One day after losing to Roxanne Perez for the WWE NXT Women’s Championship, Mandy Rose, a WWE superstar, was secretly let go by the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), sparking an internet controversy.
Rose was fired by WWE last week just hours after losing the NXT Women’s Title to Roxanne Perez. This was a change from the initial plan for how the conflict would play out. Rose allegedly lost her job as a consequence of the content she posted on her FanTime account, a members-only membership website similar to OnlyFans.
The content Rose was posting to the online subscription FanTime was cited as the reason the WWE let Rose go. Officials felt that they were in a difficult situation because of the content Rose was posting, considering that the content exceeded the bounds of her WWE contract. The title change wasn’t the initial idea; it was changed at the last minute because Rose was being released that day.
Thank you @WWE_MandyRose #wwenxt pic.twitter.com/Cz57K6uG7u
— Esteban Cardenas (@ECBITW) December 14, 2022
— Mandy (@WWE_MandyRose) December 14, 2022
The WWE Performance Center crowd was chanting “Thank you Mandy!” as she left, the ring. Rose wrote, “Thank you” followed by emojis for “heart,” “folded hands,” “raised hands,” and “heart”, Jacy Jayne, another member of Toxic Attraction, congratulated Rose and urged supporters to treat her with deference she deserved after 413 days as champion. Rose answered with the emoji “face blowing a kiss.”
Fans react to Mandy’s controversy
On Twitter, Fightful confirmed Rose’s departure, saying: “WWE executives felt they were put in a difficult situation based on the things she was putting on her FanTime account. They believed it to be outside the terms of her WWE contract.” Many people had hoped that Toxic Attraction’s leader would soon be called up to the main roster, thus they are very upset that she is now gone.
Mandy Rose left WWE without giving us Damage CTRL vs Toxic Attraction… pic.twitter.com/UvIN68vrUF
— sickoo (@yurrkk_) December 18, 2022
To Mandy Rose and Toxic Attraction: thank you for carrying NXT for over a year. It’s time to save SmackDown now.#WWENXT pic.twitter.com/NywjAMK9Km
— 🎵 Joshi Jamz 🎵 (@GloriousRoyals) December 14, 2022
To Mandy Rose and Toxic Attraction: thank you for carrying NXT for over a year. It’s time to save SmackDown now.#WWENXT pic.twitter.com/NywjAMK9Km
— 🎵 Joshi Jamz 🎵 (@GloriousRoyals) December 14, 2022
Thank you Mandy Rose, well this angle says something #WWENXTpic.twitter.com/B2UZeYdX5r
— Bernardomayne 💯☝🏾 (@bernardomayne) December 14, 2022
Toxic Attraction is NOT the same without Mandy Rose!😒😡 #WWENXT #RehireMandyRose pic.twitter.com/FB98YOWZJ7
— AJ’s University of Nerds and Geeks!❤️⭐️️🌈🌻 (@AjBlueBayBelt) December 21, 2022
Mandy Rose you had an amazing historic run as champion. Please give Mandy all her flowers because she truly deserves them after all the hard work she put in. Truly made me a fan after this run 💫 pic.twitter.com/LPAgzhCdw4
— Kiran 🎄 (@KiranEST_) December 14, 2022
Fans believed that Mandy dropped the title because she would be soon called up to the Main Roster. However, after news of her release, fans expressed their disappointment while appreciating Rose for her 413-day reign as the NXT Women’s Champion.
How much money has Mandy Rose made in FanTime?
Mandy’s agent, Malki Kawa of First Round Management, informed TMZ that since WWE let her go last Wednesday, Mandy had made $500,000 in FanTime subscriptions. In fact, Kawa believes Rose will become a self-made millionaire by 2022 ends.
Mandy Rose’s agent reveals she made $500,000 since leaving WWE less than a week ago 💰 pic.twitter.com/kGpIC4U1BK
— WrestlingWorldCC (@WrestlingWCC) December 20, 2022
Before firing Mandy, WWE reportedly didn’t allow her to remove any content that they, or sponsors, or their partners didn’t like. Mandy’s departure could be linked to a directive issued by Vince McMahon, the company’s former CEO, in the year 2020, ordering all WWE stars to stop using any third-party sites where they were using their names and likenesses in ways that were damaging to the company.
