WWE Superstar Mandy Rose was recently a guest on the Gorilla Position podcast, and addressed a number of topics, including the way she and former tag team partner Sonya Deville have continued their feud despite not having fans in attendance (who would obviously be rooting for Rose and booing Deville if everything was going to plan).
"It’s very hard, and I think where it set in for us was our promo segment I think a couple weeks ago before the matches," Rose started. "The importance of Sonya Deville’s and my relationship really escalated in that promo because of the emotion, and we got to hear the voice of Sonya which we hadn’t really heard previously."
Surprisingly, Rose would go on to explain why not having fans in the building has been a good thing as they've been unable to hijack segments with chants. "With no fans it’s a struggle but I think personally, and some other people have said it about the closed set, for that promo? It was very intimate and it’s almost kind of better that we didn’t hear the ‘what’ chants and you know all that stuff."
"And for us? We would love to be in front of a crowd for sure, but I think it did have a different feel to it in a closed set like that. And we really felt it was [more intimate], you know? Which was good, so we try to get the positive out." That's an interesting point of view, and one which does make sense (it's always frustrating for a great promo to be ruined by fans trying to make themselves part of the show).
What do you guys think?