Then I obviously got more intuitive with everything and I thought ‘No, I can be a really good bad guy’ or whatever it may be. It was definitely really weird to me and then actually, I was like screw it, I’m going to embrace this. I was like ‘everyone liked me in the fitness world, why does no one like me here!’.
On Tough Enough, when I didn’t even know that much about the business, I thought it was so strange. There’s a bit of stigma there, is that something you’ve felt during your WWE run? It seems that whenever an attractive woman enters the wrestling business, the pressure is on them to pick it up fast in this day and age, to prove they’re more than eye candy. TalkSPORT caught up with Rose this week and in part two of our chat with the 29-year-old we discussed overcoming stigmas, working with Paige, who came up with God’s Greatest Creation and what she’d like to see next for the women in WWE. With an ultra-successful angle with Otis at WrestleMania – that she pitched to Vince McMahon herself – and a brewing rivalry with former best friend Sonya Deville, things are clicking for Rose right now. That’s where I think we’re headed.Mandy Rose and Otis’ WrestleMania moment! I have no doubt in my mind if it doesn’t happen this year or the next year it’ll happen in a few years because the women have gone from eye candy to secondary storylines to major feature and faces of this company. become a normal thing where it’s not a big deal like ‘the first ever’ - it’s just going to become a normal thing and that’s all what we really want.įlair On Women Main Eventing WrestleMania: We all want a main event WrestleMania and I don’t think we’re too far from it. I feel like our women could have even main event WrestleMania. I truly, truly feel that, and I don’t think it’s that far off.īayley On Women Main Eventing WrestleMania: Change takes time.Īlexa Bliss On Women Main Eventing WrestleMania: It’s just over time, the WWE universe wanted more for us, and finally WWE listened. I knew I was athletic enough and the women were athletic, but they were so put together and so beautiful and they were Divas, so I just never saw myself in that light, but, now, fast forward to where we are today, I think the message is: ‘You can still be bad-ass and a diva at the same time and that’s what it’s all about.’ The Divas Championship is very much important of our history and those women fought just as hard as we do today. If it weren’t for the 30-second matches, it wasn’t for the Divas era, if it weren’t for any of that, we wouldn’t have the revolution, and Evolution we have today and now, our women are having opportunities that you would never expect a woman to have.Ĭharlotte Flair On The Bellas & The Divas Era: When I got tasked with being her first real singles match, at first I was like ‘Are you sure?’’ Then I sat back and was like, ‘This is such a huge honor.’Īlexa Bliss Gives Credit To The Women Of The Past: Nia Jax On Being Ronda Rousey’s First Singles Opponent: Young girls and boys all over get to see different kind of women in the spotlight. I feel like being so different in the WWE in the women’s division - it’s been an actual incredibly positive thing. Nia Jax On How Being Different Has Worked For Her: Everybody wants to top each other.īayley On Why Evolution Was Appealing To Wrestling Fans:Īll the generations get to be a part of it, and it’s just really special to actually be here, and experiencing it, and living it. All of us want to be best, and all of us support each other so much, but we all want to be better than one another and it’s like a great competition.
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