10 Behind-The-Scenes Secrets Revealed By Former WWE Writers
1. The Kenice Mobley Cautionary Tale
Kenice Mobley was, until June 2021, a WWE writer hired not because she was a wrestling fan, but because she was a writer.
This is a policy that has been in place for at least as long as the prior entry, lest anybody be referred to as a "super-mark", but there's a slightly more nuanced debate to be had about Mobley's release following her noting on a podcast that she was neither a big fan nor particularly that informed about the product before getting the job.
Speaking on the Asian Not Asian podcast (with h/t to PostWrestling for the transcript), she said;
"They did not require me to know anything about wrestling, but I do have a background in film production and comedy writing, and they're like, 'Perfect. Come on in.' So I am on the Monday Night RAW team. So there's Monday Night RAW and Friday Night SmackDown, and the people I know that are on it are Bobby — his name is either Bobby Ashley or Bobby Lashley, and I really should know that. He's like this giant black guy, and he and the people who are part of his crew, I know that they call — or at least as of last year, they called themselves The Hurt Business. The Hurt Business. They wear suits, and they're like, 'We're cool."
This caused a storm amongst furious social media zealots, but none of them thought to target any impotent bile at WWE instead. Mobley, evidently talented and credible in her world, simply followed an application process and got a job. She lost that job, seemingly, for speaking about it at all, let alone revealing the company's indifference to product knowledge.
This might have revealed some major flaws in this process, but it was foolish to pretend they hadn't been in place for decades.