Like you said, just sitting at the sidelines and being like, ‘Alright, maybe another time. I was like, ‘Wow, this is everything’ which was a great opportunity, but then I was injured and then not being able to perform and carry that story anymore. I just always do what is asked of me thinking that I’ll get somewhere and then it’s like no and then going out there and cutting a heartfelt promo to the fans with Ronda Rousey. ‘Oh, you wanna do Titus Worldwide and be a statistician?’ Okay, I never complain, I never ask for things. What am I excited for if it’s always a start and stop? Why can’t I go? Why can’t I run with something? Why can’t I just go out there and show the world, show people that I can do this? It’s always start, stop. “It makes me really emotional because I know I can do this and I hate the start, stop, right? I hate it because it goes deep, it makes me excited. Dana opened up about her time in WWE thus far and discussed the start and stop runs/pushes that she’s had throughout her career. ** Mandy Rose and Dana Brooke sat down with Lilian Garcia to record a new edition of Chasing Glory. It was just, ‘Hey, if we’re gonna extend it, they can extend to the equivalent of whatever you’re paying your top guy’ and they didn’t wanna do it and that’s really the truth.” I said, ‘Take whatever their top paid guy is and figure out what that would equate to in one month’s salary and say hey, if you want me to come in and do this, since I met my contractual obligations, this is what it would take for me to come do it’ and it wasn’t a ridiculous amount of money as what was rumored on the internet. So, all I told her was, ‘Hey, do you wanna work one more shot?’ And I offered her up the psychology. But on top of that, met all the contractual dates that she needed to make. But she needed to move on from that, so because she extended that contract, they were paying her peanuts for one thing. Of course we didn’t know this virus was gonna come along, and the fact of the matter is they had wanted her to extend her contract and do different things and the opportunity that-that experience with IMPACT afforded her was a step in her growth in what she was doing. So I told her that I knew she had reached the pentacle of what she could do with that organization. I mean I’ve got a young daughter that’s 13-years old and whether today they know it’s all a work or not, it’s still not a portrayal I’m real comfortable with. Just I don’t ever like anything that depicts a man being physically violent with a woman. Not because women are incomparable or anything else. But I’m not a fan of that portrayal of men and women in the ring. “I knew from the moment they came up with the idea of making her this intergender, now the World’s Heavyweight Champion that they were going down a dangerous path and they came to our home here in Charlotte and filmed the special with her mom and I about it and I support Tessa because she’s my step-daughter.

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