More On NXT Fashion Meetings Referenced By Former Ember Moon

Athena, the previous Ember Moon, made news lately in talking with Chris Van Vliet when recalling meetings where by WWE encouraged woman wrestlers to gown “sexier.”

“We would have to sit by means of silly conferences about how we might have to dress hot. I recall wanting at anyone else (and laughing). I cater to children. I am not about to use fishnet booty buttcheek shorts because we had a two-hour meeting about how to dress like Mandy Rose. Which is not truthful. Mandy is absolutely phenomenal and an wonderful individual, but not everybody is Mandy Rose. I began looking at this downslope as quickly as Hunter was long gone. For the 1st little bit, we didn’t know why, we just realized he wasn’t there. I bought so indignant. I was sitting down there wondering, ‘I did nothing at all incorrect. I failed to piss off Vince.’ They choose Shotzi absent, Hunter is long gone. ‘You men promised me this would not come about. You promised I wouldn’t be dropped in the shuffle. I went on this shedding streak to enable you fellas out and construct other expertise so I could get a reward,'” she recalled.

Fightful acquired about these meetings quite a few months in the past, but couldn’t get any one on the record that attended them. We are now explained to they ended up NXT meetings under the guise of “vogue consulting” and “fashion support” to perform up the fact that the females on the brand were larger sized than life stars. The company introduced Melanie Pace, a trend expert in to perform the meetings back again in Oct 2021. One particular wrestler in NXT explained that it was a stark contrast for the reason that prior, individuals on the roster were being inspired to possibly just wear their equipment or an obtainable products shirt.

Various customers of the roster expressed displeasure that the conferences took area, and pointed the finger at John Laurinaitis, as they started off using area when he regained electric power. Irrespective of the blame, we have not been ready to verify he experienced everything to do with it.

Just one talent on background instructed us that they were being encouraged to costume equally backstage, and did not outright say that “dressing sexier” was spoken aloud, but implied,

There had been numerous ladies who refused to go to the conferences, which were being viewed as just one of the major modifications subsequent Triple H’s departure.

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