WWE NXT star Mandy Rose who is the current and longest reigning WWE NXT Women’s champion recently talked about her comparisons with WWE Hall of Famer Trish Stratus. She also explained how she always tried to prove herself in the ring.
Mandy Rose spent 4 years on the main roster but she did not get any success as such. She was involved in various storylines with different wrestlers, but it was really difficult for her to earn success. She was involved in storylines with the likes of Sonya Deville and Paige but she could not win any championships in the main roster. Somehow she was becoming an afterthought.
Mandy Rose Discusses Her Comparison Trish Stratus
In 2021 she returned to the NXT and instantly it was understood that WWE had something big planned for the American Professional wrestler. Upon making her return to the NXT she teamed up with Gigi Dolin and Jacy Jayne and together the trio started to be known as the Toxic Attraction.
It became one of the hottest factions of the NXT. She also defeated Raquel Gonzales who is currently going by the name of Raquel Rodriguez in Friday Night Smackdown to win the NXT Women’s Championship.
She went on to become one of the most dominant NXT Women’s champions in the history of NXT. She is currently the longest reigning NXT Women’s champion in the history and she has defeated some of the biggest names of the brand. There were rumours that she would soon make her return to the main roster to continue her main event status but recently, she dropped the NXT Women’s title to Roxanne Perez and got released from WWE which was pretty shocking.
Mandy Rose who is the current and longest reigning WWE NXT Women’s champion recently spoke to Chris Van Vliet where she talked about her comparisons with WWE Hall of Famer Trish Stratus. She also explained how she always tried to prove herself in the ring. She said;
“I’m so grateful. And I feel like, you know, everyone’s different. Sometimes it matters how much talent you have, obviously, we’ve seen that. And it’s just, it’s just some things just don’t work out, or some things just weren’t meant to be. So, I am really grateful for that. But, you know, deep down, I knew that, you know, I always knew I had this, I always knew I could always get better at it, right?
“Like, everyone, you get better with time, but you need the opportunity, right? So, it’s like, can’t really show anything if you don’t have that opportunity. And if you’re just kind of known for being the blond bombshell, or the golden goddess and eye candy, or whatever it is, my whole vision of ever since I started in WWE was always even in the NXT back in the day was like, Yeah, I know, I look like this. And I know, it could be intimidating. Or also like, Oh, she’s just here for the fame and whatnot, all the, you know, stigmas that I’ve gotten.
“But I knew that like, my biggest thing was to prove myself in the ring. I knew it was like a Trish Stratus story, you know, like, why can’t you be hot and still, like, be able to wrestle, right? Like, it’s been done before? Like, why do I get such like heat? Or why do I get so much backlash for looking like this? But I knew in the back of my head that like, it takes time, respect, you know, you have to kind of gain your respect you have to put your time in. So I just knew over time, eventually it would turn.”
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