For years CJ Perry worked in WWE as Lana, and she spent most of her run with the company standing side by side with her husband as his manager. Vince McMahon did split Lana up from Miro when he was known as Rusev, and it sounds like Vince had some hesitation when it came to the pairing.
CJ Perry recently spoke to Wrestling Inc. about Vince’s take on her working with Miro, and she explained why Vince didn’t think Miro could be a heel if they were working together.
“But I feel like… No, I feel like if I’m able to… It’s just the right story, and I want to create something that becomes undeniably undeniable and has to be brought in even if people are hesitant. And I think with a lot of us, women of my generation and younger being in manager roles, we are literally changing the game as we go. Because 10 years ago, five years ago even, Triple H was giving women a lot of opportunities in this space of being a manager, but Vince was a little bit more traditional and he almost didn’t want me to be paired with Miro, because he’s like, ‘A hot girl can’t be with a heel guy, or he’ll get cheered.'”
“And it’s like, ‘Well, why can’t you be hot and evil?’ This is… For what? I don’t understand. There’s a bunch of people like that in real life. Why can’t we do that?”
