NXT Women’s Champion Mandy Rose continues to thrive with Toxic Attraction; alongside Gigi Dolin and Jacy Jayne, the trio won all the gold in WWE NXT 2.0‘s women’s division at Halloween Havoc.
It’s easy to assume that Rose, the veteran Superstar in the group, is helping her younger stablemates, but in an interview with Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful, the new NXT Women’s Champion explained how the duo is helping her grow and teaching her as they continue to gel as a group. She noted how no matter what stage a performer is at, there’s always room to improve, and she’s seeing that during her run in NXT 2.0.
“I didn’t really know them too well obviously when I first went to NXT,” said Rose. “I knew they were different from me in the sense of characters and all that, and I knew they were just starting to get on TV. But I liked the idea that they were different and I thought it was cool because we showed some clips of me and Franky Monet and I think people thought I was gonna join the Robert Stone Brand or something like that because it kind of was the obvious. And I think it was cool that we didn’t go with the obvious and that we kind of swerved them and to showing that I was gonna take these two women under my wing, yet they were very different than me. But everyone thought like, oh they’re probably just gonna make the girls look more like Mandy or be kind of more like Mandy Rose.
“But it was kind of a swerve in the sense of like along the process of me helping them, I was the one that became more edgier, and they helped me along the process, which it was a collaboration. And I always say no matter how experienced you are or how good you are at something, there’s always learning, and you do learn while you’re with women that might be in a different stage than you are in.”
Of course, as the veteran in the group, Rose has plenty of experience to share with Dolin and Jayne. his dynamic reminds her of her time in Absolution. In this trio, Rose worked alongside Sonya Deville and Paige, with the latter coaching the newcomers to the main roster. Looking back on it, the champion described how being in this mentorship role in Toxic Attraction makes her feel like she’s the Paige of the group.
“I think the comparison with Absolution and Paige keeps coming up, and I think that’s kinda cool because it was only four, I don’t even know exactly, maybe three and a half, four years ago maybe when Absolution was born,” said Rose. “It’s kind of cool because only a few years later, I’m kind of doing that as being the leader and kind of being the Paige, which I never thought, I thought maybe in that could happen, but I didn’t think so soon. But I think it’s really cool. And I think Paige taught us so much, and I’m kind of reflecting off the things she taught us when we were kind of in that stage.”
The full interview is available here:
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