Summer Rae had a bad streak of luck when it came to storyline conclusions while in WWE.
Former WWE Superstar Summer Rae was a recent guest on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet. When asked about the storyline that featured her, Rusev, Lana, and Dolph Ziggler, Rae said it was cool at first because it really seemed organic.
“The Rusev, Lana, Dolph storyline was cool because it actually seems really organic,” Summer Rae said. “Like bringing in Dolph, you know, like having us do that we all really enjoyed working with each other when it first like started happening, me Single White Femaling her like pretending to be her and stuff like that was good. But yeah, when it definitely broke down Lana got injured.
“I can’t remember what and she was still learning how to wrestle at the time. Like she hadn’t wrestled much on the main roster so I was trying to teach her things as well as we’re going along. Yeah, when the TMZ storyline got mysteriously leaked to TMZ no one cares, we aren’t Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, you know.
Rusev and Lana’s Engagement Leaks
“That really set Vince off and like everyone, because I don’t know why. But we were like the favorite storyline of him. It was crazy. I think at the time, Cena had a storyline for four months, and we were going on three, so just wasn’t something you were seeing like how they do nowadays, like amazing, long storylines. The storytelling in WWE right now is just really coming around so differently.
“But it was interesting that we were like, we were getting crossover position, like great, you know, positions. And so when I went there, he was really upset. I think the head writers at the time were really upset too, because they had just been so invested in it. And I think the fans aren’t dumb like to know that there was never a payoff like we never had a payoff match.
“Lana and I never went back and forth. We never had the doubles match even like, so clearly something went wrong in the storyline. And so thank God, we were in Chicago, the best wrestling crowd, in my opinion in the nation, because Europe is great, as well.”
“It Blew Up In Our Faces”
Summer Rae also talked about how the head writers treated the four of them once the news of Rusev and Lana’s engagement got out to TMZ.
“So when the Rusev Lana storyline blew up in our faces. We’re in Chicago just happened to be and I lived in Chicago, for seven years; big Bears fan,” Summer Rae said. “So like people knew that. And usually, I would get pretty solid reactions even if I was on Main Event or something. I was like, Oh, that’s weird I’m over. And we found out that day, I think they called me into the office.
“I don’t even think it was Vince. I think the head writers called me and they were like, hey, it’s on TMZ. No one’s bigger than WWE. That’s a big thing for Vince was like, and Cena would always talk about that, like, no one’s bigger than WWE. And they don’t want you to think that either. So like, Oh, you want to go to TMZ and say you guys are married? Well, and that kind of ruins our storyline, which in my opinion, I don’t think it did ruin it, it’s kayfabe it’s day one.
Writing For Others
“But yeah, like you want to do that? Well, watch this. It’s over. You’re breaking up with him today. Do you want to write your own promo? And I’m like, what? And yeah, and they’re like, Okay, great. We’re gonna put you together with a writer. You guys can go out and like write it. Because I was p*ssed, like, I was so mad. I was like, God, we just did all this. There’s no payoff. Like, what do I do?
“I’m on the European tour with them. Like, now am I kicked off the European tour like that’s $15-20,000. Like, I’m just not going on tour. So the whole thing I was like so mad. So Jimmy Jacobs and I sat in at the United States are in the arena. And Jimmy Jacobs was like, not obviously new to wrestling, but I think he was like, newer at WWE. So he was like, Okay, we got to write this. And I just sat there. And I really told him everything.
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