Wrestling veteran Jim Cornette has suggested that the newly released Mandy Rose did more to improve herself as a wrestler than Ronda Rousey.
Rose was released on December 14th after WWE became increasingly uncomfortable with with the content she was posting on her FanTime subscription service.
The images, videos and live streams were said to have become more sexual in nature in recent weeks, something WWE did not support. In the wake of her departure it was noted that WWE felt they had “no choice” but to release the star, as they felt her content had gone “way, way over the line,”
Rose’s agent has since claimed that the star has already earned $500,000 since being let go.
Jim Cornette Compares Ronda Rousey To Mandy Rose
Speaking on his podcast, the Jim Cornette Experience, the legendary manager was asked about the perceived double-standard WWE have employed when it came to firing Rose. Some have suggested it is hypocritical of WWE and those in charge to suggest Rose’s content was to too controversial given the sexually charged storylines that they have previously used.
Cornette began by explaining that Mandy Rose wasn’t a major name by taking a little shot at Ronda Rousey in the process.
“But nevertheless, the response, Mandy Rose was the female champion of NXT. It’s not like they fired Becky Lynch or Charlotte Flair or Ronda Rousey. Ronda Rousey, by the way, there’s a f*cking candidate for just moving out the door. She’s been lacklustre. Mandy Rose has probably been putting more oomph into her sh*t than Ronda Rousey has but it’s still not like this girl has ever main evented a major show or they’ve had you know, scores of people buying tickets to see her.
Apparently, they’ve been subscribing online in large numbers to see her, but there’s no middleman there. She’s getting all that directly, which is why we suspectified that she said well, you know, I can take bumps and have these girls land on my head or I can just swim around in the pool and take subscriptions on the internet. Who’s the f*cking mark, right? But I’m not knocking her. She’s not a major star. But the level of controversy from her dedicated fans was all about the double standard. And we talked about this on the Drive Thru,”
Cornette continued by breaking down what has been called WWE’s double-standard, explaining how times have moved on since the company was cutting deals with Playboy a number of years ago.
“I will summarise yes, 20 years ago, WWF had a deal with Playboy. And they were a more adult product, and they were dealing with Playboy and doing all the blah, blah, blah of the Attitude Era. And you know, that’s fine. But then they made the decision as a company to move away from that, and now they’re hooked up with different kinds of sponsors, and different kinds of f*cking business that they’re doing, and they wouldn’t do business with Disney.
And it’s 20 years later, and people are touchier in the overall public about all kinds of sh*t related to sex, even if people are having fun doing it and not having a problem with it, there’s still touchy about it. So now it’s not a double standard from what you were allowed to do 20 years ago than what you’re allowed to do now in the same company, it’s changed.
It would be a double standard as we made the point if somebody right now was allowed to do a thing that somebody else right now in the company in the same or similar position or job was not allowed to do. And that sometimes goes on as we’ve heard, but this doesn’t seem to be that instant.
But I gotta be honest with you, Brian. I saw [the content]. People were kind enough to tweet a few things, she’s swimming around in a swimming pool, you know, the itty bitty titty committee. You can see the, you know, the girls there. But the water in front of them, she’s covered by blue water. [But] point being she’s in the pool. It wasn’t even, she was under the water with her nakedness of her prestiges. It was tastefully done, as they say, candid photography.
I mean, you know if they can say put a piece of tape over, you know, the udders, maybe something like that. But it wasn’t too unsavoury type of content. I’m wondering if maybe, because everybody was talking like, oh my god, she’s gone too far. But I mean, this is timely. You see this stuff on the cover of what is that magazine that they have? [Fitness magazines]”
Mandy Rose joined WWE in 2015 after competing in the sixth series of Tough Enough. The New York native joined the main roster two years later but it wasn’t until Rose returned to NXT in July 2021 that she really hit her stride. The star formed Toxic Attraction alongside Gigi Dolin and Jacy Jayne, and won the NXT Women’s Title just three months later.
Over the next year the trio dominated NXT’s women’s division, with Rose enjoying a 413 day run with the women’s title.
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