Mandy Rose has been released.

[Smart Marx]

WON: It is believed Mandy Rose was fired without being given the option to take the stuff down and tone down her site.

"When Michaels found out earlier in the week about the new content, the NXT television show was rewritten and Rose was ordered to drop the title to Perez.

She was fired the next morning. Supposedly she was blindsided about it."

Uncle Dave also believes the initial Fightful report that Mandy was blindsided and not given any kind of choice.

Dave also added for the first time that Shawn made the call himself at the last minute to strip Mandy of the title.

 

[Sabretooth]

Idk this is just the weirdest shit ever.

 

[JakeYourBooty]

If true fuck HBK some hypocrisy there


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[Smart Marx]

If true fuck HBK some hypocrisy there


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In like a million different ways.

 

[Stellar]

First off, I hate Xero News. I usually don't like saying "hate" but fuck whoever that is. People this year had been trying to push Xero News as a reliable source and it sure as shit isn't.

If the news from Meltzer and Fightful is true then fuck HBK. Such BS and I really wish that somehow this would backfire on WWE.

 

[Kaiser]

I don't know where to go from there for the wrestling companies. Don't forget, that was no leak. She sold the picture of her with intention, while being champion at NXT.
Let's stay honest: Mandy Rose is a pretty woman, but there are many like that out there trying to earn money with showing their naked butts. The only reason people paid for seeing that kind of content of her is people knowing her as champion from NXT on TV.
She is already over 30, so the big actor-career didn't happen and then she got pushed like crazy on WWE and she made a move to make big money with that attention, before nobody cares about her anymore. But again, she only could make that money with showing her butt and more, because WWE invested years of TV time into her.
And no ... there is nothing "wrong" about her selling the popularity given to her by WWE, especially if she had waited until she is gone from WWE. If people had really cared about 40yo Mandy Rose in a few years, I don't know. But if all these wrestlers sell themself, while being on WWE shows and in this case even being a champion, then I don't see how WWE or other wrestling companies should handle that. I mean, let's say a wrestling company gives a woman wrestler a push or she finally becomes champ ... and then immeadatly she starts selling adult content or personal stuff on in the internet to make money with that popularity on her own. If the company fires that wrestler, who already made the money, then part of the wrestling fans critisize that company for it. The same fans, who complain about unfair contracts, which made such moves by wrestlers more difficult. Or the fans complain the wrestling company would be too much about itself and not about creating stars.
In the future the contracts will become even more ridiculous or they avoid investing too much tv time into a single wrestler. I guess WWE will become even more paranoid.

 

[Comrade Khan]

yikes

 

[Comrade Khan]

TK right now:

 

[Wiseman]

Wait, what? Booker doesn't want other promotions using her? Or it was a corporate move so other promotions wouldn't use her?

 

[Comrade Khan]

Wait, what? Booker doesn't want other promotions using her? Or it was a corporate move so other promotions wouldn't use her?

Speaking on his Hall of Fame podcast, NXT announcer Booker T gave his thoughts on Rose's release.

"It's a bad situation, the company being put in a situation where they had to do something about it, Mandy Rose putting herself in a situation. 'Put yourself in a situation,' I say that all the time. That's real. You put yourself in a situation and something happens. That's exactly what happened here. I've been around Mandy Rose since the beginning, since Tough Enough. I watched her work so hard to win, she didn't win, but she impressed me to the point where I was like, 'Give her a contract, put her in the game.' Things didn't work out on the main roster, she went back to NXT and has been banging for the past 413 days as champion and created one of the most awesome runs for a female that we've seen in decades. She put herself in a great position to be looked at as a major superstar like Trish Stratus. People are going to remember Trish forever from WWE and what she's done in the ring. Trust me, Trish Stratus, now, is able to do all of that, OnlyFans or whatever else, and is going to be able to make more money from being a WWE Superstar for so many years. What I'm saying is, I hate it because that money was going to always be there for Mandy Rose. It was like money in the bank. She didn't even need it right now. It was money in the bank for Mandy Rose. I could be wrong, maybe she does need it right now. I don't know. What I'm saying is, the bigger her star would have risen in the WWE, the more money she would have been able to demand going forward in life. Out of sight, out of mind. Being on TV is so important to being relevant. These days, they say, 'We don't need TV, we can do our own thing,' of course you can, but your star is not going to shine as bright," he said.

When it was brought up to Booker that WWE would promote Mandy's sex appeal as part of her character, and that Booker would often make comments about her looks on commentary, Booker responded with an analogy.

"I've been around a long time. I'm going to throw an analogy out there that is the stupidest analogy in the world right now. I used to love Gilligan's Island just so I could watch Ginger Grant. She was the hottest, biscottiest you've ever seen back in the day and as sexual as you wanted to see a woman. If she was doing porn or exposing herself, do you think they would have had her on Gilligan's Island playing that role? It's a corporate thing. It has nothing to do with anything other than that. It's a corporate thing," he stated. "Hopefully, Mandy Rose can find her way back to WWE. Something like this can blow over, it's up to Mandy in order to make something like this right, more than anything. She's very sexual, but working for WWE, they go together in aspects, but in certain aspects, certain things you're not going to get away with."


Booker admitted he had not seen the content of Mandy's posts before addressing how WWE would capitalize on sex appeal in the Attitude Era.

"I think they would have had a problem with this even back in the Bra and Panties matches days if some girl just showed up in Playboy, birthday suit spread. It would probably be the same thing. They probably would have let that person go, that person would get a nice payoff from the Playboy spread. I'm not going to push that life for Mandy Rose. I know everyone wants to see Mandy Rose naked. She has the right to put her body or image out there any way she wants, but this is a young lady that has talent, so much more talent than just her beauty and how she looks. She's made a hell of a career for herself in the WWE over the last five years. I would hate to see her throw something like that away all into a world that is very dangerous to fall into. I'm wishing for Mandy Rose to make a return, someway, somehow, find her way back to WWE," he said.

When the idea of Mandy signing with AEW or another company was brought up, Booker closed with his thoughts on that potentially happening.

"I was one of the first ones that said AEW took Jeff Hardy immediately after he was having problems. They wanted to look past that. This right here is a problem more than anything. I don't think someone should just jump in and think about 'let's make some money off of Mandy Rose and her sex appeal,' and, let's put it out there, use her. I don't want Mandy Rose to be used by any of these other so-called wannabe promoters," he stated.

Booker wished Mandy well and said she could reach out to him at any time.

 

[Smart Marx]

Booker T must not realize there was a WWE Diva in Playboy on a near annual basis for 10 years and they even promoted the spread and unveiled the covers on WWE tv.

 

[JakeYourBooty]

Booker dumb as fuck


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[Wiseman]

The Ginger analogy was fucking dumb. I get it different times and everything but facts are facts, they promoted woman, who were on the roster in Playboy. The only thing that is different this time around, IMO, is that WWE isn't getting any of the money from her bag. That's how I see it.

Will AEW sign Mandy Rose, who knows. Toni Storm was doing OF, sure not as racy but still doing it. Do I think AEW needs to sign Mandy Rose? Not really. Mandy Rose isn't that big of a name and honestly I don't think she was ever really that good.

 

[Apoho Creed]

Whatever Booker T and HBK are smoking I say get off that stuff immediately because you start seeing imaginary stuff around yaw. If WWE was getting a little taste of that money they wouldn't of done the release we all know that. HBK has turned into a Yes Man while Booker T clearly went to someone to forget all the promoting WWE did when he was there with ladies in the Divas Division being apart of Playboy.

 

[Roy Mustang]

TK right now:

I would post the Stokely video about dickriding but Booker dickrides WWE so much he surely has a license at this point.

WON: It is believed Mandy Rose was fired without being given the option to take the stuff down and tone down her site.

"When Michaels found out earlier in the week about the new content, the NXT television show was rewritten and Rose was ordered to drop the title to Perez.

She was fired the next morning. Supposedly she was blindsided about it."

Uncle Dave also believes the initial Fightful report that Mandy was blindsided and not given any kind of choice.

Dave also added for the first time that Shawn made the call himself at the last minute to strip Mandy of the title.

Bret Hart is better