

[1] After returning to wrestle in September 2010 on the third season of NXT under the name "Maxine",[11] she became the acting General Manager of FCW, and formed a villainous group with Aksana, Lucky Cannon and Damien Sandow.

[15] On the March 11, 2012 episode of FCW TV, Maxine was fired from the position of the acting General Manager, and was later replaced with Summer Rae.

[24][25] After her elimination, Maxine later made an appearance on the season finale on November 30, 2010, where she teamed with Alicia Fox and Aksana in a loss to AJ and The Bella Twins.

[33] On the November 2 episode of NXT Redemption, Bateman and Maxine became known as "Beta-Max", and they competed in a six-person mixed tag team match along with JTG in a loss to AJ, O'Neil and Percy Watson.

[34] On the November 30 episode of NXT Redemption, Maxine lost a match against her former mentor Alicia Fox, when she was accidentally distracted by Derrick Bateman and his mother, and ended up leaving the arena with Johnny Curtis,[35] resulting in Maxine breaking up with Bateman on the December 7 episode of NXT Redemption.

[46] For being involved with Striker's storyline kidnapping, on the March 18 episode of NXT Redemption, after Maxine defeated Kaitlyn in a match, she and Curtis were forced by Regal to sign a contract to permanently be each other's manager or be fired, and were afterwards handcuffed together.

[48][49] Maxine then transitioned into a fan favorite, and defeated Tamina Snuka on the May 9 episode of NXT Redemption, and was later released from being handcuffed to Johnny Curtis by Curt Hawkins and Tyler Reks.

[50][51] Her last appearance was on the June 25 episode of Raw as part of the Divas Summertime Beach Battle Royal match won by AJ.

[2] She made her first appearance with the promotion on the second episode of Lucha Underground on November 6, 2014, where she was introduced as "Catrina", the on-screen girlfriend and valet of Mil Muertes.

Catrina subsequently returned to managing Muertes and The Disciples of Death (Barrio Negro, Trece and El Sinestro de la Muerte), and helped them win the Lucha Underground Trios Championship from Ivelisse, Angélico and Son of Havoc at Ultima Lucha 1 on July 29.

Under her real name, Perez defeated Joey Ryan at a Beyond Wrestling event in Providence, Rhode Island on August 30, 2015.

[60] Catrina made her Major League Wrestling debut at Fightland, resuming her function as Mil Muertes' valet.