Lana was one of the most popular superstars of the WWE female superstars during her heyday in the company. She never had the chance to learn wrestling in a traditional way but rather gradually grew in love with it while spending time in the WWE and with her colleagues. But her spontaneous activities in or out of the ring always kept her in the news.
Before getting released by the WWE, Lana made quite the headlines via a huge storyline where she cheated her on and off-screen husband Rusev with Bobby Lashley. That turned out to be one of the most passionate storylines of the entire PG era. A few years later, neither she nor her husband is employed with the WWE.
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That wasn’t the first time that WWE utilized Lana in a romantic angle that had nothing to do with her real-life relationship with Rusev. Back in 2015, she broke her on-screen alliance with The Bulgarian Brute to get hooked up with another kayfabe relationship with Dolph Ziggler.
Appearing on The Session hosted by former WWE Superstar Renee Young, real name Renee Paquette, Lana revisited that infamous angle where she had quite a few make-out sessions with flamboyant Ziggler. To make things natural on TV, Vince McMahon wanted the two on-screen lovebirds to rehearse things in front of him and Rusev.
“We got called in. It’s Ace, Vince, Dolph, and Miro. We had to practice the kiss and Miro is turning red in the corner. Vince is like, ‘What? We’re all adults. What’s the problem? We’re all adults. It’s professionalism. Don’t be weird.’ So we do it,” Lana recalled those rehearsing sessions with her WWE Raw co-star.
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Vince McMahon himself improvised kisses between Lana and Dolph Ziggler
Moving on, Lana also noted how Vince McMahon wanted her to go slow in kissing Ziggler so that it didn’t seem like she was a pro at locking lips. So, Vince himself showed them how to do it using Johnny Laurinaitis as a prop,
“I recently watched it with one of my friends, and I was like, ‘This is so slow’, but everyone was like, ‘You look so innocent like you’ve never done it before’, and that’s what Vince was going for. He wanted it to be innocent like she had never kissed anyone before.’ It was very weird.” (quotes courtesy Wrestling News)
While this was an entraining storyline on Monday Night Raw, it never could fruition in a proper way since people knew that Lana and Rusev were still a couple. Their engagement pictures also went viral at that time due to which WWE had to abruptly call off the angle.
