WWE has opted for the very, very slow burn to Bray Wyatt’s story, and the direction and effectiveness of the story already has to raise concerns. So it becomes a question of priorities – and the grappling between WWE and its performers over their outside monetary pursuits likely isn’t going away. But many wrestlers reportedly make more from their personal businesses than from their wrestling contracts. Mandy Rose gets support after WWE release over racy photosįor WWE, this may scare other talents from testing the limits of WWE’s rules on their personal subscription sites as Rose appeared to do. As All Elite Wrestling and Impact look to bolster their women’s divisions, it would be highly logical for the promotions to evaluate the possibility of signing Rose. Her agent told TMZ that Rose has made $500,000 on FanTime since her firing. Her stock as a wrestler has never been higher, and the interest in her site. No one likes to see anyone lose their job, but the 32-year-old Rose will be fine. If that was the case with Rose and WWE was living by the letter of its law – which it has the right to – then Rose would serve as an example to others to not push the limits on their personal sites or risk being fired. He threatened termination if terms were violated. In 2020, then-CEO Vince McMahon sent a letter warning talents about participating in subscription platforms without cooperation with WWE. David Gunn/WWE Mandy Rose was NXT women’s champion for more than a year. However, WWE – fairly or unfairly – has taken a very strict stance on its talents’ personal subscription sites from the start because of the company’s lack of control over those sites and inability to profit from them. It felt like an infraction that deserved a suspension and reset rather than a firing. Either way, she put herself in a tricky spot. We have yet to hear her side of the matter, so we don’t have all the answers yet, including whether she would have been open to toning down the content. At least initially it appears WWE didn’t give her a chance to take down the content they took issue with or abstain from it going forward. So WWE had Rose drop the NXT women’s championship, which she held for more than 400 days in her best run yet in the company, to Roxanne Perez last Tuesday on TV and then fired her the next day. As much as WWE sexualized Rose’s character over the years, the company has much different standards than what was allowed during the Attitude and Ruthless Aggression eras. Racy photos and videos from Rose’s FanTime subscription site, which included an X-rated photo of her and her fiancé Tino Sabbatelli in the shower, leaked online and reportedly went outside the parameters of her WWE deal. WWE’s firing of Mandy Rose was the end result of a complicated situation, and it likely won’t be the last time we see fallout from clashes over third-party content. The Post’s Joseph Staszewski brings you around the world of professional wrestling every Tuesday in his weekly column, the Post Match Angle. WWE has unique opportunity to honor Bray Wyatt's creative legacy with Uncle Howdyīray Wyatt pushed boundaries as unique WWE creative force before untimely deathĮdge's beautiful WWE moment comes with plenty of uncertainty, AEW possibility All Out was everything AEW needed and more after CM Punk drama
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