10 WWE Disasters Rescued With One Tiny Change
7. Mandy Rose Is “Demoted”
Mandy Rose went from flirting with Otis to feuding with Sonya Deville to teaming with Dana Brooke in a going-nowhere-fast women's tag in a heartbeat. That dramatic fall from grace seemed complete when WWE demoted Rose to NXT and tried to repackage her as some world class worker.
That was a bit jarring for fans, but Mandy defied expectations by relishing the challenge and becoming a weekly highlight on the third brand from July 2021 onwards. By October, she'd captured the NXT Women's Title, was leading her own Toxic Attraction faction and refused to let WWE's wobbly 2.0 change negatively affect her.
You've got to admire that effort.
Rose's company career was on course to end in disaster, but she pulled the nose up by putting her head down and working really f*cking hard to improve in-ring. NXT (even with the crap 2.0 branding) was a million times better than teaming with Dana long-term.